Libraryman Co. is releasing its 11th book, Sol & Luna, by Amsterdam-based photographer Viviane Sassen. It’s a collaboration with Stockholm based men’s clothier Our Legacy. The book is a series of imagery centering around ideas of androgyny and beauty. It’s printed in an edition of 300 numbered copies and is available through the Libraryman website.
Monthly Archives: January 2010
In the Company of People
January 26, 2010 – 11:20 am
The Company of People Group Exhibition opened Saturday at Gallery Space 15 Twenty in LA. Curated by Landon Metz, the show features works by Lizzi Bougatsos, Jonnie Craig, Liam Crockard, Hannah Metz, Landon Metz, Ben Schumacher, Mitchell Spider, Andrew Sutherland and Peter Sutherland. I’m always curious to see people do things that they don’t normally [...]
Changing Paths
January 26, 2010 – 10:17 am
Do you ever feel like what you’re doing with your life is somewhat pointless, and want to completely change everything? Move to Africa, help people? I don’t know if everyone has these impulses, but I definitely do, with some regularity. It’s taken me a number of years to reconcile my love for taking pictures and [...]
Do Larger Silhouettes Really Mean Larger Sizes?
January 25, 2010 – 6:24 pm
photo by Sølve Sundsbø (for V Magazine) The current fascination with plus-size models and the introduction of plus-size models on runways and in fashion spreads seems to send a hopeful message: one of acceptance of the female form at any size, from an industry that often seems obsessed with an unattainable thinness that young girls [...]
Anne Collier’s New Book with Hassla
January 25, 2010 – 4:08 pm
Anne Collier’s new book, Woman With a Camera (35mm), consists of eighteen consecutive film stills taken from the trailer of the 1978 thriller Eyes of Laura Mars, in which Faye Dunaway plays a fashion photographer who experiences visions of real-life murders while on photo shoots. In Collier’s re-photographed presentation, Dunaway slowly lowers her Nikon in [...]
The Future Is Now… and It’s Dark
January 25, 2010 – 3:50 pm
Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Discuss amongst yourselves and comment…
Trifles at St. Mark’s Church
January 25, 2010 – 2:06 pm
Trifles, a 1916 one-act play by Susan Glaspell set at the scene of a bizarre murder in the Midwest in 1900, is being staged by Theater of the Two-headed Calf at St. Mark’s Church. Trifles director Brooke O’Harra and Composer Brendan Connelly team up with the new music ensemble Yarn/Wire to approach Glaspell’s text as [...]
