Round Up Week of July 12
/The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries:
1) Women Who Shaped Modern Photography
© The New York Times, Tsuneko Sasamoto/Japan Professional Photographers Society
“Female authorship gives meaning to the images in “The New Woman Behind the Camera” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an inspired and inspiring exhibition.”
© Hyperallergic, From left to right, details from: Carolyn Mae Lassiter "A Proud Family"; Ian Kuali’i "'Ike Maka Series"; Alberto Zalma "Pancho Villa"
2) View Work by Contemporary Santa Fe Artists in the Online Exhibition Intersections
“Santa Fe art organizations Vital Spaces, MAIDA, and Warehouse 21 collaborated on this interactive experience highlighting connections between local artists.”
© Aperture, Elliott Erwitt, Provence, France, 1955
3) 10 Photographers on Dreams of Escape
“The latest Magnum Square Print Sale brings together images that represent the things we take solace in—and the ways we make our getaway.”
© CNN style, Anthony Asis/Eli Zaelo
4) Meet the South African Singer Taking On China’s Pop Scene
“For patrons of Hong Kong's bars and speakeasies, Eli Zaelo probably looks familiar. Pre-Covid, the 27-year-old South African singer was a fixture in Hong Kong's modest live music scene, performing jazz, blues and R&B tracks in English at venues across the city.
But now, Zaelo has her sights set on a growing market: earlier this year, she released an R&B ballad in Mandarin, "Aiqing Gushi" ("Stories About Love"). She says that makes her the first Black female artist to release an original track in a Chinese-language.”
5) Italian Entrepreneur Beatrice Trussardi Is Launching a Nomadic Art Foundation With a Dramatic Installation Atop the Swiss Alps
© Mountain Hut in Val Fex, Engadin. Site of Pawel Althamer’s project for the Beatrice Trussardi Foundation (2021). Courtesy Beatrice Trussardi Foundation. Photo by Marco De Scalz
“If you want to see the first project from the new Beatrice Trussardi Foundation, you will need to hike up the Swiss Alps and into a south-facing valley called Val Fex in the Engadin. You can also take a horse-drawn carriage, but no cars are allowed.
Once you arrive, a poignant installation by Polish artist Paweł Althamer will be waiting for you—the commissioned work, made from a variety of natural materials, is tucked away in a 17th-century mountain hut.”
© dezeen, photo by Iwan Baan
6) Iwan Baan photographs Frank Gehry's Luma Arles tower
“Clad in 11,000 irregularly arranged stainless steel panels, the 56-metre-high tower was designed to be a landmark for the 27-acre cultural campus, which was commissioned by Swiss collector Maja Hoffmann, founder of Luma Foundation.
As well as being a marker for the site and a lookout tower, the building contains exhibition galleries, archives, a library, offices, seminar rooms and a cafe.”