BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Bermondsey Project Space - ECPv6.0.11//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://project-space.london X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Bermondsey Project Space REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20170101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170517T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170610T180000 DTSTAMP:20260619T151316 CREATED:20170405T152303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190615T152209Z UID:4512-1495018800-1497117600@project-space.london SUMMARY:Camera Press at 70 - A Lifetime in Pictures DESCRIPTION:Camera Press at 70 – A Lifetime in Pictures \nCurated by Emma Blau \nInternationally renowned photographic agency Camera Press celebrates its 70th anniversary this year with a special exhibition entitled ‘Camera Press at 70 – A Lifetime in Pictures’ which will coincide with Photo London 2017. Drawing on an unparalleled collection of images\, and featuring work by some of the most iconic figures in the industry\, this exhibition offers a fascinating insight into photography from the 1940s to the present day. \nOn display will be the work of photographic legends such as Yousuf Karsh\, who was the first photographer signed to the agency\, Cecil Beaton\, Baron and Jane Bown through to contemporary names that include John Swannell\, Jason Bell\, Jillian Edelstein\, Chris Floyd and Laura Pannack. \nCamera Press was founded in London in 1947\, the same year that the young Princess Elizabeth wed Prince Philip. The very first photographs distributed by the agency were of the wedding of the future Queen and the link to official royal photography has continued to the present day: special portraits of Princess Diana\, The Queen’s Jubilee and the christening of Prince George will all feature in the show. \nThe British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is also celebrating its 70th anniversary this year and Camera Press is proud to represent their exclusive portrait portfolio; a selection of these stunning images will shine a light on leading actors from the worlds of TV and film. \nThe exhibition will also include photographs by three generations of the Blau Family: founder Tom Blau\, his son Jon and granddaughter Emma. \n\n\n\n\nEstrellita Karsh: In 1947 Tom Blau invited Yousuf to be Camera Press’ first contributing photographer; at that time both were on the threshold of ever greater careers: Karsh as the photographer of the great men and women of the 20th Century and Tom Blau as the head of the prestigious photo agency; over the years both grew together in friendship and in achievement. Today\, though my husband and Tom are no longer with us\, that bond has strengthened\, and the warmth and dedication my husband witnessed in the new agency all those years ago continues to flourish thanks to Camera Press’ expert and loyal staff\, and Tom Blau’s family. I could not hope for any better custodians of the Karsh legacy and I wish them every success for the future. \nEmma Blau: Celebrating our 70th anniversary is a real milestone: Camera Press remains not only family owned but also one of the last independent photographic agencies in existence. We are indebted to the photographers whose work Camera Press has represented over the past seven decades; it is they who are ultimately responsible for our continued success in the photographic industry. Their exceptional images\, both past and present\, which are showcased in this exhibition have played a significant part in shaping the history of photography. Camera Press is very proud of our role in contributing to the landscape of modern and contemporary photography since being founded by my grandfather Tom Blau in 1947. \nExhibition Info \nThe photographs in this exhibition reveal the changing trends in portrait photography as well as the evolution of the role of celebrities and distinguished public figures over the last 70 years. \nThe more formal studio portraits of the 1940s such as Karsh’s iconic bulldog shot of Winston Churchill are followed by 1950s Hollywood glamour epitomized by stars such as Marilyn Monroe. The swinging Sixties heralds the influence of a more relaxed\, intimate\, documentry-style of photography\, as seen in Jacques Lowe’s seminal photographs of JFK and the work of one of the world’s first paparazzi\, Elio Sorci. This is then contrasted with the gritty social-realism of punk and the arrival of Margaret Thatcher in the 1970s. \nWhilst the flamboyant 80s saw pop superstars take centre stage with the birth of MTV-culture; the 90s was the decade of cool Britannia\, of Brit Pop heroes Oasis and Blur and the rise of supermodels and ‘It Girls’. Noughties images of British icons Amy Winehouse\, and Dames Judi Dench and Helen Mirren round off the exhibition in tandem with many of the biggest names in sport\, entertainment and fashion. \nContextualizing this impressive collection of portraiture are arresting social documentary images from Camera Press’ archives\, as well as a fascinating visual exploration of fashion through the decades. \nAbout Camera Press\nCamera Press was founded in London in 1947 by Tom Blau\, a Jewish Hungarian photographer and reporter born in Berlin and exiled from Nazi Germany in 1935. It is one of the world’s leading independent picture agencies with a long and distinguished history. The agency represents the work of iconic photographers as well as modern masters. Its archive covers portraiture\, past and present\, news and entertainment\, as well as music and fashion. \nAbout BAFTA\nThe British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports\, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image by identifying and rewarding excellence\, inspiring practitioners and benefiting the public.\nBAFTA has been building a collection of bespoke portraiture and reportage photography since 2007\, working with leading international photographers to produce some of the finest images of talent working in the moving image industries and to document their world-renowned Awards ceremonies\nIn addition to its Awards ceremonies\, BAFTA has a year-round programme of learning events and initiatives – featuring workshops\, masterclasses\, scholarships\, lectures and mentoring schemes – in the UK\, USA and Asia; it offers unique access to the world’s most inspiring talent and connects with a global audience of all ages and backgrounds. BAFTA relies on income from membership subscriptions\, individual donations\, trusts\, foundations and corporate partnerships to support its ongoing outreach work. To access the best creative minds in film\, television and games production. \nAbout Art Bermondsey Project Space\nA non-profit independent gallery sponsored by Olympus. The exhibition is part of their Cultural Initiative Programme\, in association with State Magazine\, providing a platform for fresh ideas in the visual arts and embracing artists from all cultures. Three gallery spaces\, three floors\, across three thousand square feet of a former 19th Century paper manufacturers with a dedicated video screening suite – Art Bermondsey Project Space is one of London’s most dynamic non- profit art spaces. \nFOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:\nART BERMONDSEY PROJECT SPACE:\nSerenella Martufi | sm@project-space.london | +44 (0) 203 441 5152\nINTERVIEW REQUESTS:\nJacqui Wald | j.wald@camerapress.com | +44 (0)20 7940 9123 URL:https://project-space.london/event/camera-press-at-70-a-lifetime-in-pictures LOCATION:Gallery 1 + 2\, 183-185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CP_Karsh_revised-credit_web.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170613T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170623T180000 DTSTAMP:20260619T151316 CREATED:20170518T154321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170518T154321Z UID:6518-1497351600-1498240800@project-space.london SUMMARY:The Douglas Brothers | SEE - SAW DESCRIPTION:The Douglas Brothers \nSEE/SAW \nThe collaborative accomplishments of double visionaries \n13-24 JUNE \n\n\n\nLOST ICONS TO GO ON EXHIBITION THIS SUMMER \nRecovered historical portraits of leading British cultural figures – including Dame Judi Dench\, Daniel-Day Lewis\, Damon Albarn\, Kenneth Branagh\, Ronnie Wood and Morrissey – will be exhibited in London in June. \nThe photographs\, taken by The Douglas Brothers\, were lost for over 20 years. Some have never been seen before. They will go on show for the first time this summer. \nThe Douglas Brothers – real-life siblings Stuart and Andrew – spent a decade photograph leading figures from the worlds of art\, literature\, film\, music\, sport and fashion. \nThe Douglas Brothers signature style is considered highly influential. Sabina Gaskot-Gill from the National Portrait Gallery described it as “work that shaped the course of photography for a decade.” \nAfter the brothers left the UK to make films\, their stills work sat gathering dust for two decades in a disused storage unit and came very close to being lost forever. \nThe Douglas Brothers distinctive image making extended beyond portraiture and into abstract\, collage\, still-life\, reportage\, nudes and fashion. \nPhotos spanning the entire spectrum of this remarkable body of work will go on show at Art Bermondsey Project Space in London on June 15th in a show entitled SEE/SAW. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n[row][one_col] \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n[/one_col][/row] URL:https://project-space.london/event/douglas-brothers-see-saw-2-2 LOCATION:Gallery 1 + 2\, 183-185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DouglasBrothersEflyer.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170627T110000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170708T180000 DTSTAMP:20260619T151316 CREATED:20170607T125845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T125845Z UID:6520-1498561200-1499536800@project-space.london SUMMARY:Marilyn Stafford | Stories in Pictures 1950 - 1960 DESCRIPTION:Lucy Bell Fine Art Presents\nMarilyn Stafford\nStories in Pictures\n1950-1960\n“I have always been fond of stories\, listening to them\, telling them\, performing them\, singing them. One way or another my life has been that of an observer and story teller” \nPhoto-journalist Marilyn Stafford\, who now lives in West Sussex\, was born in Cleveland Ohio\, in 1925. She originally trained as an actress\, at the age of 7 she was scouted to train at the Cleveland Play House Theatre\, along with big names like Paul Newman. She then studied drama at university and went to New York to act\, finding work off Broadway and in television. \nHer photographic career began in New York in 1948 when she was asked to photograph Albert Einstein for friends who were making a documentary about him. \n“The director gave me a camera and said you are going to be the photographer. I said I didn’t know how to take pictures. I had only taken them on a Brownie. So\, in the car from New York to New Jersey\, I learned how to use it.” \nThis single experience set her on her future path. She went on to assist Francesco Scavullo\, a controversial fashion photographer whose work has been published widely including in Vogue and Cosmopolitan \n“I was not really interested in that kind of photography\, but that was where you could earn a living as a woman. I was interested in telling stories in pictures and showing the world to people as I saw it\, maybe to make them see something and then act on it or enjoy it.” \nIn December 1948 Marilyn moved to Paris briefly singing with an ensemble at Chez Carrère near the Champs Elysees\, and photographing for a Fashion PR Company. At the club she met Edith Piaf and also became friends with Robert Capa and during this period she was also introduced by her life-long friend the Indian writer Mulk Raj Anand to Henri Cartier-Bresson who encouraged her photographic career. \n“I often went out photographing with Cartier-Bresson – the time I photographed him\, was at a household and appliance exhibition at the Grand Palais” \nMarilyn photographed the neighbourhoods of the Bastille and Boulogne-Billancourt and her images of children from Cité Lesage-Bullourde near the Place de la Bastille are a very rare insight into the street children living in one of the city’s notorious slums. Demolished in 1984\, it is now the site of the Paris Opera Bastille. Some of the negatives have been lost\, but thanks to modern technology Robin Bell the renowned darkroom printer has created new negs and printed these historically important images for the first time in 67 years\, creating an edition of silver gelatin prints. \n“I did these pictures long before I met Cartier-Bresson\, I never showed them to him as I was very shy\, but I felt honoured that he let me tag along\, it was only after taking the Algerian pictures that I prevailed on him to help me select the pictures\, that I would then send over to the Observer. These became the first front page pictures I had published” \nIn 1958 Marilyn Stafford travelled to Tunisia to document the Algerian refugees fleeing France’s ‘Scorched Earth’ attacks. Marilyn was 5 months pregnant when she took these pictures. \n“It was harrowing and as far as I am concerned\, the picture I loved most is of a refugee mother holding this poor little infant. That image meant more than anything else. I wanted to do a story about the refugees\, I believe that documentary work should raise social issues\, and was very happy when other photographers and journalists were commissioned to go out and record the situation\, as I had brought the issue to wider attention” \nThe exhibition also features Marilyn’s pioneering photographs\, where\, for the first time\, she took models out of the studio and chic salons into the streets of Paris\, using a photo-documentary style to her fashion shots. In the mid-sixties Marilyn Stafford settled in London\, where\, along with Fay Godwin\, Sally Soames\, and Jane Bown \, she helped pave the way for future female photographers working on Fleet Street. Marilyn Staffords commitment to supporting female documentary photographers continues today with the launch of the Marilyn Stafford FotoReportage Award Launched in Spring 2017 in Association with FotoDocument. \nRobin Bell who has printed for many of the world’s top photographers and archives\, including Bill Brandt\, Norman Parkinson\, Ernst Haas and David Bailey says of the work \n“I often feel lucky to be doing the thing that I do and sometimes I get double lucky; this is one of those occasions. Lucy and Marilyn invited me to curate and print approximately 40 images\, some of the chosen images no longer have negs\, but thanks to a combination of new and old technology\, modern silver gelatin prints have been made. Marilyn’s pictures have warmth\, perception\, humour and technical skill and do the trick that all good photos do\, which is transport one to another world and time\, evoking nostalgia\, surprise \,empathy and wonder in equal measure.” URL:https://project-space.london/event/marilyn-stafford-stories-in-pictures-1950-1960-2 LOCATION:Gallery 2\, 183 - 185 Bermondsey Street\, London\, SE1 3UW\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://project-space.london/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/CITE-LESAGE-PARIS-1950-1.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR