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Phillip Toledano

I met Phillip Toledano a couple of weeks ago, and although I'd recently seen his project "America the Gift Shop" I was somehow more drawn to his bespoke outfit than the brilliance of his work; it is brilliant though, in the British sense - not shiny, but clever. Between meeting Mr. Phillip and now, I've inadvertently soiled his business card.

Business card 2009, Design © Phillip Toledano

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Catherine Chalmers

Catherine Chalmers makes gorgeous photographs of things that make us squeamish. In "American Cockroach" she shows us the hideous creature that seems universally to repel humans (I think she gets them back in "Executions"). Close-up images of bugs eating in "Food Chain" simply demonstrate what naturally goes on around us all the time but somehow we find it disgusting. There are other fascinating projects and she also shoots video - "Safari" is absolutely worth 7 minutes of your time, not least of all to see the stick insects trying to cope in the rain. Catherine is off to Costa Rica to record leaf cutter ants for a month, I'll hope to show something of them down the road.

Frog Eating a Praying Mantis © Catherine Chalmers

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Eric Ogden

Eric Ogden donated a print of this portrait of Penelope Cruz for the Aperture Foundation's annual fund-raiser yesterday. Eric is a sweet and unassuming guy whose filmic photography is simply gorgeous. He was recently selected as one of only eleven photographers to be part of USA Network's "Character Project". This blog does his work no justice so I suggest a visit to his sexy website.

Penelope Cruz © Eric Ogden

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Bow Wow Wow by Andy Earl

The Brooklyn Museum's rock photography exhibition opened last night. It was a packed evening, Blondie performed, and hot dogs were served. Apparently, hot dogs are somehow "rock and roll" but all I know is they stink and are full of squirrel's innards. Unless they're kosher. Anyway, until I saw the show I didn't know that Andy Earl was the photographer of this homage to "Le déjeuner sur l'herbe" starring Bow Wow Wow, a band I adored. The guys are wearing Vivienne Westwood, as was I last night, 27 years later. Andy was represented by my agency for a while in the 90s, and is a lovely bloke and a great photographer with a brilliant music archive.

Bow Wow Wow © Andy Earl

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Burlesque, Bobbé-style

Dottie Lux here is just one of several New York-based performers that Leland Bobbé has photographed and interviewed for his neo-burlesque book project. There is something refreshing about seeing real women, and men, of all shapes and sizes getting their kit off and their feathers on and getting sexy on stage - despite what Mayor Giuliani thought when he 'cleaned up' NYC and much of the scene was lost. Well, it's back, and Leland brings it to us in all its glory; he has already won a gold award in the Graphis Photography Annual Competition for 2010 with this body of work and the book is yet to come. Witness the fabulous and the disturbing (hello, Tigger!)

Dottie Lux © Leland Bobbé

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Phillips De Pury Music Auction

The London auction house is having a 'Music' special in November. They put out a call for consignments but were so non-specific that no-one knew what to submit. They decided they wanted well known subjects, at high price points. Apparently they were overwhelmed by pictures of the Rolling Stones... surprise. I'm sure this portrait of Ginger Baker would have been snapped up.

Ginger Baker, 1990 © Abe Frajndlich

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Who Shot What?

Although the 'Who Shot Rock' show opening at the Brooklyn Museum next week promises to be a corker, sadly missing from the edit is Janette Beckman. Many of JB's images are considered iconic, not least of all this one of hip-hop legends Run DMC. You can play "I know that photo!" on Janette's music site.

Run DMC, Hollis, Queens 1984 © Janette Beckman

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Rachel Papo wins a Lucie

ClampArt artist Rachel Papo is the winner of the 2009 'Deeper Perspective Photographer of the Year' Lucie Award for her project on young Israeli women serving their mandatory military duty, 'Serial No. 3817131'. Sadly, there's not much by way of images from this year's International Photography Awards competition winners on the Lucies website - just an un-navigatable video of stills. Which is odd.

Rachel thanked Mr. Clamp upon receiving her award, saying he is the nicest guy in the business. Which is nice.

Talking to Family, from Serial No. 3817131 © Rachel Papo

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Deserted States of America

Thanks to Rob Hann, a fellow Englishman who loves the desert, for this picture reflecting my mood today. Feature story to come.

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Abe Frajndlich

October 15th, 2009 is the opening night of Abe's show at Nathalia Laue in Frankfurt should you find yourself in Germany - go for this show and stay for the Book Fair! As well as this exhibition, Abe is doing an awful lot of printing (the poor man spent August in the darkroom) and working on his book 'Penelope's Hungry Eyes: Portraits of the Master Photographers'.

Brooklyn Bridge infrared, 1984 © Abe Frajndlich

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