Round Up of the Week of Feb 17
/The Producer’s picks for this week’s news relevant to the photography, art, design and production industries
A Mother and Daughter’s Joint Becoming
Magdalena Wywrot’s moody series “Pestka” captures eleven years in the life that she made with her only child, Barbara.
Jet Swan describes her uncanny portraiture as “body work”
Slowly but surely becoming a star, the photographer took an unusual route into photography and maintains an idiosyncratic approach to commissions.
Prettiness Is Political for Marie Laurencin
“Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses?” Marie Laurencin once told a Time magazine reporter.
Finding a Home Among the Punks
In the early 1980s, Gail Butensky, then an undergraduate at Northwestern University, in Chicago, started taking photographs of punk bands for the Daily Northwestern.
Writing in The Sand by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen
Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen’s Writing in the Sand (Published by Dewi Lewis) is a vibrant and deeply human exploration of life along the beaches of North East England.
