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Psychedelic club visuals worth raving about – in pictures | Art and design

Kevin Foakes says the world of light wheels and projection art opened up to him when he discovered a book called Psychedelic Art in his college library during the 1980s. “I DJ under the name Further with my friend Pete Williams and we mix wheels, slides and video to create a shifting collage that turns a room into a living, fluctuating artwork.” Now he has created his own book, Wheels of Light, a history of British psychedelic club visuals. “We’ve all…

‘He caught us with our trousers down’: Jim Marshall’s Rolling Stones photographs

At a new exhibit at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, photographer Jim Marshall’s intimate and revealing pictures of the Rolling Stones in 1972 show them letting off steam backstage and performing with dynamism onstage. The Rolling Stones 1972: Photographs by Jim Marshall will be on show until June 2023 Continue reading... At a new exhibit at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, photographer Jim Marshall’s intimate and revealing pictures of the Rolling Stones in 1972 show them letting off steam backstage and performing…

From Blur to big beat! Photographing the 90s and beyond – in pictures

Featuring Frankie Knuckles, Geri Halliwell and Goldie, a new book focuses on the icons and pioneers of the 90s and 00s music scene Continue reading... Featuring Frankie Knuckles, Geri Halliwell and Goldie, a new book focuses on the icons and pioneers of the 90s and 00s music scene Continue reading... FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified.…

Mean, moody and magnificent: film noir studio portraits – in pictures | Film

The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)Lawrence Tierney (1919-2002), was a legendary Hollywood tough guy, on and off the screen, and was notorious for his frequent, well-publicised barroom brawls, including being stabbed in 1973. He was best known as the title character in Dillinger (1945) and Born to Kill (1947). Tierney is pictured here as Steve Morgan, the brutal killer, in a studio portrait for The Devil Thumbs a Ride. His career was rejuvenated in 1992 when Quentin Tarantino cast him as…

George, Eric and me: Pattie Boyd on her favourite images – in pictures | Art and design

First modelling shoot by Anthony Norris, 1962Boyd’s archive features photographs from her early career, from Vogue to Vanity Fair, and marks fashion’s major shift from black and white postwar demure to wide-eyed, mini-skirted psychedelia, with Boyd’s place at the heart of 60s culture. ‘It was like a zeitgeist, we were no longer twin sets and pearls; we were forging ahead, going through the tunnel knowing there’s something at the other end’…

Can you feel the lens tonight? Elton John’s favourite Peter Hujar shots – in pictures | Art and design

Peggy Lee, 1974His subjects also included dancers, writers, artists and composers, such as Edgar Winter, Peggy Lee, Susan Sontag, Fran Lebowitz and Robert Wilson. Many of these portraits were included in his first and only book published during his lifetime, Portraits in Life and Death, released in 1976. ‘I make uncomplicated, direct photographs of complicated and difficult subjects,’ Hujar said. ‘I photograph those who push themselves to any extreme and people who cling to the…

Mags power! Booze and fisticuffs with the music press – in pictures | Music

The Face, No 7, November 1980‘A turning point for Nick Logan’s six month-old style bible arrived with this issue’s eight-page feature flagged The Cult With No Name, in which Robert Elms surveyed the peacock art students, wannabe fashion designers, struggling musicians and dandy ne’er-do-wells emerging from London’s The Blitz nightspot to create New Romantic. Soon, many of those featured – including Boy George, Marilyn, Spandau Ballet, Sade and Steve Strange – became chart-topping…

‘Sometimes they’d lick each other’: on the road with Fat White Family – in pictures | Art and design

The 1,700 mile trek from Seattle, Washington to Minneapolis, Minnesota‘The drive was so long between shows that we decided to break it up with a bit of sightseeing. As I recall, the band weren’t particularly impressed by the size of the presidential heads. In fairness, they’re not quite as grand in person as you expect them to be’ Photograph: Duncan Stafford…