Photography & Art – Tickle Your Fancy #48
Welcome back to our forty eighth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art.
Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site.
We really hope you enjoy these articles over the weekend…
Independence Day, 4 July, in Culture – In Pictures
GEORGE WASHINGTON, the Founding Father of America, and the first President, is remembered each fourth of July and has been honoured ever since gaining independence on July 4, 1776 in his role as Commander-in-chief. He is still on US currency and postage, was the reason for the Washington Monument and was etched forever in stone at the Mount Rushmore Memorial.
Picture: Getty
Aranka Israni’s ‘Nudes’ Exhibition
Aranka Israni‘s first solo exhibition debuts in conjunction with Arles 2015, Les Rencontres de la Photographie, the international photography festival renowned for unveiling new work. For Aranka—who withdrew from the art world seven years ago seeking to imbue her practice with greater depth—the show marks a significant return. This show, “Nudes,” is an homage to, and an expansion of, the artistic accord formed with the festival’s founder, noted master of light and form, Lucien Clergue.
“Amy,” Back from Black
A new documentary about Amy Winehouse is, to a dismal degree, a compilation of all those who screwed her up and dragged her down.
If you are late for “Amy,” a new documentary about Amy Winehouse, you will miss her at her blithest. The year is 1998, and she is fifteen, fooling around with friends. They sing “Happy Birthday” together, but the other voices soon make way for hers: an extraordinary sound, as effortless as a choirboy’s, and clearly God-given, not that you could imagine it in church. It would snuff out all the candles. Already the tone is illicitly rich and strong, like hot chocolate fortified with rum, and you can’t help wondering, of this dark-eyed girl with a gift: What the devil will become of her?
Harper Lee: the inside story of the greatest comeback in literature
“I am still alive, although very quiet”, Harper Lee. This month, the To Kill a Mockingbird author will break her 55-year silence with Go Set a Watchman. But who is really behind the new novel?
Brigitte Lacombe’s photos expose the human side of celebrity – in pictures
Brigitte Lacombe is having a moment: for the first time in the photographer’s 40-year career, some of her most celebrated photographs are on display at Phillips in New York, and a new portrait of one of her favorite subjects, Meryl Streep, is the cover of NeueJournal, a magazine that launches on Thursday,
Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie on the set of The Wolf of Wall Street, in Brooklyn, 2012
Photograph: Brigitte Lacombe
Toni Morrison: ‘The present is not good. All the hawks are screaming’
Toni Morrison: ‘I think my sexual scenes are the best. They’re fabulous because I assume that the reader’s sex is sexier than mine. I’m not going to get clinical about it.’ Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
