Tag: Lampoon Issue 24
Daniel King’s road trip from New Jersey to Upstate New York: his images endure
Late photographer Daniel King’s work stands as a document of his approach: quiet, exact, wide open. The road trip wasn’t about reaching a destination
Alex Huanfa Cheng and the green regeneration in Boulogne-Billancourt
Boulogne-Billancourt as a case study for urban rewilding in Europe, where past industrial landscapes are giving way to green regeneration, spontaneous vegetation, and unplanned ecosystems reclaiming built environments
I stare at a location and think about how to make it queer
«I draw some stick people in awkward positions and hope the models can interpret my bad sketches», the way to AdeY brings inner world to life
Musings on porcelain. Ginori’s history and manufacturing facility. Between poetry and powder
From Ginori’s manufacturing facility, exploring the creation of an artisanal product between poetry and powder, and insects over errors
the Honesty imagery: regeneration is possible faster than we ever thought
Adrien Dubost : visual references on the theme of mass farming with a series of images that juxtaposes objects from industrial cultivation with flowers and vegetables
A 55.55 carat diamond: the 100th anniversary of N°5 Chanel talking with Patrice Leguéreau
The Director of Chanel’s Fine Jewelry Creation Studio describes the journey that led him to Collection N°5 Grasse, its jasmine and May rose fields, and the pink, red and yellow...
Female nudity on solitary landscapes: womanhood according to Leif Sebastian
Yearning for a sense of freedom. Permission to Play. Leif Sebastian's approach: «I like to plan but also to be present enough to be informed by my surroundings»
Social, economic, and environmental sustainability – Bvlgari’s Responsibility in Society
Bulgari underscores the essence of culture by advancing female talent, scientists and the youth, fighting the virus and enacting the agenda of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
Lampoon / The honesty Issue – The sensuality of Bonacina 1889’s wood told through the eyes of Eli Craven
It wasn't bamboo, it wasn't wicker. It was rattan, a solid wood that could be curved and shaped was just imported by Bonacina in the late Nineteenth century
Eugenia Errázuriz – From South America to Paris and Biarritz pioneering an aesthetic of subtractions
Eugenia Huici Arguedas de Errázuriz paved the way for the modernist minimalist aesthetic that would be taken up in fashion by Coco Chanel
iPhone, ink printer and photocopy. Andreas Schmidl and Josef Lazo, from the land of nostalgia
«A mid-century vibe. We bought these postcards in California. A classic kind of collage scrapbook thing. Almost like a wishboard based on our longing». Lazoschmidl’s fantasy is a provoking game
Lampoon / Diverso – Lou de Betoly among assemblages of madness and decadent surrealism
«I love this idea of real objects, somehow flattened to be archived. There’s a mix of natural and artificial fibers. Real hair in contrast with the plastic hair of a...
Rid Burman on being Diverso: «Things are abstracted, distorted, not traditionally beautiful»
German Expressionism, Egon Schiele, Modernism, Mirò. Rid Burman's many inspirations draw from a distant, dreamlike world
Post World War II oceanography: how science and politics in the US became intertwined during the Cold War
A military driven mission allowed for an unnecessary production of ignorance of our oceans during the Cold War period – we now face the problems of years of negligence
Seeking scraps of green in modern urban jungles: Petra Valenti and Yosephine Melfi
Milan has many paradoxes: futuristic glass architecture and battered urban spaces: for Paola Valenti and Yosephine Melfi, surviving in modern cities is a question of adaptation - just like a...
Eimear Lynch: «I don’t make characters. I only do portraits»
Irish photographer Eimear Lynch dedicated her summertime probing through intimate lives of young people across a series of portraits, freeing herself from introversion
Adrien Dubost and his odd dialogue between Louis Vuitton luxury and Seventies design
Bravery, the High Jewellery collection – 90 pieces designed by Francesca Amfitheatrof. It took a global three-year search to source the sapphires, emeralds, rubies, diamonds and gemstones used on the...
Roberto Burle Marx: an end to the deforestation of the Amazonian rainforest
In conversation with Irish and Italian professors Gareth Doherty and Barbara Boifava, respectively, on Roberto Burle Marx’s landscapes and urban ideologies
Décor vs Design: can you understand the distinction? A balance to try if your taste is a matter of elegance
Current good taste has eroded an orthodoxy that began to crumble in the Seventies: design is today emptied of its original political militancy – worse still, it can be the...
«We are a mix of different people, easily called a family» – Ruggiero Cafagna and a family album
«My wife Haruka is Japanese, I’m Italian, our daughter Joy is a mix of us with a French touch. Each one has a different story» – Ruggiero Cafagna and his...
Lampoon / Diverso – House doesn’t mean home. Katie Silvester on the meaning of being a family
Katie Silvester and Sam Carder roam around Scotland recounting how the concept of family has changed and how there is nothing more dynamic than human relationships
According to Guen Fiore, sexual tension is a tool against human fragility
Guen Fiore and Rubina Vita Marchiori willing to investigate that eternal feminine that precedes and overcomes every prejudice, showing raw images made of shapes, materials and fabrics
Lampoon, Dance is black: Genis Mitjans’ photographs are an ode to strength
As in a choir, models and professional dancers chosen by Genis Mitjans and Samuel Puyol trying to say everything that a single body cannot say alone. Intertwining bodies to speak...
Lampoon/ Hermès, a Cabinet de Curiosités could showcase an entire universe
Unseen objects, paintings, prints and sculptures. More than one hundred works have been selected for the Montenapoleone store in Milan, one of the strongest retail assets worldwide
‘Domingo a las 4’ by Mateo Arciniegas Huertas: being Latin American away from Latin America
Mateo Arcniegas Huertas, together with ACOMPI displays sixteen photographs of the Latin American immigrant community on the Salgado Playground in Buskwick, where they meet, play soccer and found a way...
Lampoon: The return to an honest existence – Caroline Mackintosh on the art of disobedience
«Behave ourselves, oppress the fire within, stop crying, don’t act so crazy, be quiet, ignore your urges, don’t display so much public affection, don’t be too wild» – freedom lies...
Tuna farming: the billion-dollar-business – talking to Seaspiracy movie directors
Conversations with Lucy and Ali Tabrizi, directors of Seaspiracy, show how local traditions can be used to justify continuation of business-as-usual drastically damaging marine ecosystems
Hot as hell – Eroticism and laziness. Jo Fetto’s out-of-focus naked bodies
«Did I dream that or not? Sometimes I feel lonely in the heart, I guess it’s alright» – Photographer Joe Fetto's shots are a nonsense poem
Lampoon/ Diverso – Wind, boats, lake: in Luca Grottoli’s shots a revised story of Bellini Nautica
«Boats are the toys of adults: thus customers want to be cuddled». From these words of Romano Bellini, photographer Luca Grottoli plays a game of glances on the apparently calm...
Lampoon, Somewhere in between: Jackie Kursel chronicles the boundary of feelings
Photographer Jackie Kursel enjoys exploring the geography of sentiments. A photo narrative as a necessary condition for regaining our awareness
Lampoon / Diverso – Lea and her cat Gaston: a voyeuristic story of a secret Paris
A tangle of images, objects and memories crowd Lea's imagination. Photographers Alex Brunet and Olga Varova delve into human psychology and challenge a woman's confidence
Katerina Jebb: «Fragment by fragment I compose my portraits»
To create her portraits, Katerina Jebb works with scanners – «only the medium of scanography can accurately reproduce the subject matter»
Miss Beige takes humor seriously
A sharp irony that often plays a socially engaged role within Miss Beige’s works. The seriousness of the Milan stock exchange and the rides in Parco Sempione. A contradiction between...
The female gaze on sport has changed according to Florence Mann
In the south of France, the photographer follows the workouts of a rugby team – «I shot the girls both before and after training to reveal the effort on their...
Marie Tomanova depicting the feminine universe
A photographer's escape from the city to feel, understand and get in touch with humanity. Maria Tomanova's pictures are the witness of a sharing of feelings
Kuba Ryniewicz on the moral and political future of the UK
«This project will not be directly political, but it will have a political context». Photographer Kuba Ryniewicz's coast-to-coast journey along Hadrian's Wall is a portrait of the United Kingdom today
Design Chronicles – Flos Chromie, lamps coming out from their homes
The human brain perceives color as reflected light of varying spectral wavelength, associating it with personal and collective emotional responses – a phenomenon known as color-emotion synesthesia
Ashish Gupta: the backbone of the Indian social system is craftsmen
Delhi, India. The setting of local artisans and the combined zeitgeist of east and west by the Indian designer distinguishes his creations by encompassing the additional element of social commitment
Lampoon – Diverso: I have shot unripe vegetables rather than flowers
Photographer Stefano Ortega letting the human being entering into an undefined love/friendship with the soil.«I want the proximity/distance to the subject to be clear»
