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Cover Photo: Ginny Mangrum, Overpass, Photograph, 44 x 60 Inches
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Fariba Ameri
The Inspiration of Jeff LaDow
Ginny Mangrum
A Convincing Cover Story
Inroads
Art Calendar
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The Inspiration of Jeff LaDow
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Ginny Mangrum
Into The Void
“ ... I was struck cold each time with this
heavy weight of presence and sadness
of the absence. I have never looked at
spaces the same since then ... ”
per se, but I suppose that is
that photographs tell the
trying to capture the truth.
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pretentious, and dripping in a curious
Ginny Mangrum: Certainly the
Ginny Mangrum
commentary.
photography class. My parents used to let
painting class, and I seriously contemplated
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remember being consciously visually
Ginny Mangrum
having pretty things around me in their
stimulated by bright lights and can tell you
to use it as my style, I needed to push it to its
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Parking Lot
- Tim Broughton
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Ginny Mangrum
and dream these concepts up, they evolved
based on the decisions I made in my
academic process discussed previously.
evolved based on personal loss and
isolations that I have experienced. They
mediums
that no
one ever
sees
though. I
also use
the iPhone
cameras
and apps
mind and
their
relationship
to our busy
spaces that
connection
to the urban
environment.
etc..., and the sensations I experienced
has been
a good
same since then.
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engrained in me.
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be very challenging, have you ever thought
this, but I can save my money because I
iPhonography and has been approved by
Ginny Mangrum
I recently have been lusting over the
going to have its place in photography.
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so to photograph, I am attracted to its
Ginny Mangrum
anyone around me. I particularly get excited
about shooting at night. It invigorates
Ginny Mangrum
as many details as possible such as tonal
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Ginny Mangrum: Yes, it is. I simply
gallery
more relevant than examining the spaces
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Have your Say...
achieved international applause through his
Where the reader becomes the writer
A Convincing Cover Story
in turn created the banana cover synonymous
The Evolution of Album Art
designed by Hipgosis for Pink Floyd
has upon our perception and expectations.
the banana, the artist unashamedly printed
his name. Whether he made this decision out
on external aesthetics to understand
Rapper Jay Z in 2013
Beneath the sticker of Warhol’s cover design
to the band, one included a single-prism that
and the music behind it provide perhaps
Thriller. It comes as no surprise then, that
cases, listeners turn to cover design as
reality. When the design team presented the
options, each member unanimously chose
the music industry has indeed eliminated
individual connection to the sound. In every
4th
psychedelic composition and space-aged
imagery visually captured a sound that
spurred by their success, Thorgerson and
ago. Throughout the late nineteenth- and
approached Hipgnosis to design the cover
aesthetic. Though Hipgnosis may not be a
has also pushed in the opposite direction.
sold records in single color sleeves or in
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INROADS
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Century it is
becoming a much greater
Against All Odds!
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These are bright and talented
is addressing this problem
that helps young people
increase ethnically diverse employees in corporate management
educating, and mentoring
simultaneously enthusing,
partnerships, companies to
create opportunities that result
mentor and mentee.
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ART CALENDAR
July 2013
Argentina
Malba Gallery
Canada
Toronto, Canada
Mesopotamia: Inventing our World
the artist moved to a psychiatric hospital
Belgium
Giorgio Morandi
United Kingdom
Australia
Stradivarius
Jeff Wall
United Kingdom
Museum)
Chagall: Modern Master
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ART CALENDAR
July 2013
China
documenting his architectural achievements,
Andy Warhol: 15 Minutes Eternal
photography, video and sculpture by Yto
more iconoclastic or humorous portraits by
complementary sculptures and paintings,
Italy
400 paintings, photographs, screenprints,
La Primavera del Rinascimento: La
Scultura e le Arti a Firenze, 1400-60
Israel
sculpture, the curators argue. Monumental
Jerusalem, Israel
The Israel Museum
Herod the Great: The King’s Final Journey
Germany
France
Cross-Border: Künstlerinnen der
Gegenwart aus dem Arabischen
Mittelmeerraum
Increasing attention has recently been paid
Keith Haring: The Political Line
paintings] and to understand the symbols
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ART CALENDAR
July 2013
Sweden
the century, the carved portrait heralded
Moderna Museet
Niki de Saint Phalle: The Girl, the Monster
and the Goddess
United States
Netherlands
Haarlem, Netherlands
United States
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes,
1909–29: When Art Danced with Music
Eye to Eye With Rembrandt, Rubens and
Titian
Urs Fischer
Taiwan
Joan Miró. Women, Birds, Stars.
shapes and colors observed around him,
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