Today is International Jazz Day! Here are 10 of my favourite Jazz musicians throughout the decades. I hope you joins in the celebrations!
Thelonious Monk
John Coltrane
Dizzy Gillespie
Wes Montgmery
Miles Davies
Chet Baker
Art Blakey Quintet
Charles Mingus
Horace Silver
Cannoball Adderley
John Deakin was an English photographer, best known for his work centered around members of Francis Bacon’s Soho inner circle at the legendary private members’ club, The Colony Room.
Francis Bacon, 1952
William Turnbull, 1951
Keith Vaughan, 1951
Barbara Hepworth, 1952
Oliver Bernard, 1952
The Colony Room School. L-R: Timothy Behrens, Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Michael Andrews at Wheeler’s, 1962
George Dyer, 1964
John Deakin: Bruce Bernard, Jeffrey Bernard
Francis Bacon and George Dyer, 1960s
Girl in Cafe, late 1950s
Tony Abbro, Abbro and Varriano, newsagents, Dean Street, Soho, 1961
Roger Mayne, 1957
J.P. Donleavy, 1950s
Under the Influence: John Deakin and the Lure of Soho, the exhibition currently on show at The Photographer’s Gallery, will give you a glimpse of Soho’s streets and bohemian characters in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Images via The Photographer’s Gallery and http://www.filmsnotdead.com/
Don’t miss your chance to see TOY live at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Sat 26 April.
“Vogue Patterns“, the eye-popping editorial for Vogue Italia’s December 2007 issue, photographed by Steven Merisel.
The models featured are: Hanne Gaby Odiele, Kinga Rajzak, Lara Stone, Maryna Linchuk and Meghan Collison.
Images via minimal exposition
In 2013, Artist Robert Wechsler was commissioned by the The New Yorker to create a series of coin sculptures for their October 14th money-themed edition. Wechsler used a jeweler’s saw to cut precise notches in coins from various currencies and then joined them together in several geometric forms.
Tadao Ando is a Japanese self-taught architect whose approach to architecture and landscape was categorized by architectural historian Francesco Dal Co as “critical regionalism”.
Church of the Light, Ibaragi,Osaka, 1989
Koshino House, Ashiya, Hyogo
Water Temple, Awaji, Hyogo, 1991
