Limelight Documentary-Peter Gatien, Michael Alig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1yk143-dRg

DEREK RIDGERS’S BOOK – ’78-87 LONDON YOUTH’

For those that aren’t familiar with his name Derek Ridgers’s is one of the greatest cultural documentarians of recent history. So it is a mark of pride that Roundel has been able to coproduce a book of Derek’s unseen photos alongside Rupert Smyth Studio.

A great deal of care and consideration has gone into the making of the book. The introduction is written by John Maybury who himself was a mainstay of the times the book documents.The book features faces that have gone on to become household names alongside those that have not yet found their place in the pantheon of popular culture. Derek’s approach was ambivalent to fame and more interested in capturing genuine personalities rather than people seeking their 15 minutes.

The London of the book is a place where social norms and boundaries are being challenged; manifesting itself in a fantastic visual array of outfits and makeup. From The Blitz club to the King’s Road there’s a gamut of locations and scenes.

http://www.roundel-london.com/accessories/117-derek-ridgerss-book-78-87-london-youth.html

The man who photographed Britain's youth tribes

Photographer Derek Ridgers' book, 78-87: London Youth, captures some of the capital’s most vibrant subcultures. Theo Merz meets him

“I’ve always been the kind of photographer who’s on the outside, looking in,” he tells me as we sit in a London cafe flicking through 78-87: London Youth, a collection of his work which will be published this week. “It’s a historical document. I’m not going to make any big claims about the time - I recorded how they lived and how they dressed and maybe I lived a little bit vicariously through it.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10605295/The-man-who-photographed-Britains-youth-tribes.html

Where Have All the Bootboys Gone?

http://blogs.arts.ac.uk/london-college-of-communication/2013/10/04/graphic-design-new-exhibition-at-lcc-where-have-all-the-bootboys-gone/

Looking at the historical and cultural origins of skinhead identity, Postgraduate Design at London College of Communication (LCC) present a new exhibition in the Upper Street Gallery which will run from Wednesday 23 October – Friday 1 November.

From 1960s British roots to contemporary global interpretations of the subculture, the show focuses on the visual manifestations of skinhead style – in dress, illustration, graphic design, photography, media and publishing – together with its links to music genres, football, politics and class.

Many subcultures have been exhaustively analysed and pored over by historians, academics and journalists. This level of recuperation has never been applied to the Skinhead movement – the subculture retains a strongly close-knit and largely underground identity, away from the cultural mainstream. This exhibition looks at the graphic language and visual communication of Skinhead identity, from its roots in the late 1960s to today.

The event includes material from collectors of skinhead artefacts, including Toby Mott, Toast, Gavin Watson and Iain Aitch, and contributions from Garry Bushell, Matt Worley, Ana Raposo, Russ Bestley, Tom Vague and Shaun Cole.

Key themes explored include:

• Origins: 1960s Mods and Skinheads

• 1960s Ska, Rocksteady and Bluebeat

• 1970s Suedeheads and Bootboys

• 1970s and 1980s Punk, Hardcore, Oi!, Skunx and Street Punk

• 2 Tone and the Ska Revival

• Class, Politics and Race – Neo Nazis, SHARP and RASH

• Gender and Sexuality

• Media Appropriation

• Contemporary Global Skinhead Identities

A Private View & Symposium on Wednesday 23 October will feature a round table discussion chaired by comic writer Roger Sabin and feature guests including rock-music journalist Garry Bushell, Matt Worley, researcher Ana Raposo and Iain Aitch, journalist and author of ‘We’re British, Innit’.

Further information can be found here.

Tipos Latinos 2012

http://www.tiposlatinos.com/2012/sede.php?id=45

A.H. 20 anos: Ícone jovem dos anos 90

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIwa5_H9aXE&feature=youtu.be

A Vogue Brasil fez um tributo em homenagem aos 20 anos de carreira do estilista Alexandre Herchcovitch. A edição de setembro da revista, que chega às bancas nesta sexta-feira (30), tem um recheio todo especial: um ensaio fotográfico que reuniu algumas das tops e musas inspiradoras da trajetória de Herchcovitch.

No ensaio, que tem cliques do fotógrafo Miro, Alexandre aparece entre nomes de peso comoMarcelle Bittar, Viviane Orth e Alicia Kuczman, além de trazer de volta ao mundo dos editoriais a top Carol Ribeiro e claro, dividir o shooting com sua musa, Geanine Marques.

** Alexandre Herchcovitch is a designer who is able to transform classic into modern, simple into glamorous, easy into complex. His designs have been sent down the runways of New York, Paris, London and São Paulo  Fashion Weeks. Best known for avant-garde designs and eclectic prints, his trademarks skulls became an icon of Brazilian youth in the nineties. Changing the way the world thinks about Brazilian fashion, coupled with his new Japanese store and concessions in New York, Herchcovitch is fast becoming a big and serious name in the fashion world.

http://vogue.globo.com/moda/moda-news/noticia/2013/09/20-vezes-alexandre-herchcovitch-em-video-os-bastidores-de-nosso-shooting.html

Lady Gaga • O YouTube sou eu

http://bravonline.abril.com.br/materia/you-tube-sou-eu

A cantora Lady Gaga é a artista de nosso tempo que melhor entendeu a internet. 
Seus videoclipes têm tantas referências que é preciso acompanhá-los com o dedo na tecla "pause"
por Pedro Alexandre Sanches


Em abril de 2008, uma cantora e compositora nova-iorquina de 22 anos, totalmente obscura, lançou ao grande público e à sorte sua primeira música, Just Dance. Meros dois anos depois, Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, conhecida como Lady Gaga, se consolida como uma das artistas pop mais famosas do mundo. Já vendeu 10 milhões de cópias dos dois álbuns que gravou até agora, além de 25 milhões de exemplares de CDs no formato single. A indústria fonográfica tradicional, porém, não chega a ser a plataforma onde a estrela se dá melhor. No mês passado, seu clipe Bad Romance ultrapassou a marca de 180 milhões de visitas no site YouTube e foi declarado o vídeo mais assistido da história naquela que é a versão internet da velha TV. O segundo colocado, 7 Things, da cantora Miley Cyrus, a Hannah Montana da série adolescente da Disney, contava à mesma época 116 milhões de acessos. Paradigma da era virtual, Lady Gaga também é a primeira artista a vender quatro milhões de downloads apenas de seus dois sucessos iniciais, Just Dance e Poker Face. 


Uma pergunta clássica do pop volta com tudo em Lady Gaga: até que ponto ela é real, até que ponto foi artificialmente fabricada? É esfinge difícil de decifrar, mas, não, Lady Gaga não brotou por geração espontânea, muito ao contrário. Na busca obsessiva por uma carreira musical, circulou algum tempo pelas beiradas da indústria fonográfica americana.