Eyewitness, Royal Academy, London
Wednesday 29 June 2011
If, before visiting this exhibition, you don't have a strong sense of 20th-century Hungarian photography, that is probably because the most important photographers from Hungary were actually positioned across the globe, at the helms of their various practices – fashion, portraiture, documentary, conceptual and photojournalism – in New York, Paris, London and other cities. This instructive exhibition makes the case that the history of photography was shaped to a large degree by practitioners from Hungary, focusing on five key players; and it functions both as an eyewitness history of the 20th century told through images and the tracing of a brave experimental artistic medium. So, whilst László Moholy-Nagy was experimenting with abstract photography at the Bauhaus, Robert Capa was capturing the bloodshed of war. Brassaï was in Picasso's studio or capturing the sleazy nightlife of Paris in the 1930s, whilst Martin Munkácsi was injecting athleticism into the fashion photography at Harper's Bazaar in New York and André Kertész was experimenting with surrealism, narrative and abstraction in his images as he moved around Europe.
Britney Spears: 'I'm pretty normal'
Tuesday 17 May 2011
Britney Spears claims she is "pretty normal".
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: This is still a man's world
Monday 21 February 2011
Natalie Massenet: The queen of e-tail
Saturday 12 February 2011
Diary: From cover girl to bag lady
Thursday 06 January 2011
Gossip Girl star Blake Lively is to be the new face of Chanel's "Mademoiselle" handbag line, after she was introduced to Karl Lagerfeld by Vogue editor Anna Wintour. "I will always feel [the bag] is more than just a purse," Lively mused. "It's a quilted case full of lipstick, love letters and the dreams and possibilities that I have always felt every time I see that beautiful CC."
Popular culture goes back to the Thirties
Sunday 26 December 2010
Stylist with the key to Lady Gaga's wardrobe
Thursday 09 December 2010
Actress Emma Thompson honoured as female role model
Tuesday 02 November 2010
Emma Thompson, Florence Welch and Sam Taylor-Wood have been named Women of the Year.
Carola Long: 'Diana Vreeland’s deliciously decadent pronouncements turned her into a legendary fashion editor'
Saturday 30 October 2010
"Why don't you rinse your blond child's hair in dead champagne, to keep its gold, as they do in France?" It was this kind of deliciously decadent pronouncement that helped turn Diana Vreeland into a legendary fashion editor. The advice first appeared alongside other grand suggestions in her regular column called Why Don't You...? in US Harper's Bazaar where Vreeland was editor from the mid- Thirties through to1962, when she moved to US Vogue.
Anna Wintour: 'Being fired? it was my lucky break'
Friday 29 October 2010
Faux-fur designers bring the real thing in from the cold
Sunday 17 October 2010
The eternal truths, as revealed in a century of women's mags
Sunday 10 October 2010
J K Rowling tops list of Britain's most influential women
Sunday 10 October 2010
And the winner is not... Murdoch's blunder mars reality show final
Thursday 30 September 2010








