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Juergen Teller and Johnnie Shand Kydd
Jay Jopling hosted a party at his gallery White Cube on Monday night not for one of the artists on his starry roster but for his longtime friend the photographer Johnnie Shand Kydd whose new book Crash has just been published. For over 10 years Shand Kydd documented the lives of the YBAs, publishing his informal photographs of British artists such as Damien Hirst and Sam Taylor-Wood in a book called Spit Fire in 1997. Many of the artists Shand Kydd photographed during the 1990s were out in force on Monday to celebrate with the man who captured the art scene in London at one of its all-time highs. Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Sam Taylor-Wood, Michael Landy, Gillian Wearing, Rebecca Warren were joined by other art world luminaries such as Sadie Coles and husband Juergen Teller, Norman Rosenthal, Stuart Shave and Jake Miller.
Shand Kydd describes himself as a reportage photographer and in his new book he captures many of the same artists ten years on, as well as widening his net to include some of the most significant figures from the international contemporary art world. Gilbert & George, Sam Taylor-Wood, Nan Goldin, Richard Prince, Juergen Teller, Maurizio Cattelan and Tracey Emin are just some of the artists that feature in this beguilingly intimate collection of pictures. Many of the photographs have the air of friendly conspiracy or unaffected collaboration, as if taken by an old friend - which is the case with many of Shand Kydd's subjects - and as such convey an unusually familiar and insightful look at some of the art world's key players when they are off duty. As Tilda Swinton puts it in her introdictuinoto the book: 'You, the gentleman hustler among the throng, shaken but never stirred. Still able to hold a glass, a cigarette and set a light reading often enough to get a glimpse of something occasionally very gorgeous and, more often, strangely lasting in the mind's eye. Frequently you provide the iconic image - the key - to the way a very public artist is envisaged by the public: the archive record of the way in which your subjects arrange themselves for the world.'
Crash, which contains 200 black-and-white pictures, is published by Damiani this autumn at $45. |
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Jay Jopling, Plaxy and Giorgio Locatelli
Michael Landy and Gillian Wearing
Norman Rosenthal
Richard Strange and Grayson Perry
Dinos Chapman
Rebecca Warren
Tracey Emin and Nick Reynolds
Photographs by Dafydd Jones |
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| Published on 20-09-2006 |
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