Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges: Opening a great success
The opening of new exhibition Eyes For Blowing Up Bridges: Joining The Dots From The Situationist International To Malcolm McLaren at the weekend was a great success.
Category: 1990s
À la mod: My piece for The Guardian on the enduring appeal of Mod
From the SS16 menswear collections to the people flocking to Somerset House’s current celebration of The Jam, the aesthetic of “clean living under difficult circumstances” (as summarised by The Who’s first manager, Pete Meaden) is at one with what’s happening now in fashion… Read the rest of my piece – with quotes from Dylan Jones […]
Groove Is In The Heart: Deee-lite at Wigstock 1990
This’ll put a spring in your step – Dee-lite performing at Wigstock in 1990, as posted by Hintmag. The second track is What Is Love (Holographic Goatee Mix). Check it out on Hintmag’s FB page. Here is the promo for Groove Is In The Heart:
PRINT @SHOWStudio: Interviewed by Lou Stoppard and shots from my magazine archive
The launch of SHOWStudio’s new series PRINT features an interview with me by editor Lou Stoppard about my magazine archive. There is also a section dedicated to images from the archive, including front covers, spreads and ads.
The Spice Girls: My part in their rise and my non-appearance in the Wannabe video
Just when boys with guitars threaten to rule pop life – Damon’s all over Smash Hits, Ash are big in Big! and Liam can’t move for tabloid frenzy – an all-girl, in-your-face pop group have arrived with enough sass to burst their rockist bubble. From Music Week, April 1996 I see that next week marks […]
In search of the entirely unexpected: Barney Bubbles among Print magazine’s Unsung Heroes Of Design
For its 75th anniversary issue, US visual culture publication Print has selected Barney Bubbles as one of six “unsung heroes of design”.
A cause for celebration: Digitisation of all 239 issues of Spare Rib
Great news that the British Library has digitised the archive of one of the most important magazines of modern times: Spare Rib. If you don’t know it or haven’t seen the publication, you are in for a treat. As the British Library’s politics and public life curator Polly Russell says, Spare Rib was “funny, irreverent, […]
The Family Acid: New book of the photography of a psychedelic pioneer, reggae archivist, actor and anthologist
One of my favourite Instagram feeds is The Family Acid, run by Kate Steffens, daughter of reggae archivist, actor, anthologist, psychedelic pioneer and photographer Roger Steffens.
What We Wore: An intelligent and egalitarian celebration of our collective visual invention
Into the over-worked field of ‘street style’ comes a breath of fresh air: What We Wore – A People’s History Of British Style. Free of cliche and pretension, Nina Manandhar and Eva Dawoud’s book compiles the personal images and anecdotes of a hugely diverse set of contributors. The book is not dominated by well-known people and […]
Photography books: Punk Rockers! by Alain Dister
A photograph of Vivienne Westwood – credited to the fashion designer’s archive in the new Westwood book with Ian Kelly – put me in mind of an image I have in one of my many books in storage. At first I couldn’t put my finger on the particular tome. Then bingo! Bought eight years ago […]