ART-OPOLOGY

Sam Scott Schiavo - Back to Elegance

Sam Scott Schiavo is a italo-american photographer born and raised in Philadelphia.
Through various adventures on both sides of Atlantic, he has made Italy is home for nearly 20 years.

For the past 18 years he has been a model agent/talent scout in Milan but is now concentrating on photography full time

His unique style is a mix of cinema, underground, neorealismo and film noir and gets you into an elegant and nostalgic world where everything is as pure as fascinating.

Nowadays Sam lives and works in his two studios between Milan and Vienna.
A book? ...of course, there's one coming up, and we can hardly wait to have it

Here is ART-OPOLOGY interview with this talented photographer:

what is your idea of beauty?

Beauty is so abstract, i see it every where, in the weathered winkles of old people's faces, in the wide eyed innocent beauty of children laughing but when I cast a model I prefer the classical with a twist, maybe a stronger nose, something off that makes them more interesting and a natural self confidence, elegance , secure in themselves in front of the camera, never vulgar. Even if I photograph a boxer with his rugged, worn face, he has a particular grace about him that intrigues me.

photography is creation or reflection of moments of life?
I draw so so much from my memories, many or I should say most of my styling ideas, the way I see an image stem from my childhood or youth, reflecting fashion moments I lived ... my eyes have seen many decades of fashion, films, tendencies, inventions and changes! Moments in time frozen in my subconscious.

What are your favourites painters?
My absolutely favorite painters are Francis Bacon and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Is there any person you'd like as a model?
Well, if i could go back some years ... I would of loved to have shot a youthful Joe Dellasandro and years ago there was my idea of perfection of a male model, Scott Benoit, he was like a Roman statue. Naturally, also from the past, so many Divas of cinema I would have loved to have shot, they were great beauties not relying on photoshop! In their day, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Bardot and for me the pair Catherine Spaak and Jane Birkin were in the 60's fashion & beauty ICONS that were so au courant...

Give us 3 key words to define the italian style
I am afraid to say that 'Italian Style' may be loosing ground, becoming boring and uncreative ... it really needs to return to it's roots: modern, sleek and innovative.

What is inspiration for you? How do you get inspired?
I am inspired often by films, or a reflection of a moment from my past or I see a face that inspires me to create an editorial for them. Often a nostalgic moment can turn into a very modern idea!

Any new projects?
I have many projects in 'my hat', the Southern Italian blood in me sometimes makes me superstitious to speak about them all! But i have various editorials I am organizing for the spring and am working almost everyday editing my first book 'CARNAL REMAINS' which i hope to have published in the near future.

Tell us your perfect soundtrack for a photosession
The perfect soundtrack when i shoot is a retro mix which includes France Joli's Come to Me, many Donna Summer tunes mixed with Jean Carne, Chaka Kahn, Teddy Pendergrass, Candi Staton with some Amy Winehouse.

Vincent Urbani

"The Amsterdam Chainsaw Massacre"

"The Amsterdam Chainsaw Massacre" is the name of the cover editorial of February's Dazed & Confused, shot by Josh Olins. It's definitely a stunning editorial and manages to bring together 2 things : the always gorgeous Magdalena Frackowiak and Viktor & Rolf's Spring/Summer 2010 Collection.

Javier Crespo

Media-TIC by Ruiz Geli at Barcelona 22@ district

The Media-TIC building will be the nucleus connecting the space between the Media and TIC clusters of the 22@Barcelona district, a meeting point for companies and professionals. Developed by the Consortium of the Zona Franca and the 22@Barcelona company, the Media-TIC building stands at the junction of Carrer Roc Boronat and Carrer Sancho de Ávila.

Media-TIC covers an area of 14,000 m2 with spaces for companies, research and training, and gives priority to spatial intercommunication, the interrelation with the 22@Barcelona district, of which it is a part, and the development of synergies as befitting a cluster space.

The Open University of Catalonia will occupy the 5,000 m2 of the building's top three floors and will house the university's Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) and the eLearn Center, while Barcelona Digital Centre Tecnològic will also set up its headquarters in the building, occupying almost an entire floor.

Special attention will also be paid to the zones on the ground floor, where communal services and communication spaces will be located to enhance the connection between the various initiatives of the Parc Barcelona Media and the opening of the building in the district.

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More 22@ District info

· Carlos Romo

London Fashion Week - Top Man Design

Elisa Sedoni

Jean Philippe Charbonnier - "...and make it last forever"

Jean-Philippe Charbonnier (August 28, 1921 – May 28, 2004) was a french photographer. His father was a painter, his mother a writer. Because of the war, he escape his hometown and go to Lyon, Marseille, Toulon; he arrive in Switzerland where he meet with Jean Manevy who will teach him the art of typography and journalism. In 1948, he became the technical editor in chief for Liberation, then he work for such magazines like France Dimanche and Point de Vue. In 1950, he is appointed reporter for the magazine Realites, he then specialize in French daily life stories. Starting from that time, he will travel the world. He photograph China as soon as 1955, Moscow during the cold war, Koweit, the former French Equatorial Africa or Alaska. Today his photographs are historical documents showing us the transformation of our society between 1945 and 2004. Jean-Philippe Charbonnier was married to Agathe Gaillard, in 1975 they open the first photography gallery in Paris, the Agathe Gaillard Gallery. Today, the gallery still exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Philippe_Charbonnier

http://www.photographie.com/?autid=102812

Vincent Urbani

Katsen - Basic Pleasure Unit

Katsen - Where Nobody Can Find Us.

Video, music, and the joy it fills me with all provided by Katsen.

Following on from their debut album "It Hertz!", indie-electronic-pop duo Katsen has returned to us with a new EP, "Basic Pleasure Unit." The 5 track EP features 3 brand new songs, an extended mix of a day dreamers delight “Florian” and from their album “It Hertz!”, the pop-tastic gem “Where nobody can find us”.

1. Where Nobody Can Find Us
2. Accidents In The Home
3. A Soulless Party
4. A Pulse
5. Florian (Luminous Vinyl Mix)

"Basic Pleasure Unit" can be purchased from the bands website: http://www.katsen.com/

Hayden Headphone

MAY68

Mix synthesizers and guitars and you get MAY68, a fresh Manchester five-piece electro-pop band.

Last year they where supporting names like Delphic, The Juan MacLean, Glasscandy, The Drums and We Have Band. This year they are ready to launch their debut single 'My Ways' on Hit Club Records on March 5th and start a promotion tour in the UK.

A band that will be heard a lot in the 2010.

Angelo Svart

Under Control

UNDER CONTROL from JASON LAST on Vimeo.

Under Control - Video editorial directed by Jason Last & styled by Sonny Groo for BLEND MAG. issue 47

Javier Crespo

Expo Shanghai Pavillions

International/Universal 'expos' are for architecture what Eurovision contest is for music: a weird but exotic mixture of styles and ways of thinking, a little pinch of bad taste and much money wasted in something that will not last more than a year.

Here are some proposals for international pavillions: the perforated box still is the winning solution for square minded architects, and square urban planning.

Over all, I would like to highlight the non-winning proposal from Izaskun Chinchilla, one of the most irreverent Spanish young architects, who clearly makes the difference on architecture designing process.