ELISABETH SUNDAY AND HER NEW BOOK GRACE
PUBLISHED BY NAZRAELI PRESS


"For twenty-six years, Elisabeth Sunday has found her muse in Africa: a place of origins, devastating beauty, great troubles and unyielding expressions of life. She has traveled alone and lived among various original peoples who amidst a changing world, have clung tenaciously to traditional ways of life. From the hunter-gatherers dwelling in the primeval forests of the Congo Basin, to the nomadic tribes inhabiting the vast stretches of the Sahara Desert, Sunday's photographs reveal an interplay of invisible forces that connect her subjects with the world of nature. Utilizing a flexible mirror of her own design, Sunday photographs reflections that blend and dissolve the boundaries between her figures and their environment. Sunday's images express an intimacy with a corresponding strength derived from that relationship. She writes: 'Mirror photography is much more than photographing a reflection, it produces a visual alchemy that combines the physical world with that of the great mystery….and captures some element that remains hidden in straight photography.' "

MS. SUNDAY'S WORK FROM THIS SERIES WILL BE ON DISPLAY AT THE FABULOUS PETER FETTERMAN GALLERY FROM SEPTEMBER 22ND - DECEMBER 6TH | PETERFETTERMAN.COM

@LEECLOWSBEARD

BOOK LAUNCH + CELEBRATION
TUESDAY, JULY 17th 4 - 7
 

In honor of Lee Clow, @leeclowsbeard is the first publication of Let There Be Dragons, a new multimedia studio. For four decades, Lee Clow has created and shepherded radical and iconic advertising ideas that move us emotionally. Clow has become a legend within the advertising industry and one of its most visible spokesmen. Yet his wisdom, wit, and positions on advertising, business, and life have never been compiled in a single place - until now.

A young writer named Jason Fox, previously unknown to Clow, began channeling him on Twitter with tweets that were said to have emanated from Clow's signature beard. Day-by-day, @leeclowsbeard offered up sly and witty 140-character sentences that inspired people to come up with better ideas and offered suggestions on how to persuade clients on how to buy these better notions.

Today, @leeclowsbeard boasts over 20,000 followers worldwide, along with (the real) Lee Clow's support. Some of the most choice posts have been compiled here along with captivating photographs of Clow himself. It's a must-read for anyone involved in advertising, marketing, business at large, and creative fields of all types.

Please join us in Culver City's Historic Helms Bakery at the new Arcana: Books on the Arts designed by Johnston Marklee in collaboration with Landlocd for refreshments, an exclusive limited "signed" edition of the @leeclowsbeard book, and the chance to check out the new Let There Be Dragons mobile office designed by Jeffrey Allsbook of Standard Architecture.

NOTES FROM A REVOLUTION:  COM/CO, THE DIGGERS & THE HAIGHT

A COMPENDIUM OF THE POSTERS AND BROADSIDES THAT PROLIFERATED
IN HAIGHT-ASHBURY DURING THE MID ‘60s

BOOK LAUNCH   +   FILM SCREENING   +   CONVERSATION
JUNE 17th 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
 

The social upheaval of the sixties gave rise to fascinating coalitions and communes, but the Diggers stand apart from them all. Formed in Haight-Ashbury in 1966 by members of R. G. Davis's subversive theater company, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the Diggers took their name from the English Diggers, a seventeenth century agrarian collective devoted to creating a utopian society free of ownership and commerce.
 
A critically important part of their methodology were the hundreds posters and broadsides that proliferated in Haight-Ashbury during the mid ‘60s. A compendium of these graphically inventive, lacerating and sometimes funny posters and broadsides are gathered together for the first time in Notes From a Revolution, which offers a fascinating and oddly moving record of the counterculture in its early bloom.

We've yet to create individual postings for our waaay past events. They include...

Bruce Weber, Ed and Deanna Templeton, David Byrne, William Eggleston, Michael Hodgson, Marc Joseph, Dante Ferretti, Clive Piercy, Peter Beard, Russell James, and Andrew MacPherson.