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      ‘It commemorates collective moments’: Radiohead through the eyes of Colin Greenwood

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 29 September - 09:00

    Since 2003, the bassist has taken his camera to the studio and on stage to capture his bandmates at work. Now, a beautiful new book shares his intimate, delicate pictures of one of Britain’s best-loved groups

    The story of one of Britain’s biggest bands of the past 30 years didn’t begin with rowdy rehearsal rooms or rock’n’roll lore. It started with five school friends in drafty village halls in rural Oxfordshire, paying £1.50 per band member to the keeper of the keys, moving rubber crash mats and plywood chairs to set up their equipment. In barely more than a decade, they were headlining arenas and festivals.

    The sweet story of Radiohead’s rise is documented in How to Disappear , a new book by bassist Colin Greenwood, big brother of guitarist Jonny and lifelong friend of singer Thom Yorke, guitarist Ed O’Brien and drummer Phil Selway. Ostensibly a photographic record of their working lives after 2003, when he started taking a camera with him into the studio and on stage, it also includes a beautifully written 10,000-word essay on the experiences they’ve shared.

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      ‘Every tree used to be blanketed with them’: photographer captures campaign to save monarch butterfly

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 29 September - 08:00

    Climate change and pesticides have combined to pose a deadly threat to the vivid species. The Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards celebrate the fightback

    Jaime Rojo has been following the fate of the monarch butterfly for more than 20 years. In the process the Spanish photographer has watched one of the planet’s most colourful, flamboyant insect species succumb to the combined onslaught of habitat destruction, climate change, pesticides, drought and wildfires. Its population has crashed in the process.

    It is a dramatic, disturbing story that will be recognised next month when Rojo is given a highly commended award for his photojournalism at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London.

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      The big picture: Consuelo Kanaga’s portrait of a young woman in the deep south, 1948

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 29 September - 06:00 · 1 minute

    The photojournalist, a pioneer in portraiture of Black Americans, took this shot in Tennessee during the era of Jim Crow

    Consuelo Kanaga took this picture of a young woman in Tennessee in 1948. Kanaga had by that time been working as a professional photographer for 33 years, having got her first job at the San Francisco Chronicle at the age of 21. She was a pioneer in portraiture of Black Americans, through the era of Jim Crow and into the civil rights movement, chronicling the Harlem Renaissance and the painfully slow loosening of segregation in the south.

    This image is included in a new retrospective book of Kanaga’s work. The portrait of the young woman is typical of Kanaga’s handling of light; a gentleness learned living with families in the projects of San Francisco in the previous decade. The framing offers a visual reference to the art of silhouette, reserved for mostly elite – and white – profiles before the advent of photography. Kanaga presents a simple profile, but her eye dwells on the light and shade of her subject’s interiority with all the painterly care of an old master. The headband and the frilled collar and the eyes fixed – hopefully? resignedly? – toward an uncertain future post-second world war add to the effect. “Young is old in poor cultures,” Kanaga once said.

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      Week in wildlife in pictures: Hampshire beaver babies, bubbly lizards and a shopaholic koala

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 20 September - 07:00


    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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      No hospital, no cars … and only three school pupils: life on a remote island – in pictures

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 19 September - 06:45


    From crazed parties and LSD-laced bread to bike rides in blissful silence, the inhabitants of this isolated outpost in the Mediterranean have a uniquely strong social bond – as long as you don’t speak ill of the dolphins …

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      ‘Violence and sacrifice are involved’: art’s Frankenstein John Stezaker on his creepy creations

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 18 September - 15:23


    He splices together old images and electrifies them into disturbing new life. The artist invites us to his studio to discuss drag shows, depression and David Hockney

    If you want to see the very best work of John Stezaker, there’s a problem. Despite exhibiting all around the world, the artist saves his very best works for the walls of his studio in St Leonards-on-Sea.

    “They’re there to reassure me: oh yes, I am a good artist,” he says.

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