On view through January 30, 2011 at Proud Camden, London Calling: The Clash by Adrian Boot offers a unique photographic portrait of the iconic band. Boot captured the band at work and play, and most often rehersing at Gin House at the Stables Market, Camden. Coincidentally, its the same location Proud London, the host of the exhibition, resides in now. This fact makes the exhibition that much sweeter.

Living Breathing History.

Proud Camden
The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road
London NW1 8AH

More of Adrian Boot’s photographs of the Clash come after the jump.

On view through January 16, 2011 at the National Theater in London, the “Landscape Photographer of the Year 2010″ exhibition highlights photographers capturing subjects as diverse as Oxford Circus and the Scottish Highlands. The diversity of image is most impressive, reminding not just of Britain’s agricultural tradition, but of its legacy in urban architecture as well. The prize is sponsored by both Network Rail and Natural England.

A selection of works from the exhibition follow.

Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand: Masterworks from The Metropolitan Museum of Art is published in conjunction with the current exhibition, of same name, at the Metropolitan Museum. The photographic jewels shown and discussed are among the true gems of the institutions overall collection. Malcolm Daniel is Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, takes readers through the careers and innovations of the groundbreaking master photographers.

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The ACE Hotel in NYC piggybacks the “Bulls, Broncs, and Bulls” film from Levi’s and Pendleton with an art exhibit showcasing scenes and views from the movie. “Come
by the Ace from November 15th-Dec 12th to see some beautiful images from the trip by photographer Brad Bunyea.”

Some more looks from the Pendleton + Levi’s Gallery at the Ace Hotel NYC after the click.

Some fashion connected art for you this Friday.

FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy presents Guy Bourdin, In Between, a new exhibition featuring rare works by the late iconic French fashion photographer (1928 – 1991) at the Payne Whitney Mansion, home to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York City. The show will be on display through December 10, 2010, and debuts in conjunction with the launch of In Between¸ a book published by Steidldangin and edited by Shelly Verthime.

The exhibition includes over 30 exquisite prints of vintage black and white images. Guy Bourdin’s first retrospective was staged at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2003. With a striking and unique palette of hyper realcolors, Bourdin created theatrical and dramatic mise en scene in the pre-digital era, and inaugurate a profoundly unique and intimate signature style.

A selection of Bourdin’s photographs after the jump.

No, not that Nico. Snow Mag turns us onto the work of photographer Nico, who lives between London and Tokyo. We could rant and rave but, as you can see, the pictures just look good. Check his site to see more.

Our man Chris Milliman has a special knack for capturing the social side of sport. His latest collection of photographs compares and contrasts the race seen of Roubaix, France, with the BMX culture of Northern California.

Curated has the full story.

Design folks are really hyped about Ikea’s new cookbook. The “why?” is pretty obvious, the publication utilizes a lovely pictorial layout – geometric arrangements of ingredients. The awesome thing about the book, entitled Hembakat är Bäst (Homemade Is Best), is that it is free.

Downside, only available in Sweden (as the honorable Mr. Jeff Staple points out). Upside, I will be in Sweden next week.

More images and a video after the leap.

Albert Watson’s new monograph, UFO (Unified Fashion Objectives), a 40-year retrospective of his best work, features 364 color and black-and-white photographs, and a forward by photo historian and curator Gail Buckland. Watson has made his mark as one of the world’s most successful fashion and commercial photographers during the last four decades. His striking images have appeared on more than 100 covers of Vogue around the world.

UFO features Watson’s portraits of some of the world’s most celebrated figures, including Michael Jackson, Prince, P. Diddy,  David Bowie, Johnny Depp, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn, Joaquin Phoenix,  Quentin Tarantino, Grace Jones, Sade, Beyonce, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, Brooke Shields, Lauren Hutton, Janice Dickinson, and Christie Brinkley, among many more.

The book is set for November 2010 publication from PQ Blackwell.

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A full selection of Watson’s photographs follows.

Formed in 1976, as Warsaw, the Joy Division defined the look and sound of the post-punk era despite a shortened four year run. During that period, photographer Kevin Cummins was offered full access to the young group. He says, they “were learning to pose as a band while I was learning to shoot bands.” Cummins archive of Joy Division photographs, coupled with rare ephemera (including Ian Curtis’ own notebooks), forms the definitive monograph Joy Division. From composed shots in T.J. Davidson’s rehearsal room to raw live performance photos, and even portraits on the streets of Manchester, Cummins view of the band is broad and unfettered.

In the forward, Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City, articulates Joy Division’s sound. He writes, “What Joy Division seemed to have, still seems to have, was a kind of gloomy authenticity, a direct line of transmission to the pain and uncertainty and raw emotion of that vantage point at the precipice of post-adolescence.” The words quite accurately describe Cummins photographs as well, for they are documents full of intimacy between both band members and the City of Manchester. As McInerney suggests, the collected ephemera and photographs successfully capture the imagination of people and place. The era is frozen in time, and with it the mood of a pioneering band.

A conversation between Cummins and Joy Division founding member Bernard Sumner rounds out the publication – undoubtedly the most complete celebration of the band on paper.

© Joy Division, Rizzoli New York, 2010.

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A selection of ephemera and photographs by Kevin Cummins after the jump.