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爱尔兰国宝级摄影师Bill Doyle（1926 – 2010）被誉为爱尔兰的布列松，多年来，自学成才的他用黑白影像捕捉爱尔兰阿伦群岛人们淳朴而原始的生活方式。然而，与快门不停按的布列松的相异之处在于，他是一位非常珍惜昂贵胶片的“one-shot”摄影师。

阿伦群岛，在这片堪称世外桃源的岛屿上，当地的人们一直使用爱尔兰语，并遵循从旧时沿袭下来的生活方式，安静而悠然。Bill Doyle自1960年代以来拍摄的大量阿伦群岛渔民的生活剪影，均收录在《The Aran Islands: Another World》一书中。

Bill Doyle, who passed away last year at the age of 85, was often referred to as Ireland’s Cartier-Bresson and had a knack for artfully capturing the scenes of the world around him. During his trips to the islands, he was able to photograph many of the people and their daily activities and in 1999 a collection of these pictures were published together in a single volume titled The Aran Islands – Another World.

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在美国艺术家Andrea Zittel看来，生活本身就是一项永不停止的行为艺术。

Zittel的部分创作的雏形是家中完成的，而成品则由她个人品牌 A-Z Administration Services 制造。在纽约居住数年后（A-Z East），Zittel 搬到了位于约书亚树国家公园附近的宽敞居所（A-Z West）。她将生活内容作为其创作的主题：日常的活动，诸如烹饪、打扫，甚至于决定每天穿什么衣服对她来说都是一种探索和实验。作品通常都是可搬动的装置，有的是雕塑，有的是建筑。她的创作具有清晰的条理，通常是在探讨人类生活中的自然本性以及社会、心理需求，体现着对自由、个人主义、移动性以及舒适感的追求。“辩证空间”这个项目贯穿了Zittel十五年的艺术生涯，是她创作深度和广度的集中体现。惠特尼博物馆展出了辩证空间系列的部分作品，Altria空间则展示了另一组Zittel 在约书亚树居所创作的作品，一排可自由移动的居住单元——“旅行驿站”（Wagon Stations）。在这里，作为一位生活艺术家，Zittel与我们分享了她的创作巧思。

For American Artist Andrea Zittel, Who is the subject of two major exhibition in New York, life is an ongoing work of performance art.

Many of these pieces began their lives in Zittel’s home, produced under her pseudo trademark, A-Z Administration Services. After living in New York for several years (A-Z East), Zittel moved out to California to a sprawling property in Joshua Tree (A-Z West). Her life and work are rigorously linked: daily rituals like cooking, cleaning and deciding what to wear become fodder for contem- plation and experimentation. She creates highly systematic, often portable do- mestic objects and structures that are part sculpture, part architecture. These test cases explore ideas about human nature and the social and psychological demands of everyday life – addressing notions of freedom, individualism, mo- bility and comfort. While Critical Space spans Zittel’s 15-yearcareer, revealing the depth and breadth of her practice, the Whitney Museum’s concurrent show displays several pieces of just one series. Small Liberties, on view at the Whitney’s Altria space, presents a line-up of “Wagon Stations,” customized mobile units created at the Joshua Tree site. Here, Zittel provides some insights into her thought-provoking practice as a living artist. (interview source)

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澳大利亚摄影师Chris Court经常为杂志拍摄生活方式类的照片，临近周末，奉上一些可以勾起食欲的摄影作品。恩……不如自己动手下厨，从食物中觅得好心情吧！

Australian photographer Chris Court is good at shooting wonderful interior and lifestyle images. Happy weekend!

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Ditte Isager出生于哥本哈根，2006年后移居纽约。她的摄影作品通常以手工艺人、艺术家/创意人的家、食物、生活方式为主，对于图片关系的处理可谓完美，照片所传达的生活质感与细节亦让人向往不已。

Ditte Isager born and raised in Copenhagen Denmark. Living in NYC since 2006. The style is simple nordic.

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西班牙居家生活杂志《Apartamento》第六期出炉，在网站公布的contributor中看到了Miranda July、Nieves Books创办人Benjamin Sommerhalder、James Jarvis的名字，以及艺术家、画家Tomi Ungerer的访问。

Apartamento is a interiors magazine dedicated to interior space and the people who live in it. The issue 06 is out now!

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绝对伏特加一直以新颖独特的包装设计和限量版产品，赢得时尚和设计界的广泛赞誉。今年，绝对伏特加携手艺术家高瑀首次推出专为中国定制的绝对伏特加中国限量版“72变” (Absolut 72 Bian), 并邀中国时尚摄影领军人物陈曼创作了一系列前卫的平面作品。“72变” 将于8月正式在中国限量发售。绝对伏特加旨在通过 “绝对72变” 限量版的推出，向求新求变中的国人表达：凡人虽都做不了孙大圣，但若熊猫扮得，你也扮得，我也扮得，即便不能神通如他，起码也可及之万一。 让我们来看下高瑀如何来描述创作灵感： “孙大圣是陪伴我们成长起来的传统中国人物形象，它天马行空，大胆、创新的特质，激发了一代人对自我潜能的憧憬和幻想，而“72变”的能耐正是这种创新特质 的绝佳表现。在这款限量版的设计里，我让熊猫扮起了孙大圣，既体现了中国限量版所包含的传统中国元素，也契合了绝对伏特加求新求变的品牌理念。”

而陈曼的作品也延续了一贯绚丽的风格，用一位模特变化出多种不同的造型，充分表达了“变化”主题： “希望这组广告片能为观者带来一种全新的从视觉到味觉的“通感”体验。希望能突显绝对伏特加中国限量版所营造的多变的鸡尾酒口味，以及其现代、大胆、创新的品牌精神。”

Swedish vodka brand, ABSOLUT, has a long history of creative collaborations with artists all over the world. It’s worked with Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Helmut Newton, Damien Hirst, Louise Bourgeois, David Shrigley, Douglas Gordon, Sylvie Fleury, Dan Wolgers, Hung Tung-Lu, and hundreds of other designers and photographers throughout the years. Continuing this tradition, ABSOLUT is launching its first ever limited edition bottle in China – exclusively designed by Chinese artists for the local Chinese creative community. ABSOLUT collaborated with artist Gao Yu (高瑀) to create a China-only redesign of brand’s iconic bottle titled “72 Transformations” (72变). ABSOLUT also worked with leading-edge Chinese photographer Chen Man (陈曼) to produce a series of avant-garde photographs to compliment Gao Yu’s bottle re-design and extend the brand’s “Transformations” campaign theme.

Why “72 Transformations”?

The Monkey King (Sun Wukong, 孙悟空), an important figure in traditional Chinese folklore, has the ability to transform himself 72 different ways as he overcomes obstacles on his pilgrimage to achieve enlightenment. It’s this ability that inspired Gao Yu as he thought through how to re-design the ABSOLUT bottle and express the brand’s “transformation” campaign theme.