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Dashiel “Dash” Snow (July 27, 1981 - July 13, 2009) Dashiel A. Snow was born in 1981, the son of Taya Thurman and Christopher Snow. He was also a great-grandson of the founders of the Menil Collection in Houston, Dominique de Menil and John de Menil, French aristocrats who were heirs to fortunes based in textiles and oil-drilling equipment (see Schlumberger). His maternal grandfather was Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman. Robert Thurman is actress Uma Thurman’s father. His maternal grandmother was set and costume designer Marie-Christophe de Menil. He had a brother named Maxwell and a sister named Caroline. As a child he was rebellious, and at 13[1] was sent to the Hidden Lake Academy in Georgia, a boarding school specialising in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant disorder.

At the age of 18, Snow married Corsican-born artist Agathe Snow. They later split up and divorced. In July 2007 Dash’s then-girlfriend, photo magazine editor Jade Berreau, gave birth to his daughter, whom they named Secret Midnight Magic Nico.

Snow died on the evening of July 13, 2009 at Lafayette House, a hotel in lower Manhattan.[2] His grandmother Marie-Christophe de Menil was quoted as saying that he died of a drug overdose. A New York Times article commented that Snow “met a junkie’s end but did so in a $325-a-night hotel room with an antique marble hearth

Solo Project aims to compliment the General Programme and ARCO 40 with one man show proposals presented by an international group of curators appointed by ARCO.

Playing House With Nan Goldin
Erin Wasson Stars in the New Lookbook for Melbourne’s Chicest Brand Scanlan & Theodore
Australian fashion brand Scanlan & Theodore rarely does things by the book. For one thing, it doesn’t advertise. For another, though its international fans include Mischa Barton and Carine Roitfeld, you can only kit yourself out in its breezily glamorous designs by visiting one of its nine stores down under. The label’s creative director, Gary Theodore (who launched Scanlan & Theodore with Fiona Scanlan in 1987), has been described as Melbourne’s equivalent of Martin Margiela by the Australian press, because of his reluctance to be photographed or interviewed. And for his brand’s seasonal lookbooks, he has tended to collaborate with unusual and controversial artists, the latest of whom is Nan Goldin, a photographer whose images are famed for their visceral emotional impact, intimacy and unflinching honesty. “We’ve always sought out singular––sometimes riskily so––voices and visions to express the independent nature of our brand,” says Theodore, who in previous seasons has worked with photographers such as David Armstrong and Bill Henson. “This time we thought it should be Nan.” After contacting Goldin through a mutual friend, Theodore discovered that she had her own ideas, specifying Texan beauty Erin Wasson (who, besides being a muse to Alexander Wang, designs her own jewelry line Low Luv and has collaborated with skate and surf brand RVCA on several ready-to-wear collections) as her subject of choice. This all arranged, Goldin and Wasson met at a tumbledown mansion in Yonkers, outside New York, producing the above images, which we exclusively premiere today. The rough-smooth beauty of the shoot neatly offsets the collection, which, according to Theodore, “plays on contradiction with a feeling of warm and cool, both in the colors and the fabrics.” Read Erin Wasson’s thoughts on the whole experience in our exclusive interview.

WEEGEE

Weegee was born June 12, 1899, in Austria, under the name Usher Fellig. Shortly after he was born his father left for America, where he was a Rabbi while saving enough money to send for the rest of his family. At the age of ten, Weegee with his mother and three brothers, finally arrived to America. At Ellis Island, Weegee’s name was changed from Usher to Arthur.

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R.Adams
(born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through the book The New West (1974) and the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape (1975). He was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow in photography in 1973 and 1980, and he received the MacArthur Foundation’s MacArthur Fellowship in 1994. In 2009, he received the Hasselblad Award for his achievements in photography.[1] He is represented by the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco and the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.