Par Guest Author • 26th April 2013 • Publié dans Art & Design
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Words by Simon Lamb
"The photograph is a guillotine blade that seizes one dazzling instant in eternity.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson
On my desk at home I have a box of photographs labelled Cycling Photographs to Frame. There are 87 prints, scans, magazine cuttings and photographs in the box, and each one I have decided at some point was my favourite cycling image, good enough at least to want framed. I don't have one favourite cycling photograph; I have 87. But for the sake of this article, I've whittled it down to four to choose from.
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Par Joe Hall • 25th March 2013 • Publié dans Art & Design
The Victoria and Albert Museum are curating an evening celebrating the diverse design culture inspired by the bicycle. Ruth Lie, Friday Late Programme Coordinator, told us a little bit about the event:
“I'd always wanted to do something about bicycles, and the way in which they've influenced the design world, especially in the aftermath of the Olympics and with it taking off as a more acceptable mainstream culture. I had also got a little obsessed with bikes over the last few years, researching into the geometry of bikes, brands, shops and framebuilders.
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Par Gem Atkinson • 14th March 2013 • Publié dans Art & Design
Louison Bobet stares doggedly ahead, hands clenched in the drops, his thousand-yard stare willing the bike forward. His Bottechia teammate and compatriot, Pierrot Barbotin follows dutifully on his wheel. With no time to glance at the breathtaking coastal scenery, the duo increase their efforts and pass over the Capo Berta, dropping their final two breakaway companions who remained from an earlier larger escape group from a move upon Passo Turchino.
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Par Joe Hall • 11th March 2013 • Publié dans Art & Design
Riccardo Guasco
Back in December we launched an illustration competition with publisher Thames & Hudson. The aim of the competition was to find an illustrator for the eighth book in a series of city cycling guides, which will be published later this year. The city in question is Milan, and we invited entrants to devise a single image that showed Milan from a city-cycling perspective. We had some fantastic submissions and the judges, comprising of folks from Thames & Hudson, Rapha, the authors of the guides and Antonio Colombo, head of Cinelli and Columbus, took longer than expected to pick a winner.
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Par Jeremy Dunn • 29th January 2013 • Publié dans Art & Design
photography by Emily Maye
Take a look through Emily Maye's ever growing collection of cycling photography and you'll find wildly different photos on the subject. A background in cinema is easily recognizable through her ability to capture action as well as the all the goings-on associated with the daily hum of bike racing. She shines in her newfound work with cyclocross and offers a fresh eye on the sport and its characters. Emily's passion for cross, however, was put on hold back in late December 2012 met she up with Team Sky on the island of Mallorca, Spain to shoot photos of the team for Rapha. See the Team Sky Lookbook. Not only was this the team's debut ride in the clothing, but it was her first time on the back of a motorbike. We sat down with Emily to get her take on shooting with Team Sky and the upcoming Cyclocross World Championships.
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Par Joe Hall • 9th January 2013 • Publié dans Art & Design
The Centraal Museum in Utrecht in the Netherlands is currently hosting a comprehensive exhibition of denim and its impact on the world. Displaying examples of blue jeans as fashion, art, craftsmanship, technology and more, it looks at more than 350 years of this most simple but culturally important textile. As the blue jeans catalogue testifies:
“An iconic street symbol that can be found in almost every wardrobe: the blue jeans. Worn for more than 150 years, the fabric holds an even more longstanding tradition. Still it has repeatedly proven to be modern and innovative.”
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Par Chris DiStefano • 2nd January 2013 • Publié dans Art & Design
One of my early mentors in the bicycle business impressed the following maxim on me, "ride to where you ride". I use it quite often when talking to the press, government officials, and new riders. For those not immersed in the way of the bicycle there are many daunting questions that must be addressed before the first ride is undertaken. Chief among them, "What should I wear?" I borrow from the aforementioned maxim, "Wear what you are wearing." Seems most of the citizenry of the United States has come to believe that to "go biking", even if just to the office or the store, one is required to wear Spandex and a time trial helmet. No wonder we've had such historically low numbers of ridership. But that attitude is changing as cities embrace bicycle infrastructure and bike share. Further, contemporary fashion is taking cues from the bicycle and, we can hope, the Survey blog.
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