HELMUT NEWTON AND YVES SAINT LAURENT
Backdropped by the second-wave feminist movement, Helmut Newton rose to prominence in the 70s with a louche and scandalous approach to photography, redefining the way women, and sex, were presented in advertising. First published in the pages of British
Vogue in the late 60s, Newton’s provocative lens produced some of the earliest examples of narrative storytelling in fashion photography. And it was alongside the late Yves Saint Laurent that the photographer’s will to subvert came to full fruition. Perhaps the most prominent example is Newton’s 1975 story in French
Vogue, which transformed the designer’s Le Smoking jacket into the smouldering staple it is today. The now infamous photo featured an androgynous woman standing in a woozy Parisian alleyway, hair slicked, billowy cravat, pinching a cigarette, intertwined with a model dressed only in black stilettos. The image was a controversial statement on femininity and underscored the d
For those unable to attend in person, the event will also be livestreamed on Daytimers’ Twitch TV channel, with proceeds going to the Hemkunt Foundation and India’s Trans Queer Hijra Intersex community.
“This event aims to increase awareness of the dire circumstances in India as a result of the second wave of COVID-19. At the time of writing, the total number of infections in India has passed 23 million, with New Delhi running out of space for cremations,” said Daytimers.
“The Hemkunt Foundation is raising money to purchase oxygen cylinders and concentrators, distributing these to COVID-19 patients for free. We’ll also be raising money for India’s trans community, and helping to provide food and sanitary preventative kits across six locations – supporting a community devastated by both COVID and the loss of their livelihoods.”
“Just as I arrived there was another passerby who just happened to be walking up the street, saw what was going on and sat down,” he says. “Then someone with a bike who was cycling past came and sat, and the next thing I knew there were 200 people.” Jamie says that watching the crowd grow to roughly a thousand people on the Pollokshields street at times felt “like an out-of-body experience”, but was ultimately unsurprising. After all, he adds, “What did they expect from the city of the Glasgow Girls?”
Roza Salih, whose voice often rang out on megaphones across the crowd that day, is one of seven women who formed the Glasgow Girls as schoolgirls in 2005 protesting the detention of their friend Agnesa Murselaj and her family in a dawn raid after fleeing Kosovo for asylum in the UK five years prior. After successfully stopping the Murselaj family’s deportation, the group’s members have been fighting for asylum seeker and refugee rights in Glasgow ever since.
According to Marvel.ai, customers can also choose from a particular voice model for auto-generated content. While it’s unclear who will be able to use what voice, we can only assume that it’s a matter of time until we can rent out Timothée Chalamet’s voice, or have Björk sing us to sleep with personalised lullabies.
In an interview with
the Verge, Veritone president Ryan Steelberg said that customers can submit voice clips to train Veritone’s systems and produce their own voice clone to license.
“Whoever has the copyright to those voices, we will work with them to bring them to the marketplace,” he said. “That will be up to the rightsholder and what they feel is appropriate, but hypothetically, yes, you could have Walter Cronkite reading the nightly news again.”