Brazilian Architect Oscar Niemeyer Receives the Order of Arts and Letters Award

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP).- Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer has received one of Spain’s top awards for the arts. Niemeyer was given a medal for the Order of Arts and Letters award, created in 2008 to recognize people or institutions that help Spanish culture flourish. American singer Joan Baez received the award earlier this year. The 102-year-old Niemeyer was tabbed for the award last year, but due to his health, he could not travel to Spain to accept it. Instead, Spanish [...]

Urban Puns by Gabriel Mendez

Gabriel Mendez was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He recently graduated at Parsons School of Design in New York with a BFA in Photography. He currently lives and works between New York and Rio, photographing and exhibiting his personal projects, shooting for major corporations and contributing to magazines in the United States, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, and Argentina. NEW YORK SAO PAULO / LOS ANGELES RIO DE JAINERO

Vivienne Westwood Fashion Image to Sell at Bonhams Photography Auction

LONDON.- A photographic commission for Vivienne Westwood’s On Liberty collection 1994-5, Donut, Kym, for Vivienne Westwood, 1994, by Dutch duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, which was used in a calendar and advertising campaign, is to be sold for £12,000 – 15,000 in the first auction for Bonhams new photography department on 20th May 2010 at New Bond Street. Three images by the leading American fashion photographer Lillian Bassman, who is attracting attention following an exhibition at Wapping Project [...]