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Brian David Stevens
@briandavidstevens.bsky.social
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Photographer. “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a content provider" Work in National Portrait Gallery, Scottish National Galleries, Martin Parr Foundation https://www.briandavidstevens.com
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Brian David Stevens @briandavidstevens.bsky.social · Nov 10
A selection of portraits of war veterans photographed on Remembrance Sundays over a ten year period #remembrance #armistice
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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 18h
I dug into the Wierd Eighties for @thequietus.com
Compilation of the Week: The Sheer Action Of Fini Tribe – 1982-1987 | The Quietus
Joe Muggs looks back beyond rigid gatekeeping to the mad flux of the 1980s and the Scottish band who were outsider art and proto-rave
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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 16h
"The young trumpeter was highly opinionated and highly quotable, and from the beginning the music press, sniffing a possible feud, gave Marsalis’s venting about Miles—he even critiqued the outlandish outfits Miles had taken to wearing onstage, calling them 'dresses'…"

The Icon and the Upstart:
The Icon and the Upstart: On Miles Davis’s Legendary Feud With Wynton Marsalis
In March 1989, I found myself riding an elevator, heart knocking, to the fourteenth floor of the Essex House on Central Park South to interview Miles Davis. It was an assignment I’d lucked into thr…
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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 1d
Thinking about Christmas presents for my wife. Does anyone know what it smells like?
A sign at the Westfield shopping centre. Reading “Please use the escalator by Prada”.
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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 1d
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
Citizen Smith and girlfriend at Antifa HQ
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Bertis Downs @bertisdowns.bsky.social · 3d
Kind of a unique take on a“lyric video”

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Footage from the earliest days of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, with sounds from 1981 and 2025!

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R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe 2025 (Jacknife Lee Remix) RFE/RL Dispatch
YouTube video by remhq
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RK Photographic / Rob Knight @rkphotographic.bsky.social · 3d
The good, the bad and the beautiful: how the great photographer Richard Avedon captured ageing

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The good, the bad and the beautiful: how the great photographer Richard Avedon captured ageing
From a joyful Gloria Swanson to the Windsors looking scared, Avedon spent much of his career shooting the old, the wizened and the wise – uncovering the contradictions of the heart
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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 3d
Wonderful weekend at @orielcolwyn.bsky.social for Northern Eye festival. Lovely to get to know Peter Caton & his long term work in South Sudan, and Kyle McDougall. My highlight though was the talk and work of Margaret Mitchel, including An Ordinary Eden.
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An Ordinary Eden
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Brian David Stevens @briandavidstevens.bsky.social · 3d
I nearly got hit by one of these at an Earl Brutus show
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Sounds Clips @soundsclips.bsky.social · 3d
The Wasp, the synth we can afford reviewed in Sounds 7th, October 1978 by Tony Mitchell and Pic by Ross Halfin.
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Brian David Stevens @briandavidstevens.bsky.social · 4d
Nothing really new there, more of a little ‘greatest hits’ show, but it’s lovely to see the prints
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Brian David Stevens @briandavidstevens.bsky.social · 4d
Nice small exhibition in Tate Modern if you’re in town www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-m...
Josef Koudelka – Display at Tate Modern | Tate
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The Ineffable Horror of Joe Muggs @joemuggs.bsky.social · 5d
Also like me she is obsessed with solar system exploration. Can’t wait to share this one - and of course @briandavidstevens.bsky.social’s regal photos!

Do consider subscribing, it’ll help us do more of these. As ever low income or in education just DM me for free access no questions asked.
Europa in Focus, by Kayla Painter
from the album Fractures
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Hans Holbein the Younger @hansholbein.bsky.social · 5d
Portrait of Bishop John Fisher https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-holbein-the-younger/portrait-of-bishop-john-fisher
Portrait of Bishop John Fisher
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 6d
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 6d
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social · 6d
My bit on Lee Miller - so much better when she gets away from the leering Surrealists!
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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 8d
THE OBSERVER: ‪ The making of Lee Miller observer.co.uk/culture/art/... @theobserveruk.bsky.social‬ @lauracummingart.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #photography‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
The making of Lee Miller | The Observer
Her early work is nothing special, but the American photographer’s response to war and its aftermath stun at Tate Britain
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Nigel Bishop @ashroplad.bsky.social · 5d
Beautiful, powerful emotional! The work of Scottish documentary photographer Margaret Mitchell - chronicling the lives of people with unequal starting points... #Photography
Photographer Margaret Mitchell sits on a chair in a theatre in front of a projector screen showing one of her portraits
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 6d
Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.
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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 8d
Preparing this print for a client today.
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Madeleine Brettingham @littlemaddles.bsky.social · 8d
"The wallpaper was busier maybe, the world was browner, but essentially it was the same world, where telephones were answered with a string of digits and time flowed begrudgingly forwards like gravy."

I wrote about my favourite sitcom of all time.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 9d
australian street style, 1973
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 9d
I’ve written about Waldemar Januszczak’s new documentary, “Art’s Most Erotic”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d
Art’s Most Erotic review – unequivocally filthy TV
Art’s Most Erotic review – unequivocally filthy TV
Art critic Waldemar Januszczak’s Sky documentary is a blisteringly explicit look at the depiction of sex from the giant penises of Pompeii to Shunga porn and Indian love temples. Avert your eyes, prudes!
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MrPaulRobinson @mrpaulrobinson.bsky.social · 9d
Panorama (BBC One, 9pm)
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Brian David Stevens @briandavidstevens.bsky.social · 9d
And thanks for praising sky arts for keeping Waldy on our screens!
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 9d
“jackhammering antique buttocks”

Astonishing “work” here from Sarah (“Sarah”) “Dempster” (Dempster).
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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 9d
I’ve written about Waldemar Januszczak’s new documentary, “Art’s Most Erotic”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d
Art’s Most Erotic review – unequivocally filthy TV
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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 10d
Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.
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Eamonn-Forde @eamonn-forde.bsky.social · 10d
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