The veteran photographer made the comments in an interview with the Telegraph after announcing a new exhibition will take place next year at the National Portrait Gallery. Bailey's Stardust will include 250 of the 75-year-old's best known works and will run from February until June 2014. ...read
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From an old-fashioned barbers, quaint bakery and traditional Irish pub - the town of Bushmills is the picture of a thriving community.
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Real life karate kids! Photographer creates bizarre images of babies doing one-handed press-ups, muscle poses and kung-fu kicks
Commercial photographer Eric Sahrmann, 36, is behind the incredible shots, each of which involved merging 15 different photos. Along with a tiny version of the Incredible Hulk, the images include a baby doing a press up with one arm behind his back and a little black belt upending a stack of Duplo bricks with a well-placed kick. ...read
The beauty that lies beneath: Maths teacher stuns the photography world with incredible pictures of life beneath 12mile Alaskan glacier
It may look like another planet, but these spectacular photographs were taken beneath the Mendenhall Glacier in the remote Alaskan wildernesse. The creative talent behind the shots has often been accused of using CGI or Photoshop to doctor the images. But 31-year-old Kent Mearig insists that by lining up the inside of the glacial tunnel with the rising sun, nature creates the impressive light show without any outside interference. ...read
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From dusk to dawn: Photographer creates amazing cityscapes showing the transition from night to day
Artist Fong Qi Wei was keen to invent a way to show how scenes change over time, without resorting to a video camera or time-lapse photography. So he captured multiple pictures of the same sites over the course of a day, before splicing them together into a single image taken over several hours.
Dew drops on a damselfly: Photographer captures super-sharp images of insects glistening in the morning sun
Polish photographer Adam Tomaszewski captured these remarkable pictures of damselflies, showing up-close the thousands of lenses that make up their eyes. Mr Tomaszewski took the photos of them at 4am to get the best effect.
Photographer creates out of this world portraits using images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
Artist Sergio Albiac has set out to prove we really are all stardust with an out-of-this world collection of portraits using images from the Hubble telescope. Albiac, a computer science engineer based in Barcelona, has written software that turns photos submitted by the public into portraits created from a palette of shots of stars and galaxies photographed by the Hubble telescope.
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Hotel Cabana (Virgin EMI)
Raised on Bollywood tracks and British dance, producer Naughty Boy (Shahid Khan) used his Deal Or No Deal winnings to launch a pop career. This solo debut relies on guests, including Ed Sheeran, and is boosted by Khan’s ear for a memorable hook on the benchmark singles Wonder and La La La.
★★★✩✩
Roaring ’20s (Island)
Brighton pair Jordan Stephens and Harley Alexander-Sule recall the energetic beats and brass of 2-Tone bands like The Specials and Madness on this infectious second album. There is a jazzy cameo, too, by Jamie Cullum, and a nod to EMF’s Unbelievable on future hit Get To The Good Bit.
★★★✩✩
Head In The Dirt (Innovative Leisure)
Fans of The White Stripes and Black Keys will love the raucous blues-rock of San Francisco’s Hanni El Khatib. The taut guitar work and vocal yelps range from the white reggae of The Clash to the hard riffs of Free. Made with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, this is old-fashioned rock ‘n’ roll.
★★★✩✩
Hyde Park Live (iTunes)
Fresh from their Glastonbury triumph, the Stones were in imperious form when their 50 And Counting tour hit London for two sold-out Hyde Park shows. This download-only release contains highlights from their two London concerts, 44 years after their Hyde Park debut in July 1969. Kicking off with Start Me Up and the Chuck Berry riffing of It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll, the band race through a set featuring the funky blues of Emotional Rescue and head-down boogie of Midnight Rambler. Even shorn of Sir Mick’s stage gyrations, this extravaganza proves why they’ve been such a hit this summer.
*****
The Civil Wars (Columbia)
Championed by Adele, the Nashville duo have made an alt-country masterpiece of a second album. Yet ‘irreconcilable differences’ mean they won’t be touring. Bizarre.
****
Vagrant Stanzas (Topic)
Inspired by nights of swapping songs with his neighbour Richard Hawley, this marks the folk maestro’s 40th year in music. From ballads to Dylan covers, its intimacy is powered by wondrous guitar.
****
Pioneer (Decca)
With country crossover still blossoming, The Band Perry could soon rival Taylor Swift as the genre’s standard bearers. In singer-guitarist Kimberly Perry, the three Mississippi siblings have a compelling focal point. She is at ease with bluegrass ballads and traditional Nashville fare, but also plays the good girl gone bad with aplomb on the high-octane Night Gone Wasted.
★★★★✩
Settle (PMR)
Guy and Howard Lawrence are British dance music’s hottest new act, and this debut shows the Surrey brothers’ appealing lightness of touch and impressive production skills. The pair blend different rhythmic strands into a slick, poppy whole. By mixing the simmering electronics of Nineties house music with soulful guest singers — Eliza Doolittle and Jessie Ware — their debut marks a sea-change in British dance.
★★★★★
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