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Posted on 22/05/26 08:54:55 AM |
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Steve Caplin
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Challenge 1106: Space at the Saatchi
I recently visited the Saatchi Gallery in London for an exhibition celebrating its 40th anniversary. For those who aren't aware of him, Charles Saatchi is the former advertising boss who discovered and promoted the Young British Artists movement in the 80s – Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Damien Hirst and others. Walking between galleries took me to this stairwell. Nothing on the walls, nothing hanging in the middle, no view through the window. Surely this space is crying out for an exhibit? High res is here.  |
Posted on 22/05/26 4:01:20 PM |
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lwc
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Posted on 22/05/26 4:35:28 PM |
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DavidMac
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I am a bit stuck on this at the moment. So this really rather dull submission will have to do for now. It seems the gallery is doing a retrospective. I don’t know if these images will mean anything in the US or down under, but Brits will remember them. They were part of a campaign for Silk Cut cigarettes by the Saatchi and Saatchi agency in the late 1980’s and early 1990s. By then advertising regulations forbade the use of images of cigarettes so they came up with an iconic campaign based upon almost abstract images that symbolised the name Silk Cut. I was going to put Charles Saatchi in there but he never attended his gallery’s openings and hid away even from clients. When asked why he replied: "I don't go to other people's openings, so I extend the same courtesy to my own."  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 22/05/26 4:41:19 PM |
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DavidMac
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Oooooops! Double post removed. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 23/05/26 00:14:03 AM |
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lwc
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Posted on 23/05/26 06:45:52 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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In 1984, the Gallaher Group hired Charles Saatchi’s ad agency to design an innovative ad campaign which would obey U.K. cigarette advertising restrictions while still promoting the Silk Cut product. The new ads, which circulated for over a decade, created a visual pun by utilizing purple silk in the ads, representing the royal purple silk ribbon which seals each Silk Cut cigarette box. |
Posted on 23/05/26 06:52:32 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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[quoted] DavidMac wrote: I am a bit stuck on this at the moment. So this really rather dull submission will have to do for now. I used the same theme David. only notice your when I posted |
Posted on 23/05/26 2:01:22 PM |
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DavidMac
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Interesting. Same .... but quite different! I'd never seen any of yours. Every country where Saatchi & Saatchi were a presence had their own office with their own local creatives so the same central idea took different forms in different countries. The one's I used came from France as well as UK. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 23/05/26 10:29:23 PM |
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DavidMac
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 _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 23/05/26 10:51:58 PM |
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DavidMac
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Loyd. Missed yours earlier. Tracy ..... the bad girl who the Brits dealt with in their typical way by absorption rather than rejection. Poor woman's been made respectable. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 24/05/26 04:01:12 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Posted on 24/05/26 09:47:03 AM |
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DavidMac
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That's lovely Ben. It's seamlessly put together, but I have one teeny niggle. I can"t help wondering if your photographer isn't a stilt walker! 
Maybe I am just completely misreading .............  _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 24/05/26 10:23:00 AM |
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lwc
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David – Yes, of the artists Steve alluded to, her work was easiest to incorporate into the image. |
Posted on 24/05/26 11:25:32 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Thanks David 
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Posted on 24/05/26 11:28:41 AM |
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GKB
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I have always thought that it would be nice to have an exhibition of my work so when Charles Saatchi called I agreed. 
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Posted on 24/05/26 11:34:04 AM |
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lwc
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Gordon |
Posted on 24/05/26 11:46:33 AM |
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DavidMac
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Ben. 👌🏻 _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 24/05/26 11:46:33 AM |
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Mariner
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Gordon, that's very elegant and tasteful. Who is the man? Saatchi? It's hard to tell at this size. |
Posted on 24/05/26 11:50:50 AM |
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DavidMac
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Now that's really neat Gordon. I like the way you've let Damien's shark creep into the background. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 24/05/26 12:12:46 PM |
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GKB
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Thanks Loyd, Michael and David. Michael, yes it is Charles Saatchi. _________________  |
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