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‘The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise’ at the...
Addison Scurlock ‘Family portrait’ c.1925 “Nearly a century’s worth of photographs from the Scurlock studio form a vivid portrait of black Washington, D.C., in all its guises – its challenges and...
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Exhibition: ‘TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945′...
February 7, 2009 – May 31, 2009 . . Alfred Steiglitz ‘New York Central Yard’ 1910 . . Alvin Langdon Coburn ‘Wapping’ 1904 . . “Pictorialism was simultaneously a movement, a philosophy, an aesthetic,and...
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Photographer Gregory Crewdson to present artist’s talk at the Nelson-Atkins...
6pm March 12th 2009 Gregory Crewdson ‘Untitled’ 2006 Gregory Crewdson “Untitled” from the series ‘Beneath the Roses’ 2005 Famed photographer Gregory Crewdson will present the inaugural...
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The Magnum Foundation and the Inge Morath Foundation announce the sixth...
“To take pictures had become a necessity and I did not want to forgo it for anything.” Inge Morath Inge Morath from the work in Regensburg Museums 1999 The Magnum Foundation and the Inge...
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Vale Helen Levitt: Always ‘Here and There’
“For the perfect flaneur, for the passionate spectator, it is an immense joy to set up house in the heart of the multitude, amid the ebb and flow of movement, in the midst of the fugitive and...
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Exhibition: ‘Saul Leiter: New York Reflections’ at the Jewish Historical...
Exhibition dates: 24th October 2011 – 4th March 2012 . “I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though to some it is an old...
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Exhibition: ‘Weegee: Murder Is My Business’ at the International Center of...
Exhibition dates: 20th January – 2nd September 2012 . . Weegee Untitled [Anthony Esposito, booked on suspicion of killing a policeman, New York] January 16, 1941 Silver gelatin photograph ©...
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Exhibition: ‘Irving Penn: Diverse Worlds’ at Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden
Exhibition dates: 16th June 2012 – 9th September 2012 . Many thankx to the Moderna Museet Malmö for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
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Exhibition: ‘Lost Places. Sites of Photography’ at the Hamburger Kunsthalle,...
Exhibition dates: 8th June – 23rd September 2012 . “Fredric Jameson wrote that in the postmodern world, the subject is not alienated but fragmented. He explained that the notion of alienation presumes...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe’ at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art,...
Exhibition dates: 25th May – 30th September 2012 . “Perfection means you don’t question anything about the photograph. There are certain pictures I’ve taken in which you really can’t move that leaf or...
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Exhibition: ‘Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop’ at The...
Exhibition dates at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: 11th October 2012 – 27th January 2013 Exhibition dates at the National Gallery of Art: 17th February – 5th May 2013 . What a fascinating subject....
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Exhibition: ‘Flatlands: photography and everyday space’ at the Art Gallery of...
Exhibition dates: 13th September 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . This posting contains one of my favourite early works by Fiona Hall, Leura, New South Wales (1974, below) which is redolent of all the themes...
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Exhibition: ‘The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker and the Institute of Design’...
Exhibition dates: 25th September, 2012 – 24th February, 2013 . It is a pleasure to able to post more of the tough, no nonsense photographs of Ray. K. Metzker. Atlantic City (1966, below) is an absolute...
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Exhibition: ‘Treasures of the Alfred Stieglitz Center: Photographs from the...
Exhibition dates: 22nd December 2012 – 7th April 2013 . Many thankx to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a...
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Exhibition: ‘Garry Winogrand’ at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Exhibition dates: 9th March – 2nd June 2013 . “Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.” . Garry Winogrand . . Playing God with his film Form and content. Form and content I don’t like the...
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Exhibition: ‘Tim Hetherington / Doug Rickard’ at Stills Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 22nd May to 22nd June 2013 In association with Yossi Milo Gallery and Head On Photo Festival . “Our generation is not attached to this myth of photography as objective reporting...
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Exhibition: ‘At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston’ at...
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 28th July 2013 . Eggleston photographs the obvious with such candour and vigour that simple things become something more: almost interior statements of his mind...
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Exhibition: ‘A World of Bonds: Frederick Sommer’s Photography and...
Exhibition dates: 16th June – 4th August 2013 . Frederick Sommer is not as well known as others in the famous quintet (the others being Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Minor White and Paul Strand). He is...
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Exhibition: ‘Photographic Wonders: American Daguerreotypes from The...
Exhibition dates: 17th May – 25th August 2013 . I love the word “occupationals” to describe portraits of individuals with the hallmarks of their trade. . Many thankx to the Taft Museum of Art for...
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Exhibition: ‘Lewis Hine – Photography for a Change’ at Fotomuseum Winterthur,...
Exhibition dates: 8th June – 25th August 2013 . “While human truth may be ephemeral qualities like justice are not; the struggle is to define justice and to live it. And for artists to display it.” ....
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