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Exhibition: ‘A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 8th February – 5th October 2014 The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor Curators: Organized by Quentin Bajac, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator, with Lucy...
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Exhibition: ‘A World of Its Own: Photographic Practices in the Studio’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 8th February – 5th October 2014 The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor Curators: Organized by Quentin Bajac, The Joel and Anne Ehrenkranz Chief Curator, with Lucy...
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Exhibition: ‘Sharp, Clear Pictures: Edward Steichen’s World War 1 and Condé...
Exhibition dates: 24th June – 13th October 2014 Brave man, hanging over the side of a rickety biplane at 15,000 feet taking aerial photographs during World War One but just look at the images he...
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Exhibition: ‘Paul-Martial’s World Of Ordinary Things’ at Kunstmuseum Basel...
Exhibition dates: 5th July – 19th October 2014 My god, how can a dryer hood become so sensual? It should have been Paul-Martial’s World of Extra-Ordinary Things! Marcus . Many thankx to the...
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Review: ‘Crossing Paths with Vivian Maier’ at the Centre for Contemporary...
Exhibition dates: 3rd October – 26th October 2014 Artists: Cherine Fahd, Vivian Maier, Gabriella Mangano and Silvana Mangano, Debra Phillips, Patrick Pound, Clare Rae, Simone Slee, David Wadelton And...
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Vale René Burri
Another strong, passionate photographer has gone. One of his best images and one of my favourites is Men on a rooftop (1960, below). For more images see my earlier posting René Burri: A Retrospective...
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Exhibition: ‘The World c. 1914. Colour Photography Before the Great War’ at...
Exhibition dates: 1st August - 2nd November 2014 Albert Kahn, Sergej M. Prokudin-Gorskii, Adolf Miethe One of the most beautiful postings that I have ever done on the blog. The colours, the people,...
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Exhibition: ‘Bushido: Way of the Samurai’ at NGV International, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 4th July – 4th November 2014 This is a most beautiful and refined exhibition. Despite the ferocity of the samurai, their armour is exquisite. The golden screens, the horse...
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Review: ‘Victor Hugo: Les Misérables – From Page to Stage’ at the State...
Exhibition dates: 18th July - 9th November 2014 Devour the main course but don’t stay for dessert This is an exhibition in two galleries. In the first you are not allowed to take photographs but in...
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Exhibition / text: ‘From Steam to Diesel’ at the Portobello Library, Edinburgh
Exhibition dates: 20th October - 7th November 2014 This is a great project. The photographs are wonderful. At one time they could have almost been made here in Victoria, Australia. Archie Foley who...
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Exhibition: ‘Walker Evans. A Life’s Work’ at Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Exhibition dates: 25th July - 9th November 2014 End of the week. Not a lot of energy or time to write an in depth piece on the wonders of Walker Evans, so just a few observations… I like this...
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Exhibition: ‘Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960′...
Exhibition dates: 19th September – 13rd December 2014 Artists: Thomas Barrow, Wayne Belger, Stephen Berkman, Matthew Brandt, Dan Burkholder, Darryl Curran, Binh Danh, Rick Dingus, Dan Estabrook, Robert...
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Japanese photographic album c.1920-30s Part 1
November 2014 I bought an anonymous Japanese family photographic album from Daylesford in country Victoria recently for $25 (US$20). There were many images missing, but the thirty that were present...
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Exhibition: ‘War from the Victims’ Perspective, Photographs by Jean Mohr’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November – 14th December 2014 An exhibition produced by the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, and the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs It’s always the women and children that...
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Review: ‘PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS FEMINISM: Australian women photographers...
Exhibition dates: 17th October – 7th December 2014 Artists: Micky Allan, Pat Brassington, Virginia Coventry, Sandy Edwards, Anne Ferran, Sue Ford, Christine Godden, Helen Grace, Janina Green, Fiona...
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Exhibition: ‘Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma,...
Exhibition dates: 21 September 2014 – 4th January 2015 To my mind, Captain Linnaeus Tripe is one of the best of the Victorian photographers. So early on in the history of photography, for such a...
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Exhibition: ‘Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma,...
Exhibition dates: 21 September 2014 – 4th January 2015 Part two of this wonderful posting, including Tripe’s most famous photograph: Elephant Rock, End View, January – February 1858 (below). . Many...
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Edmund Pearce Gallery to close
One of the few dedicated commercial photography galleries in Melbourne has decided to close its doors. Such a pity “that the depth and breadth of the Australian market is not sufficient to sustain a...
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Exhibition: ‘Irving Penn, Resonance’ at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Exhibition dates: 13th April – 31st December 2014 Curated by Pierre Apraxine and Matthieu Humery Irving Penn’s platinum photographs fetch tens of thousands of dollars at auction. I could think of...
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Exhibition: ‘Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer’ at the MMK Museum für Moderne...
Exhibition dates: 27th September 2014 – 4th January 2015 This exhibition looks fantastic. I really love the sensitivity and melancholy of the individual images, I just wish I could see the whole...
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