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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Play’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center,...
Exhibition dates: 23rd December 2014 – 10th May 2015 The J. Paul Getty Museum always puts on the most interesting photography exhibitions. This looks to be no exception. Marcus . Many thankx to the...
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Exhibition: ‘John Gossage: Three Routines’ at The Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition dates: 22nd January – 3rd May 2015 I freely admit that I knew little about this artist’s work before starting to assemble this posting. Strong, focused, conceptually driven bodies of work...
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Exhibition: ‘Juvenilia: Peter Milne’ at Strange Neighbour, Fitzroy, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 27th February 27th – 28th March, 2015 Curators: Helen Frajman and Linsey Gosper For those of you that remember The Venue, St Kilda and Razor Club, this posting is for you. This is a...
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Exhibition: ‘Tattoo’ at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Exhibition dates: 12th February – 20th September 2015 Because it took such a long time to collate and construct this MONSTER posting will have to last you nearly a week – until next Wednesday anyway....
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Japanese photographic album c.1920-30s Part 2
April 2015 After the blockbuster Tattoo posting, here is a rather more still, quiet posting. Another nine images rescued from the dustbin of history… I bought an anonymous Japanese family...
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Exhibition: ‘Bethan Davies: New York’ at Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla,...
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 9th May, 2015 This stunning suite of large format photographs emanates from an esteemed lineage: the early morning light of Atget’s photographs of Old Paris during that...
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Selection of images part 1
April 2015 A selection of interesting images. The Vanishing Race by Edward S. Curtis is simple, yet one of the best. Already their shadows seem more substantial than their owners. Any photographer...
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Exhibition: ‘Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection,...
Exhibition dates: 13th December 2014 – 19th April 2015 Exhibition coincides with the culmination of the Thomas Walther Collection Project, a four-year research collaboration between MoMA’s curatorial...
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Selection of images part 2
April 2015 Another selection of interesting images. My favourites: the weight of Weston’s Shipyard detail, Wilmington (1935); and the romanticism (Jean-François Millet-esque), sublime beauty of...
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Artist in focus: Larry Fink
April 2015 Hands / Class – Tree, Surface, Root These are magnificent photographs. Fink’s mastery of the picture plane, ensemble, mise-en-scène, chiaroscuro is outstanding. But for me it is the...
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Review: ‘Earth Matters: contemporary photographers in the landscape’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 6th March – 3rd May 2015 The term “landscape” can be ambiguous and is often used to describe a creative interpretation of the land by an artist and the terrain itself. But there is...
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Exhibition: ‘Nicolás Muller (1913-2000). Traces of exile’ at the Château de...
Exhibition dates: 22nd November 2014 – 31st May 2015 Curator: Chema Cones, a freelance curator Another artist whom I knew very little about before researching for this posting. Another human being...
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Exhibition: ‘Hold That Pose: Erotic Imagery in 19th Century Photography’ at...
Exhibition dates: 23rd January – 4th September 2015 Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUMAN EROTIC ACTIVITY AND NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT...
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Exhibition: ‘Hold That Pose: Erotic Imagery in 19th Century Photography’ at...
Exhibition dates: 23rd January – 4th September 2015 Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUMAN EROTIC ACTIVITY AND NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT...
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Exhibition: ‘The Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s: Works from the SAMMLUNG...
Exhibition dates: 13th March – 31st May 2015 Early Cindy Sherman, very good; Francesca Woodman, wow; but Ana Mendieta, you are a star! Marcus . Many thankx to the Hamburger Kunsthalle for allowing me...
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Andy Warhol unplugged 2
May 2015 Andy Warhol being, well … Andy Warhol. Artist, tourist, celebrity, poofter, man about town and spontaneous, thoughtful snapper. The photograph of the Prado at night is superb as are the...
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Exhibition: ‘Hal Fischer, Gay Semiotics, 1977/2014′ at the Fotomuseum...
Exhibition dates: 8th May – 7th June 2015 I remember coming out in 1975, six years after Stonewall, that seismic event that was the out and proud culmination of the resistance to oppression that had...
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Exhibition: ‘The photograph and Australia’ at the Art Gallery of New South...
Exhibition dates: 21st March – 8th June 2015 Curator: Judy Annear, Senior curator of photographs, AGNSW “Cultural theorist Ross Gibson has written that ‘being Australian might actually mean being...
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Exhibition: ‘Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840 – 1860′ at Tate Britain,...
Exhibition dates: 25th February – 7th June 2015 Curators: Carol Jacobi, Curator, British Art 1850-1915, Tate Britain, Simon Baker, Curator, Photography and International Art, Tate, and Hannah Lyons,...
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: Segregation Story’ at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Exhibition dates: 15th November 2014 – 21st June 2015 The more I see of this man’s work, the more I admire it. A sense of history, truth and injustice; a sense of beauty, colour and...
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