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Postcards: This is a real photograph
June 2015 A selection of black and white postcards that I recently purchased in a secondhand shop. It was fun investigating the publishers and places, especially as three of them contain my surname...
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Exhibition: ‘Modernités. Photographie brésilienne (1940-1964)’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 6th May – 26th July 2015 Curators: Antonio Pinto Ribeiro, Ludger Derenthal and Samuel Titan Jr. Another exhibition on an unusual subject that this website likes supporting: this...
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Exhibition: ‘Fabergé: Jeweler to the Tsars’ at the Oklahoma City Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 20th June – 27th September 2015 Even after nearly six years of making this website, I still get a thrill bringing you the next posting. And what a posting it is. Even as their...
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Exhibition: ‘Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980′ at the...
Exhibition dates: 29th March – 19th July 2015 The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor Dynamic. Evocative. Essential. Surreal. Modern. Beautiful. Intelligent. Futuristic....
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Exhibition: ‘In Light of the Past’ at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Exhibition dates: 3rd May – 26th July 2015 Curators: The curators of In Light of the Past: Celebrating 25 Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art are Sarah Greenough, senior curator and...
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Exhibition: ‘Germaine Krull (1897-1985) A Photographer’s Journey’ at Jeu de...
Exhibition dates: 2nd June 2015 – 27th September 2015 Curator: Michel Frizot, historian of photography Je l’adore cette femme. Je pense que je suis en amour. I absolutely love this women’s art....
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Exhibition: ‘Lee Miller’ at the Albertina, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 8th May – 16th August 2015 Curator: Walter Moser Leave artist’s alone It takes some time to form an opinion as to the merit of Lee Miller’s work, given the amount of photographs...
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Thomas Eakins photography
July 2015 Please click on the photography for a larger version of the image. Marcus For Eakins, the camera was a teaching device comparable to anatomical drawing, a tool the modern artist should...
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Photographs and text: ‘Quandong, New South Wales, Australia’ 1887
July 2015 A fascinating set of albumen prints mounted on cabinet cards of Quandong, New South Wales, Australia in 1887. These images are probably among the first ever taken of the area, most likely...
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Exhibition: ‘Carnival: Photographs by Roger Vail’ at Joseph Bellows Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 11th July – 22nd August, 2015 For the length of each ride I just love these photographs. They are thrilling, like the rides themselves. The photographer Roger Vail comments,...
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Exhibition: ‘The EY Exhibition: Sonia Delaunay’ at Tate Modern, London
Exhibition dates: 15th April – 9th August 2015 Curators: curated at Tate Modern by Juliet Bingham, Curator International Art, with Juliette Rizzi, Assistant Curator. One of my favourite female...
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Exhibition: ‘Crowd Source’ at the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 4th April – 23rd August 2015 There is an almost Dickensian mellow dramatic feel to some of these 1880s-1900 albumen photographs by Sydney photographer Arthur K. Syer. While the...
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Exhibition: ‘Early Photography in Imperial China’ at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Exhibition dates: 5th June – 23rd August 2015 For me, the standout photographs in this posting are Mee Cheung’s rhythmic Buddhist Monks in Chefoo and the work of Baron Raimund von Stillfried und...
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Exhibition: ‘The view from here: The photographic world of Alfred Elliott...
Exhibition dates: 13 February – 30 August 2015 This is more like it… what a find! There are some fascinating punctum (which denote the wounding, personally touching detail which establishes a direct...
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott’ at the Museum of Fine Arts,...
ustExhibition dates: 17th January 2015 – 13th September 2015 Robert and Jane Burke Gallery (Gallery 335) It’s been a really tough time writing the Art Blart recently, as my beloved Apple Pro tower...
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Exhibition: ‘Impressions of Paris: Lautrec, Degas, Daumier, Atget’ and...
Exhibition dates: 17th July 2015 – 20th September 2015 National Gallery of Australia touring exhibition Impressions of Paris: Lautrec, Degas, Daumier, Atget is a particularly dry and uninspiring...
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Exhibition: ‘When we share more than ever’ at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe...
Exhibition dates: 19th June – 20th September 2015 A project for the Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2015 Curators: Dr des. Esther Ruelfs and Teresa Gruber Invited artists: Laia Abril, Ai Weiwei,...
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Exhibition: ‘Storm in a Teacup’ at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Art...
Exhibition dates: 24th July – 27th September 2015 This is the best thematic group exhibition I have seen in Melbourne and surrounds this year. Every piece in the exhibition is visually stimulating...
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Photographs and text: ‘Quandong, New South Wales, Australia’ 1887
July 2015 A fascinating set of albumen prints mounted on cabinet cards of Quandong, New South Wales, Australia in 1887. These images are probably among the first ever taken of the area, most likely...
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Exhibition: ‘Colour my world: handcoloured Australian photography’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 3rd April – 30th September 2015 There has always been a history of hand colouring in photography since its very early days – from daguerreotypes, through ambrotypes, cartes de...
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