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Exhibition: ‘Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous: Works from the...
Exhibition dates: 4th June – 11th September 2016 Curator: Keith Hartley Marcus Bunyan Self-portrait with gryphon and Miró (Head of a Catalan Peasant) tattoo, both by Alex Binnie, London 1998 I...
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Exhibition: ‘Ken Domon: Master of Japanese Realism’ at the Museo dell’Ara...
Exhibition dates: 27th May – 18th September 2016 Social Realism I love most Japanese photography of the post-war period (1950s-1970s) and this artist’s work is no exception. What a absolute master of...
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Exhibition: ‘Danny Lyon: Message to the Future’ at the Whitney Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 17th June – 25th September 2016 Curator: Julian Cox This man is a living legend. What a strong body of socially conscious work he has produced over a long period of time. Each...
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Exhibition: ‘Sojourner Truth, Photography, and the Fight Against Slavery’ at...
Exhibition dates: 27th July – 23rd October 2016 ‘I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance’ Former New York slave Sojourner Truth (which literally means “itinerant preacher”) strategically deployed...
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Exhibition: ‘William Eggleston Portraits’ at the National Portrait Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 21st July to 23rd October 2016 Curator: Phillip Prodger, Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery Just look. Really look. And then think about that looking. Minute,...
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Text / Photographs: Mother Boats C.P. (Brian Traynor). ‘Los Angeles Pride...
October 2016 The year was 1970. The year of the first Earth Day, the year that the United States invaded Cambodia, the year when National Guardsmen shot four student demonstrators at an antiwar rally...
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Exhibition: ‘George Tice: Urban Landscapes’ at the Joseph Bellows Gallery, La...
Exhibition dates: 10th September – 28th October 2016 An American iconography George Tice is a master photographer and an exceptional artist. Using a large format 8 x 10 camera this craftsman has...
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Exhibition: ‘Sabine Weiss’ at Jeu de Paume – Château de Tours
Exhibition dates: 18th June – 30th October 2016 A photographer I knew very little about before assembling this posting. The undoubted influence of Henri Cartier-Bresson can be seen in many images...
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Exhibition: ‘Georgia O’Keeffe’ at Tate Modern, London
Exhibition dates: 6th July – 30th October 2016 Curators: Tanya Barson, Curator, Tate Modern with Hannah Johnston, Assistant Curator, Tate Modern. A beautiful world I won’t say much about the work...
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Exhibition: ‘London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and...
Exhibition dates: 26th July – 13th November 2016 Curators: Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Julian Brooks, curator of Drawings at the Getty Museum; and Elena Crippa , curator,...
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Exhibition: ‘Real/Ideal: Photography in France, 1847-1860’ at the J. Paul...
Exhibition dates: 30th August – 27th November 2016 Curator: Karen Hellman, assistant curator of photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum The best fun I had was putting together Nadar’s Self-Portrait...
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Australia in the first decade of the 20th century
November 2016 I have spent hours digitally cleaning these stereocards that I borrowed from my friend Ellie Young and undertaking the research for this posting. And the hours were well worth it....
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Exhibition: ‘diane arbus: in the beginning’ at the Metropolitan Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 12th July – 27th November 2016 Curator: Jeff L. Rosenheim, Curator in Charge of the Department of Photographs at The Met #1 This looks to be a fascinating exhibition, presenting...
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Exhibitions: ‘Beyond Eden: Polixeni Papapetrou / Dutch masters of light:...
Exhibition dates: 22nd October 2016 – 4th December 2016 There was hardly standing room at the opening of Beyond Eden: Polixeni Papapetrou at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne. As for car parking, I...
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Exhibition: ‘Louis Faurer’ at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
Exhibition dates: 9th September – 18th December 2016 Curator: The exhibition has been curated and organized by Agnès Sire, director of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in association with the Estate...
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Exhibition: ‘Black Chronicles: Photographic Portraits 1862-1948’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 18th May – 11th December 2016 Some of the earlier photographs in this posting from the 19th and early 20th century are bold and striking. They also make me feel incredibly sad....
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Exhibition: ‘Lewis Baltz NEVADA’ at Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California
Exhibition dates: 15th November – 30th December 2016 I love this man’s work. Elegant, formalist, classical photographs of man altered landscapes and their environs. New Topographics. From the lineage...
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Photograph: Weegee (Arthur Fellig) ‘Gay Deceiver’ c. 1939
December 2016 I just couldn’t resist a one photo posting – a rarity on Art Blart – because this is ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS! Weggee, flash, a dazzling smile and a lovely pair of stockings … what more...
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Exhibition: ‘Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery...
Exhibition dates: 29th May 2016 – 2nd January 2017 Curators: Sarah Greenough, senior curator, department of photographs, and Philip Brookman, consulting curator, department of photographs, both...
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Exhibition: ‘Thomas Ruff: New Works’ at David Zwirner, New York
Exhibition dates: 18th November 2016 – 5th January 2017 The first posting of a new year and we are off to a cracking start. In my opinion, Thomas Ruff is one of the most creative contemporary...
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