Exhibition: ‘Charles Sheeler from Doylestown to Detroit’ at Museum of Fine...
Exhibition dates: 22nd July – 5th November 2017 Charles Sheeler (American, 1883-1965) Side of White Barn, Bucks County, Pennsylvania 1915 Photograph, gelatin silver print © The Lane Collection...
View ArticleVale William Heimerman (1950-2017)
October 2017 Jeff Busby William Heimerman c. 1975-80 Silver gelatin print William Heimerman: the essence of 344 Imagine a gallery in a land far far way, that for a period of 10 years or so...
View ArticleBook review: ‘Walter Mittelholzer Revisited’ from the photo archive of Walter...
December 2017 Scheidegger & Spiess (publisher) Walter Mittelholzer Revisited from the photo archive of Walter Mittelholzer (front cover) Edited by Michael Gasser and Nicole Graf 1st edition,...
View ArticleBook: Photographs from ‘Der Kunstlerische Tanz Unserer Zeit’ [The Artistic...
December 2017 Authors: Hermann and Marianne Aubel Publisher: Karl Robert Langewiesche Vlg. Königstein, 1928. 112 pages, numerous illustrations. Pictures of Isadora Duncan, Nijinski, Anna Pavlova,...
View ArticlePhotographs: Historical Australia Part 1
December 2017 WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following posting may contain images of deceased persons. The last posting of the year, because I am feeling...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Albert Renger-Patzsch: Things’ at Jeu de Paume, Paris
Exhibition dates: 17th October 2017 – 21st January 2018 Curator: Sérgio Mah, Universidade NOVA, Lisboa Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966) Stapelia variegata, Asclepiadaceae 1923 Albert...
View ArticleBook review: ‘The Lumen Seed’ by Judith Crispin (2016)
January 2018 Publisher: Daylight Books Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers should be aware that the posting on this book contains images and names of people who may have since passed...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Jakob Tuggener – Machine time’ at Fotostiftung Schweiz,...
Exhibition dates: 21st October 2017 – 28th January 2018 Curator: Martin Gasser Jakob Tuggener (1904-1988) Fabrik (Factory) (book cover) 1943 Rotapfel Verlag, Erlenbach-Zurich Rare magician,...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Photography in Argentina, 1850-2010: Contradiction and...
Exhibition dates: 16th September 2017 – 28th January 2018 Charles DeForest Fredricks Inmigrantes alemanes en Buenos Aires jugando cartas / German Immigrants in Buenos Aires Playing Cards c. 1852...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Walker Evans’ at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Exhibition dates: 30th September 2017 – 4th February 2018 Curator: Clément Chéroux Walker Evans (1903-1975) Self-Portrait 1927 Gelatin silver print Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,...
View ArticleReview: ‘John Gollings: The history of the built world’ at the Monash Gallery...
Exhibition dates: 2nd December 2017 – 4th March 2018 John Gollings Berman House (Harry Seidler), Joadja, New South Wales 2007 From ancient to modern; different but same This is a solid...
View ArticleAmerican daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes of men
February 2018 J[eremiah] Gurney (American) at 349 Broadway, New York Untitled [Cross-eyed man in three-quarter profile] Nd Half-plate daguerreotype All of these photographs came from the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Quicksilver Brilliance: Adolf de Meyer Photographs’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 4th December 2017 – 18th March 2018 Adolf de Meyer (American (born France), Paris 1868-1946 Los Angeles, California) Water Lilies c. 1906, printed 1912 Platinum print 26.1 x 35.2...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Into the Woods: Trees in Photography’ at the Victoria and Albert...
Exhibition dates: 18th November 2017 – 22nd April 2018 Gustave Le Gray In the Forest of Fontainbleau (Bas-Bréau) 1852 Gold-toned albumen print from waxed paper negative Chauncey Hare Townshend...
View ArticleReview: ‘Shadows of War: Roger Fenton’s Photographs of the Crimea, 1855’ at...
Exhibition dates: 9th November 2018 – 28th April 2019 PLEASE NOTE: I GOT THIS COMPLETELY WRONG – THE EXHIBITION STARTS 9 NOVEMBER 2018! This portrait (below) shows Captain Alexander Leslie-Melville...
View ArticleVale Polixeni Papapetrou (1960-2018)
April 2018 My god, what a loss. I am very sorry to hear of the passing of Polixeni Papapetrou. Sadness indeed… Poli was a wonderful spirit and an incredibly gifted artist. Condolences to Robert...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘In the Beginning: Minor White’s Oregon Photographs’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 9th December 2017 – 6th May 2018 Curated by Julia Dolan PhD, the Minor White Curator of Photography Minor White (American, 1908-1976) Untitled (Union Station Loading Platform)...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Brassaï’ at Fundación MAPFRE, Barcelona
Exhibition dates: 20th February – 13th May 2018 Curator: Mr. Peter Galassi Brassaï (Gyulá Halász, 1899 – 1984) Vista per sota del Pont Royal cap al Pont de Solférino View through the pont Royal...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘In the Beginning: Minor White’s Oregon Photographs’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 9th December 2017 – 6th May 2018 Curated by Julia Dolan PhD, the Minor White Curator of Photography Over two postings, Phase 1 of this exhibition which features one of the greatest...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Raoul Hausmann. Vision in Action’ at Jeu de Paume, Paris
Exhibition dates: 6th February – 20th May 2018 Curator: Cécile Bargues Raoul Hausmann (1886-1971) Untitled (Vera Broïdo) c. 1931 © ADAGP, Paris, 2018 © Berlinische Galerie – Landesmuseum für...
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