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Exhibition: ‘National Geographic: The Past and Future Present’ at Steven...
Exhibition dates: 10th January 10 – 16th February 2013 . A wonderfully eclectic posting! Many thankx to Steven Kasher Gallery for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on...
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Exhibition: ‘The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker and the Institute of Design’...
Exhibition dates: 25th September, 2012 – 24th February, 2013 . It is a pleasure to able to post more of the tough, no nonsense photographs of Ray. K. Metzker. Atlantic City (1966, below) is an absolute...
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Exhibition: ‘South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest...
Exhibition dates: 1st December 2012 – 5th March 2013 . “We were insiders, all three of us: Ernest Cole, Billy Monk, and me. We each photographed from the inside what we most intimately knew. Cole was...
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Review: ‘Jeff Wall Photographs’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGVA, National...
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . “My work is a reconstruction and reconstruction is a philosophical activity. If I can create a drama that has philosophical meaning, that’s...
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Video: ‘Marcus Bunyan – what makes a great photograph?’ at the Centre for...
Event date: Wednesday 5th December 2012 . Dr Marcus Bunyan, writer of the Art Blart blog and image maker, examines one of his favourite photographs – Alexander Gardner’s photograph of one of the...
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Exhibition: ‘Thomas Demand’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . Sitting here in my non-airconditioned flat trying to survive Melbourne’s autumn heatwave is no fun; my mind has turned to mush. So instead of...
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Photographs: Anonymous motor vehicle wizbang thingamabobs
. A friend sent these to me and I thought you might enjoy them. He supplied nothing of the vehicle type, country, year, photographer, etc… so I have undertaken some judicious research and surmised the...
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Review: ‘Shrouds’ by Mike Reid at the Colour Factory Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 8th March – 30th March 2013 . “Any discovery changing the nature, or the destination of an object or phenomenon constitutes a Surrealist achievement. Already the automats are...
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Exhibition: ‘Primrose – Russian Colour Photography’ at Foam, Amsterdam
Exhibition dates: 25th January – 3rd April 2013 . A bumper posting on a fascinating subject. The portrait of Tolstoy is incredible; more poignant are the photographs pre-World War I (the last days of...
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Exhibition: ‘Treasures of the Alfred Stieglitz Center: Photographs from the...
Exhibition dates: 22nd December 2012 – 7th April 2013 . Many thankx to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a...
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Exhibition: ‘Light from the Middle East: New Photography’ at the Victoria and...
Exhibition dates: 13th November 2012 – 7th April 2013 From the Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography at the V&A and the British Museum . A massive posting on a fascinating subject. I...
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Exhibition: ‘Candida Höfer: A Return to Italy’ at Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
Exhibition dates: 12th February – 12th April 2013 . Ah symmetry, that vague sense of harmonious and beautiful proportion and balance, that patterned self-similarity that, through Hofer’s large format...
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Exhibition: ‘Don McCullin: A Retrospective’ at the National Gallery of...
Exhibition dates: 1st February – 14th April 2013 . “Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel what you’re looking at, then you’re never going to get others to feel anything...
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: Centennial’ at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco
Exhibition dates: 21st February – 27th April 2013 . What an admirable photographer Gordon Parks was. It is a joy to see five of his colour photographs in this posting because I have never seen any...
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Review: ‘Aliza Levi / Books on a White Background’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 10th April – 4th May 2013 . Aura of white Shadow of black Books for the boys * Black bodies out the back . . . * Books for the bourgeois * Books for the parlour * Books for the...
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Exhibition: ‘The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 18th April 2012 – 29th April 2013 . Another fascinating exhibition and a bumper posting to boot (pardon the pun!) A panoply of famous photographers along with a few I had never heard...
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Exhibition: ‘Roman Vishniac Rediscovered’ at the International Center of...
Exhibition dates: 18th January – 5th May 2013 . “By repositioning Vishniac’s iconic photographs of Eastern Europe within the broader tradition of social documentary photography, and introducing...
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Exhibition: ‘Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop’ at The...
Exhibition dates: 17th February – 5th May 2013 . Further images from this impressive exhibition devoted to the art of photographic manipulation before the advent of digital imagery from its second...
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Exhibition: ‘The Greatest Wonder of the World’ at the State Library of New...
Exhibition dates: 23rd Feb 2013 – 12th May 2013 . Another fascinating posting, this time featuring Australian colonial photography. In 1951, a hoard of 3,500 glass plate negatives from the nineteenth...
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Exhibition: ‘Laure Albin Guillot: The Question of Classicism’ at Jeu de...
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 12th May 2013 . The ravishing sensuality of the nudes make all the hours spent assembling this blog worthwhile! . Many thankx to Jue de Paume for allowing me to...
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