Exhibition: ‘Arnold Newman: Masterclass’ at the Harry Ransom Center, The...
Exhibition dates: 12th February – 12th May 2013 . Many thankx to the Harry Ransom Center for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art’...
Exhibition dates: 26th January – 12th May 2013 . A second tranche of images from this touring exhibition of photographs from the MoMA collection, presented at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Gilles Caron, The Conflict Within’ at The Musée de l’Elysée,...
Exhibition dates: 30th January – 12th May 2013 . Dead at 30 Died so young Probably at the barrel of a snub nosed gun. Guilt, narcissism, parody or irony Doesn’t matter now He’s dead… Photos live on ....
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part...
Exhibition dates: 22nd March – 18th May 2013 . Undertaking research in to the work of South African photographer Ernest Cole, I wanted to know more about “South African colonial photography”...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part...
Exhibition dates: 22nd March – 18th May 2013 . Part 2 of the posting about the exhibition Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part III. I have added notes under some of the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: 100 Moments’ at New York State Museum
Exhibition dates: 26th January – 19th May 2013 . The more I see the work of this outstanding artist, the more I fall in love with it. There is just a beautiful lyricism here – nothing extraneous or...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Concrete – Photography and Architecture’ at Fotomuseum...
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 20th May 2013 . When creating this blog, so much of my time is spent cleaning up clearly inadequate media images, an example of which can be seen below. I have become very...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Saul Leiter’ at Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 31st January – 26th May 2013 . “I like it when one is not certain of what one sees. We don’t know why the photographer has taken such a picture. If we look and look, we begin to see...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Yang Fudong: “Estranged Paradise. Works 1993 – 2013″‘ at...
Exhibition dates: 6th April – 26th May 2013 . Many thankx to the Kunsthalle Zürich for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Edith Tudor-Hart: In the Shadow of Tyranny’ at the Scottish...
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 26th May 2013 . Another photographer unknown to me, who ”attempted to use the camera as a political weapon, aligning her practice with the wider worker photography...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of...
Exhibition dates: 15th February – 26th May 2013 . NEVER AGAIN! . Many thankx to Haus der Kunst for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Garry Winogrand’ at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Exhibition dates: 9th March – 2nd June 2013 . “Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.” . Garry Winogrand . . Playing God with his film Form and content. Form and content I don’t like the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Harry Callahan Retrospective’ at the House of Photography at...
Exhibition dates: 22nd March – 9th June 2013 . Great to see some early colour photographs from this master. . Many thankx to the House of Photography, Deichtorhallen Hamburg for allowing me to publish...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951′ at The...
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 16th June 2013 . Conscience of the brave Bradley Manning. A slight, bespectacled, intelligent gay man. A man who has the courage of his convictions. He revealed truth at...
View ArticlePhotograph: Unknown artist. ‘Untitled [Man posing on harbour wall]‘ French c....
. A photograph that I have been scanning for Nick Henderson, the negative of which he bought at auction. A great negative, well exposed, with an unusual background for a physique photograph. American?...
View ArticleReview: ‘Lee Grant / Belco Pride’ at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 5th June – 22nd June 2013 . In Belco Pride, the photographer Lee Grant comes as close as you are ever likely to come to an Australian version of the American photographer Alec Soth...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Tim Hetherington / Doug Rickard’ at Stills Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 22nd May to 22nd June 2013 In association with Yossi Milo Gallery and Head On Photo Festival . “Our generation is not attached to this myth of photography as objective reporting...
View ArticleReview: ‘Johsel Namkung: A Retrospective’ published by Cosgrove Editions, 2013
Published by Cosgrove Editions, Johsel Namkung • A Retrospective is a collection of one hundred exquisite images selected from a remarkable career in photography spanning six decades. . . “I like to...
View ArticleMarcus Bunyan black and white archive: South Yarra and surrounds, 1994
. I am scanning my negatives made during the years 1991 – 1997 to preserve them in the form of an online archive as a process of active memory, so that the images are not lost forever. These...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘The Naked Man’ at Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
Exhibition dates: 23rd March – 30th June 2013 . Many thankx to the Ludwig Museum for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
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