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Review: Polixeni Papapetrou ‘A Performative Paradox’ and Daniel von Sturmer...
Exhibition dates: 24th May – 14th July 2013 . Two solid if not overly memorable exhibitions are presented at the Centre for Contemporary Photography. Polixeni Papapetrou A Performative Paradox is a bit...
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Text: ‘Ernest Cole: Journeys through photojournalism, social documentary...
Exhibition dates: 7th April – 7th July 2013 . . Ernest Cole: Journeys through photojournalism, social documentary photography and art Dr Marcus Bunyan . Abstract This text investigates the trajectory...
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Exhibition: ‘Experience Civil War Photography: From the Home Front to the...
Exhibition dates: 1st August 2012 – 31st July 2013 . Many thankx to the Smithsonian Castle for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
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Text: ‘Un/settling Aboriginality’ Dr Marcus Bunyan / Exhibition: ‘Brook...
Exhibition dates: 15th June – 20th July 2013 . Many thankx to Tolarno Gallery 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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Openings: ‘John Cato Retrospective’ / Erika Diettes ‘Sudarios (Shrouds)’ at...
Opening date: 17th August 2013 BiFB dates: 17th August – 15th September 2013 Venue: The Mining Exchange, 12 Lydiard Street North, Ballarat Opening hours: 9am – 5pm daily . . I have the great honour of...
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Review: ‘As far as I know’ by Katrin Koenning and Jessie Boylan at The Colour...
Exhibition dates: 4th July – 27th July 2013 . “…the work itself – which describes various traces of industry and built history amid the expanses of rural and outback Australia – is of a much subtler...
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Exhibition: ‘At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston’ at...
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 28th July 2013 . Eggleston photographs the obvious with such candour and vigour that simple things become something more: almost interior statements of his mind...
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Exhibition: ‘A World of Bonds: Frederick Sommer’s Photography and...
Exhibition dates: 16th June – 4th August 2013 . Frederick Sommer is not as well known as others in the famous quintet (the others being Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Minor White and Paul Strand). He is...
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Exhibition: ‘Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part I’...
Exhibition dates: 9th June 9 2013 – 17th May 2015 . Another group of interesting colonial African photographs from The Walther Collection. Similar in scope to the 20 volume series The American Indian...
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Exhibition: ‘Pieter Hugo: This Must Be The Place – Selected Works 2003-2012′...
Exhibition dates: 24th May – 11th August 2013 . I have not seen enough of the other series of Pieter Hugo to make an informed decision, but work from the The Hyena & Other Men (2005-2007) and...
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Exhibition: ‘Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light’ at The Museum of Modern Art, New...
Exhibition dates: 6th March – 12th August 2013 . “Brandt ranks among the visionaries who, in the diversity of their approach, established the creative potential of photography based on observation of...
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Exhibition: ‘The Naked Truth and More Besides: Nude Photography around 1900′...
Exhibition dates: 3rd May – 25th August 2013 . Many thankx to the Museum for Photography for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
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Exhibition: ‘Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and...
Exhibition dates: 26th March – 25th August 2013 . According to the press release, “Hamaya focused inward toward rural life on the back coast of Japan, [while] Yamamoto found inspiration in the art of...
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Exhibition: ‘Photographic Wonders: American Daguerreotypes from The...
Exhibition dates: 17th May – 25th August 2013 . I love the word “occupationals” to describe portraits of individuals with the hallmarks of their trade. . Many thankx to the Taft Museum of Art for...
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Opening / Exhibition: ‘Sudarios (Shrouds)’ by Erika Diettes at the Mining...
Exhibition dates: 17th August – 15th September 2013 Entry free, open daily 10 am – 5pm . This exhibition is one of the core programs for this year’s Ballarat International Foto Biennale and I had the...
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Exhibition: ‘Lewis Hine – Photography for a Change’ at Fotomuseum Winterthur,...
Exhibition dates: 8th June – 25th August 2013 . “While human truth may be ephemeral qualities like justice are not; the struggle is to define justice and to live it. And for artists to display it.” ....
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Exhibition: ‘Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography’ at WestLicht...
Exhibition dates: 11th June – 25th August 2013 . “The modern city with its multi-storey buildings, plants, factories [...], all this [...] has changed the psychology of the traditional perception to a...
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Exhibition: ‘Christian Lutz, Trilogy’ at The Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
Exhibition dates: 5th June – 1st September 2013 . Power: it will corrupt you, but if you don’t want it, it will be used against you. PS. Some, if not all, of these people seem like marionettes! . Many...
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Exhibition: ‘Photography and the American Civil War’ at the Metropolitan...
Exhibition dates: 2nd April – 2nd September 2013 BE WARNED, LIKE “INCIDENTS OF WAR”, THIS POSTING IS DISTURBING AND NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED! . “It was, indeed, a ‘harvest of death.’ . . . Such a...
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Exhibition: ‘Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles’ at The Frist Center for...
Exhibition dates: 14th June – 15th September 2013 . OMG, OMG, OMG a bumper posting of car porn! Some of these are just ravishing (my favourite is the Hispano-Suiza H6B Dubonnet “Xenia” Coupe, 1938) and...
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