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Exhibition: ‘Gillian Wearing’ at Whitechapel Gallery, London
Exhibition dates: 28th March – 17th June 2012 Galleries 1, 8 and Victor Petitgas Gallery . Many thankx to the Whitechapel Gallery for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click...
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Exhibition: ‘Irving Penn: Diverse Worlds’ at Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden
Exhibition dates: 16th June 2012 – 9th September 2012 . Many thankx to the Moderna Museet Malmö for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
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Exhibition: ‘Famous in the Fifties: Photographs by Daniel Farson’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 19th March – 16th September 2012 . My god, how beautiful is the young Adam Faith! Since I didn’t know some of these people I have posted brief biographies. From the biographies we...
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Exhibition: ‘Edouard Baldus and the Modern Landscape. Important Salt Prints...
Exhibition dates: 12th October – 9th November 2012 . A beautiful, complimentary post to the last one on the exhibition Eugène Atget: Old Paris. It is interesting to compare the styles of the two...
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Artwork: Hamzeh Carr. Lord Buddha. 1926
. Absolutely divine. In the flesh, the colouring and radiance of these plates has to be seen to be believed. God they knew how to print back then! I shall be posting more of these stunning works over...
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Exhibition: ‘William Klein + Daido Moriyama’ at the Tate Modern, London
Exhibition dates: 10th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . Many thankx to the Tate Modern for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
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Exhibition: ‘Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour’ at Somerset House, London
Exhibition dates: 8th November 2012 – 27th January 2013 . They may be channelling the master, but none does it like Cartier-Bresson. There is a spareness and spatial intensity to Cartier-Bresson’s work...
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Exhibition: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . Part 4 of the biggest posting on one exhibition that I have ever undertaken on Art Blart! As befits the gravity of the subject matter this...
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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: ‘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...
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Exhibition: ‘Gilbert & George – London Pictures’ at MKM Museum Küppersmühle...
Exhibition dates: 20th March 20 – 30th June 2013 . I used to think that Gilbert & George’s work was inventive and relevant, that it had something important to say about contemporary culture. These...
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Exhibition: ‘Another Country: Vintage Photographs of British Life by Tony...
Exhibition dates: 11th September – 11th October 2013 . What a loss to the world when this photographer died aged just thirty. His eye was magnificent. He seems to have instinctively known how to...
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Exhibition: ‘Edith Tudor Hart – In the Shadow of Tyranny’ at the Wien Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 26th September 2013 – 12th January 2014 . More images from this wonderful photographer who was a low-level Soviet agent while exiled in Britain after the Second World War and who...
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Exhibition: ‘Philip-Lorca diCorcia: Photographs 1975–2012′ at the De Pont...
Exhibition dates: 5th October 2013 - 19th January 2014 . . This is (our) reality. . . Many thankx to the De Pont museum of contemporary art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting....
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Exhibition: ‘Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) Photographs, drawings and...
Exhibition dates: 15th October 2013 – 26th January 2014 . Considering the nature of Blumenfeld’s collages such as Grauenfresse / Hitler, Holland, 1933 and Minotaur / Dictator I would say that the...
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Exhibition: ‘Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr’...
Exhibition dates: 21st September 2013 – 16th March 2014 . “Be more aware of composition Don’t take boring pictures Get in closer Watch camera shake Don’t shoot too much” . Tony Ray-Jones from his...
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Review: ‘Wildcards: Bill Henson shuffles the deck’ at Monash Gallery of Art,...
Exhibition dates: 1st February – 30th March 2014 . . Installation photographs of Wildcards: Bill Henson shuffles the deck at the Monash Gallery of Art 1/ stygian gloom 2/large grouping of 14 works by...
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Exhibition: ‘A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography’ at The J. Paul...
Exhibition dates: 4th February – 8th June 2014 Exhibition includes major loans from Royal Collection Trust There are some glorious photographs in this posting. The serene Buckingham Palace with open...
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Exhibition and videos: ‘Richard Mosse: The Enclave’– winner of Deutsche Börse...
Exhibition dates: 11th April – 22nd June 2014 Men are bastards. War is bastardry. Bastardry: the unpleasant behaviour of a bastard (objectionable person). “Beauty is effective, the sharpest tool...
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Exhibition: ‘Blow-Up: Antonioni’s Film Classic and Photography’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 30th April – 17th August 2014 The act of looking and the gaze through the eye of a photographer’s camera are the central motifs of Blow-Up. “Don McCullin created the iconographic...
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