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Exhibition: ‘The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History’ at the ONE...
Exhibition dates: 29th June – 7th September 2014 These were the only press images I could get for this exhibition. I would have liked to have seen many more! Marcus . Many thankx to the ONE Archives...
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Exhibition: ‘Cecil Beaton at Wilton’ at Wilton House, Wiltshire and ‘Cecil...
Exhibition dates: Cecil Beaton at Wilton: 3rd May – 14th September 2014 Cecil Beaton at Home: Ashcombe & Reddish: 23rd May – 19th September 2014 Bright Young Things, Costume Balls And Country House...
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Exhibition / text: ‘From Steam to Diesel’ at the Portobello Library, Edinburgh
Exhibition dates: 20th October - 7th November 2014 This is a great project. The photographs are wonderful. At one time they could have almost been made here in Victoria, Australia. Archie Foley who...
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Exhibition: ‘Eyes Wide Open: 100 Years of Leica Photography’ at...
Exhibition dates: 24th October 2014 – 11th January 2015 Curator: Hans-Michael Koetzle A photographic revolution. So much more than just photojournalism… and it has a nice sound as well. “Indiscreet...
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Exhibition: ‘Bruce Davidson/Paul Caponigro: Two American Photographers in...
Exhibition dates: 8th November 2014 – 9th February 2015 Curators: Scott Wilcox and Jennifer A. Watts Individually, the work of these two photographers is outstanding, but together? The premise for...
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Exhibition: ‘Cairo to Constantinople: Early Photographs of the Middle East’...
Exhibition dates: 7th November 2014 – 22nd February 2015 These photographs are absolutely glorious! Bedford had one advantage… what subject matter to work with. The quality is outstanding and the...
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Exhibition: ”Poor man’s picture gallery': Victorian Art and Stereoscopic...
Exhibition dates: 7th October 2014 – 12th April 2015 Curator: Carol Jacobi with Dr Brian May and Denis Pellerin I have always been fascinated by early three-dimensional photography, inexpensive...
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Exhibition: ‘Hold That Pose: Erotic Imagery in 19th Century Photography’ at...
Exhibition dates: 23rd January – 4th September 2015 Kinsey Institute Gallery, Indiana University *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUMAN EROTIC ACTIVITY AND NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT...
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Exhibition: ‘Victorian London in Photographs 1839 to 1901’ at the London...
Exhibition dates: 5th May – 29th October 2015 This is a fascinating exhibition about the history of London portrayed through Victorian era photographs. The best photographs in the posting are by John...
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Text / exhibition: ‘David Bowie is’ at the Australian Centre for the Moving...
Exhibition dates: 16th July – 1st November 2015 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces This text was written for a special LGBTQI themed edition of the peer reviewed journal Fashion, Style and Popular...
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Exhibition: ‘Julia Margaret Cameron: from the Victoria and Albert Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 14th August – 25th October 2015 Curator: Dr Marta Weiss I’m heading up to Sydney on Thursday night, especially to see this exhibition on Friday at the Art Gallery of New South Wales...
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Exhibition: ‘Photography – A Victorian Sensation’ at the National Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 19th June – 22nd November 2015 In our contemporary image-saturated, comprehensively mediated way of life it is difficult for us to understand how “sensational” photography would...
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Exhibition: ‘Goya: The Portraits’ at the National Gallery, London
Exhibition dates: 7th October 2015 – 10th January 2016 Sainsbury Wing Curator: Dr Xavier Bray Rushing through a dimly lit gallery I remember stumbling upon my first, larger than life, full length...
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Exhibition: ‘Gilbert & George: The Art Exhibition’ at the Museum of Old and...
Exhibition dates: 28 November 2015 – 28 March 2016 Gentlemen of the gutter While I admire the mythology of Gilbert and George, that ever so British pair of deviant artists, they have never been among...
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Marcus Bunyan black and white archive: England, 1993
I finally got around to scanning some more of my black and white archive, this time further photographs from a trip to England in 1993 forming a new sequence. The photographs picture my now ageing...
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Exhibition: ‘Painting with Light: Art and Photography from the...
Exhibition dates: 11th May – 25th September 2016 Curators: Dr Carol Jacobi, Curator of British Art 1850-1915 at Tate Britain, and Dr Hope Kingsley, Curator, Education and Collections, Wilson Centre for...
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Exhibition: ‘William Eggleston Portraits’ at the National Portrait Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 21st July to 23rd October 2016 Curator: Phillip Prodger, Head of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery Just look. Really look. And then think about that looking. Minute,...
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Exhibition: ‘London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and...
Exhibition dates: 26th July – 13th November 2016 Curators: Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum; Julian Brooks, curator of Drawings at the Getty Museum; and Elena Crippa , curator,...
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Exhibition: ‘Black Chronicles: Photographic Portraits 1862-1948’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 18th May – 11th December 2016 Some of the earlier photographs in this posting from the 19th and early 20th century are bold and striking. They also make me feel incredibly sad....
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Exhibition: ‘Teller on Mapplethorpe’ at Alison Jacques Gallery, London
Exhibition dates: 18th November 2016 – 7th January 2017 Nothing SALACIOUS . to see here According to a tartly written denigration of Mapplethorpe in particular and more generally of photography...
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