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Exhibition: ‘Reading the modern photography book: changing perceptions’ at...

Exhibition dates: 18th January – 26th April 2009 Looks a great exhibition for fans of photography books! The notes in the exhibition brochure pdf are useful and the slide show of images is excellent....

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Exhibition: ‘Hyper’ by Denis Darzacq at Australian Centre for Photography...

Exhibition dates: Friday 13th March – Sunday 12th April 2009   “The astonishing photographs that make up Hyper involve no digital manipulation, just close collaboration between young dancers and...

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Exhibition: ‘Of Life and Loss: The Polish Photographs of Roman Vishniac and...

Exhibition dates: April 15 – July 12, 2009   Hardly any photographs by Jeffrey Gusky online but he has provided some via email. I will post them asap. Thankyou very much Jeff for contacting me. I...

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Exhibition: ‘The Lives of Great Photographers’ at The National Media Museum,...

Exhibition dates: 15th April – 4th September 2011 . Many thankx to The National Media Museum for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...

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Exhibition: ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson / Paul Strand, Mexico 1932 – 1934′ at HCB...

Exhibition dates: 11th January – 22nd April 2012 . “The American’s immobility contrasts with [the] Frenchman’s fluidity.” Press releases should be very careful when making such sweeping...

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Exhibition: ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson. The Geometry of the Moment “Landscapes’”...

Exhibition dates: 3rd September 2011 – 13th May 2012 . Many thankx to the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...

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Exhibition: ‘Before Color: William Eggleston’ at Nederlands Fotomuseum,...

Exhibition dates: 16th June – 26th August 2012 . . “As these rediscovered prints reveal, the man who made colour photography into an artform worked brilliantly in monochrome – and his eye for...

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Exhibitions: ‘Howard Greenberg, Collection’ and ‘Freaks, The Monstrous...

Exhibition dates: both 21st September 2012 – 6th January 2013 . This is a meta-post where I have brought together photographs from the second exhibition Freaks, The Monstrous Parade: Photographs from...

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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: ‘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...

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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: ‘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: ‘Photography at NOMA’ at The New Orleans Museum of Art

Exhibition dates: 10th November 2013 – 19th January 2014 . There are some rare and beautiful photographs in this posting. I have never seen the Kertész (Leger’s Studio 1926 – 1927) with its wonderful...

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Exhibition: ‘Emmet Gowin’ at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris

Exhibition dates: 14th May – 27th July 2014   Emmet Gowin is a superlative photographic artist. His images possess a unique sensuality that no other artist, save Frederick Sommer, dare approach. His...

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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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Selection of images part 2

April 2015   Another selection of interesting images. My favourites: the weight of Weston’s Shipyard detail, Wilmington (1935); and the romanticism (Jean-François Millet-esque), sublime beauty of...

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Exhibition: ‘Wayne Gudmundson: Trees of Burgundy’ at Joseph Bellows Gallery,...

Exhibition dates: 7th November – 23rd December 2015   There is a Cartier Bresson of a group of roadside trees that makes a heart. There is the photography of Wim Wenders in “Kings of the Road.” There...

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Exhibition: ‘The world is beautiful: photographs from the collection’ at the...

Exhibition dates: 4th December 2015 – 10th April 2016   Despite a focus on the camera’s relationship to the beauty and pure form of the modern world – “the attraction and charm of the surface” – these...

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Exhibition: ‘Surveillance’ at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City,...

Exhibition dates: 16th September 2016 – 29th January 2017   This looks to be a fascinating exhibition on a very interesting subject. It’s such a pity I cannot comment on the exhibition itself due to...

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Exhibition: ‘Under the Mexican Sky: A Revolution in Modern Photography’ at...

Exhibition dates: 1st June – 28th July 2019     Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958) Dr. Federico Marín, Jean Charlot, and Tina Modotti 1925 Vintage gelatin silver print 7 ½ x 9 ¼ inches   Shown with...

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