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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: ‘Walker Evans. A Life’s Work’ at Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Exhibition dates: 25th July – 9th November 2014 End of the week. Not a lot of energy or time to write an in depth piece on the wonders of Walker Evans, so just a few observations… I like this...
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Exhibition: ‘The New Landscape: Experiments in Light by Gyorgy Kepes’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 23rd July – 17th November 2014 Way to go… Abstract Expressionists eat your heart out! Marcus . Many thankx to the Cantor Arts Center for allowing me to publish the photographs in...
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Exhibition: ‘Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960′...
Exhibition dates: 19th September – 13rd December 2014 Artists: Thomas Barrow, Wayne Belger, Stephen Berkman, Matthew Brandt, Dan Burkholder, Darryl Curran, Binh Danh, Rick Dingus, Dan Estabrook, Robert...
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Japanese photographic album c.1920-30s Part 1
November 2014 I bought an anonymous Japanese family photographic album from Daylesford in country Victoria recently for $25 (US$20). There were many images missing, but the thirty that were present...
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Review: ‘Polixeni Papapetrou: Lost Psyche’ at Stills Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 29th October - 29th November 2014 “Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.” . Paul Klee. Creative Credo [Schöpferische Konfession] 1920 When “facing”...
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Exhibition: ‘War from the Victims’ Perspective, Photographs by Jean Mohr’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November – 14th December 2014 An exhibition produced by the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, and the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs It’s always the women and children that...
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Review: ‘PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS FEMINISM: Australian women photographers...
Exhibition dates: 17th October – 7th December 2014 Artists: Micky Allan, Pat Brassington, Virginia Coventry, Sandy Edwards, Anne Ferran, Sue Ford, Christine Godden, Helen Grace, Janina Green, Fiona...
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Exhibition: ‘RealSurreal. Masterpieces of Avant-Garde Photography Das Neue...
Exhibition dates: 15th November 2014 – 6th April 2015 The artists Eugène Atget – Herbert Bayer – Hans Bellmer – Aenne Biermann – Brassaï – František Drtikol – Jaromír Funke – Florence Henri – André...
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Exhibition/text: ‘Everyday imagining: new perspectives on Outsider art’ at...
Exhibition dates: 1st October 2014 – 18th January 2015 Artists: Andrew Blythe, Kellie Greaves, Julian Martin, Jack Napthine, Lisa Reid, Martin Thompson and Terry Williams Curator: Joanna Bosse This...
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Exhibition: ‘Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma,...
Exhibition dates: 21 September 2014 – 4th January 2015 To my mind, Captain Linnaeus Tripe is one of the best of the Victorian photographers. So early on in the history of photography, for such a...
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Exhibition: ‘Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma,...
Exhibition dates: 21 September 2014 – 4th January 2015 Part two of this wonderful posting, including Tripe’s most famous photograph: Elephant Rock, End View, January – February 1858 (below). . Many...
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Edmund Pearce Gallery to close
One of the few dedicated commercial photography galleries in Melbourne has decided to close its doors. Such a pity “that the depth and breadth of the Australian market is not sufficient to sustain a...
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Season’s Greetings from Art Blart 2014
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Andy Warhol unplugged
November 2014 Campbell’s soup cans, Brillo boxes… and BIG BLACK COCKS! Gorgeous, intimate Polaroids of the male form. God he knew how to tell and sell a story in two or three images. Marcus *PLEASE...
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Exhibition: ‘Eyes on the Street: street photography in the 21st century’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th October 2014 – 4th January 2015 Artists Olivo Barbieri (Italian; lives and works in Modena, Italy) Philip-Lorca diCorcia (American; lives and works in New York) Jason Evans...
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Exhibition: ‘Irving Penn, Resonance’ at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Exhibition dates: 13th April – 31st December 2014 Curated by Pierre Apraxine and Matthieu Humery Irving Penn’s platinum photographs fetch tens of thousands of dollars at auction. I could think of...
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Exhibition: ‘Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer’ at the MMK Museum für Moderne...
Exhibition dates: 27th September 2014 – 4th January 2015 This exhibition looks fantastic. I really love the sensitivity and melancholy of the individual images, I just wish I could see the whole...
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Exhibition: ‘Paul Strand: Master of Modern Photography’ at the Philadelphia...
Exhibition dates: 21st October 2014 – 4th January 2015 Seeing clearly What can you say about one of the greatest photographers in the history of the medium, a man with a social conscience, a man...
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Exhibition: ‘photobooks. Spain 1905-1977′ at the Museo Nacional Centro de Art...
Exhibition dates: 27th May 2014 – 5th Januray 2015 Artists: Francesc Català-Roca, Colita (Isabel Steva Hernández), Joan Colom, Salvador Costa, Ramón Masats, Xavier Miserachs, Francisco Ontañón, José...
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