Exhibition: ‘Witness at a Crossroads: Photographer Marc Riboud in Asia’ at...
Exhibition dates: 16th October 2014 – 23rd March 2015 I am not convinced by these. There are a couple of brilliant images in the posting, such as Forbidden City (Beijing, 1957) and Photography Fair...
View ArticleExhibition: ”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...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Freedom Journey 1965: Photographs of the Selma to Montgomery...
Exhibition dates: 16th January – 19th April 2015 And still it goes on… whether it be so called Chelsea football “fans” singing racist songs and abusing a black man on the Paris Metro, the Australian...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘The Social Medium’ at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 31st October 2014 – 19th April 2015 Another fun posting to add to the archive! Marcus . Many thankx to the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum for allowing me to publish the...
View ArticleReview: ‘Richard Avedon People’ at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 6th December 2014 – 15th March 2015 Curator: Dr Christopher Chapman You can tell a lot about a person from their self-portrait. In the case of Richard Avedon’s self-portrait...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Pieter Hugo: Kin’ at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
Exhibition dates: 14th January – 26th April 2015 At this moment in time, I believe that Pieter Hugo is one of the best photographers in the world. Approaching photography with a keen awareness of the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘In Focus: Play’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center,...
Exhibition dates: 23rd December 2014 – 10th May 2015 The J. Paul Getty Museum always puts on the most interesting photography exhibitions. This looks to be no exception. Marcus . Many thankx to the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘John Gossage: Three Routines’ at The Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition dates: 22nd January – 3rd May 2015 I freely admit that I knew little about this artist’s work before starting to assemble this posting. Strong, focused, conceptually driven bodies of work...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Florence Henri. Mirror of the avant-garde 1927-1940′ at Jeu de...
Exhibition dates: 24th February – 17th May 2015 Curator: Cristina Zelich Objects in and of space, the two the same Florence Henri is rapidly becoming one of my favourite photographers, an artist...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Shatter Rupture Break’ at the Art Institute of Chicago
Exhibition dates: 15th February – 3rd May 2015 Again, I am drawn to these impressive avant-garde works of art. I’d have any of them residing in my flat, thank you very much. The Dalí, Delaunay and...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Juvenilia: Peter Milne’ at Strange Neighbour, Fitzroy, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 27th February 27th – 28th March, 2015 Curators: Helen Frajman and Linsey Gosper For those of you that remember The Venue, St Kilda and Razor Club, this posting is for you. This is a...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Tattoo’ at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Exhibition dates: 12th February – 20th September 2015 Because it took such a long time to collate and construct this MONSTER posting will have to last you nearly a week – until next Wednesday anyway....
View ArticleJapanese photographic album c.1920-30s Part 2
April 2015 After the blockbuster Tattoo posting, here is a rather more still, quiet posting. Another nine images rescued from the dustbin of history… I bought an anonymous Japanese family...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Bevan Davies: New York’ at Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla,...
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 9th May, 2015 This stunning suite of large format photographs emanates from an esteemed lineage: the early morning light of Atget’s photographs of Old Paris during that...
View ArticleSelection of images part 1
April 2015 A selection of interesting images. The Vanishing Race by Edward S. Curtis is simple, yet one of the best. Already their shadows seem more substantial than their owners. Any photographer...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Modern Photographs from the Thomas Walther Collection,...
Exhibition dates: 13th December 2014 – 19th April 2015 Exhibition coincides with the culmination of the Thomas Walther Collection Project, a four-year research collaboration between MoMA’s curatorial...
View ArticleNew work: ‘Too Much of the Air’ 2015 by Marcus Bunyan
April 2015 And now for something completely different… After 16 months hard work, I have completed a new 52 image sequence. Below is a selection of images from the sequence. Please click on the...
View ArticleSelection 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...
View ArticleArtist in focus: Larry Fink
April 2015 Hands / Class – Tree, Surface, Root These are magnificent photographs. Fink’s mastery of the picture plane, ensemble, mise-en-scène, chiaroscuro is outstanding. But for me it is the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Australian Women Artists Between the Wars’ at Lauraine Diggins...
Exhibition dates: 3rd March – 30th April 2015 Artists: Clarice Beckett, Dorrit Black, Bessie Davidson, Ethel Carrick Fox, Joy Hester, Nora Heysen, Hilda Rix Nicholas, Margaret Preston, Jane Price, Thea...
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