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Exhibition: ‘Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 29th April – 14 August 2016 Curator: Geoffrey Batchen This is how best a contemporary art exhibition can show the work to advantage. Just gorgeous! The well curated, comprehensive...
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Book: ‘HAND-COLOURED NEW ZEALAND: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF WHITES AVIATION’ by...
August 2016 A beautiful new book by my New Zealand friend Peter Alsop about that countries hand coloured scenic photos. Whites Aviation changed the way New Zealanders viewed their country. For...
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Exhibition: ‘Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 29th April – 14 August 2016 Curator: Geoffrey Batchen Part 2 of a posting on this wonderful exhibition – Emanations: The Art of the Cameraless Photograph – at the Govett-Brewster...
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Review: ‘Henry Talbot: 1960s Fashion Photographer’ at The Ian Potter Centre:...
Exhibition dates: 7th May – 21st August 2016 Curator: Susan van Wyk To be frank, this handsomely installed exhibition of the work of Australian fashion photographer Henry Talbot is a bit of a let...
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Exhibition: ‘The Memory of the Future. Photographic Dialogues between Past,...
Exhibition dates: 25th May – 28th August 2016 Curator: Tatyana Franck, Musée de l’Elysée, assisted by Lydia Dorner and Emilie Delcambre Artists: Takashi Arai / Israel Ariño / Anna Atkins / Patrick...
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Exhibition: ‘Roberto Donetta Photographer and Seed Salesman from Bleniotal’...
Exhibition dates: 28th May – 4th September 2016 I have found a hidden gem in Roberto Donetta. He has become one of my favourite photographers, this seed salesman from Bleniotal, who died in obscurity...
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Exhibition: ‘An Anonymous Art: American Snapshots from the Peter J. Cohen...
Exhibition dates: 15th April – 4th September 2016 Dis/membering the snapshot To say that I dislike the term “snapshot” is an understatement. The term snap/shot implies a lack of consideration in the...
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Exhibition: ‘A History: Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 25th March – 4th September 2016 Curator: Christine Macel Artists include: Pawel Althamer/ Maja Bajević / Yto Barrada / Jean-Michel Basquiat / Taysir Batniji / Christian Boltanski /...
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Exhibition: ‘Moholy-Nagy: Future Present’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim...
Exhibition dates: 27th May – 7th September 2016 To understand the production of art at the end of tradition, which in our lifetime means art at the end of modernism, requires, as the postmodern...
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Exhibition: ‘Degas: A New Vision’ at the National Gallery of Victoria...
Exhibition dates: 24th June – 18th September 2016 A magnificent exhibition of the work of Edgar Degas at NGV International. So nice to see a blockbuster without papered walls or patterned floors, an...
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Exhibition: ‘Surreal Encounters: Collecting the Marvellous: Works from the...
Exhibition dates: 4th June – 11th September 2016 Curator: Keith Hartley Marcus Bunyan Self-portrait with gryphon and Miró (Head of a Catalan Peasant) tattoo, both by Alex Binnie, London 1998 I...
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Exhibition: ‘Ken Domon: Master of Japanese Realism’ at the Museo dell’Ara...
Exhibition dates: 27th May – 18th September 2016 Social Realism I love most Japanese photography of the post-war period (1950s-1970s) and this artist’s work is no exception. What a absolute master of...
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Review: ‘Degas: A New Vision’ at the National Gallery of Victoria...
Exhibition dates: 24th June – 18th September 2016 This is a magnificent exhibition, well paced and beautifully hung in the gallery spaces. It is gratifying to see a “blockbuster” at the National...
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Exhibition: ‘The Intimate World of Josef Sudek’ at Jeu de Paume, Paris
Exhibition dates: 7th June – 25th September 2016 A poetry of the everyday Josef Sudek, a one-armed man lugging around a large format camera, is one of my top ten photographers of all time. His...
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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: ‘Danny Lyon: Message to the Future’ at the Whitney Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 17th June – 25th September 2016 Curator: Julian Cox This man is a living legend. What a strong body of socially conscious work he has produced over a long period of time. Each...
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Review: ‘Polixeni Papapetrou: Eden’ at Stills Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 3rd September – 1st October 2016 This end of (life) cycle is the last body of work that Polixeni Papapetrou will make. It is the completion of an imaginative, bold and strong body...
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Exhibition: ‘Sojourner Truth, Photography, and the Fight Against Slavery’ at...
Exhibition dates: 27th July – 23rd October 2016 ‘I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance’ Former New York slave Sojourner Truth (which literally means “itinerant preacher”) strategically deployed...
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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: ‘Dream States: Contemporary Photographs and Video’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 16th May – 30th October 2016 The best fun I had with this posting was putting together the first twelve images. They seem to act as ‘strange attractors’, a feeling recognised by the...
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