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Exhibition: ‘The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 18th April 2012 – 29th April 2013 . Another fascinating exhibition and a bumper posting to boot (pardon the pun!) A panoply of famous photographers along with a few I had never heard...
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Exhibition: ‘Roman Vishniac Rediscovered’ at the International Center of...
Exhibition dates: 18th January – 5th May 2013 . “By repositioning Vishniac’s iconic photographs of Eastern Europe within the broader tradition of social documentary photography, and introducing...
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Exhibition: ‘Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop’ at The...
Exhibition dates: 17th February – 5th May 2013 . Further images from this impressive exhibition devoted to the art of photographic manipulation before the advent of digital imagery from its second...
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Exhibition: ‘The Greatest Wonder of the World’ at the State Library of New...
Exhibition dates: 23rd Feb 2013 – 12th May 2013 . Another fascinating posting, this time featuring Australian colonial photography. In 1951, a hoard of 3,500 glass plate negatives from the nineteenth...
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Exhibition: ‘Laure Albin Guillot: The Question of Classicism’ at Jeu de...
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 12th May 2013 . The ravishing sensuality of the nudes make all the hours spent assembling this blog worthwhile! . Many thankx to Jue de Paume for allowing me to...
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Exhibition and Art Award: ‘Art For Kids’ Sake’ Ballarat
Opening: May 4th, 2013 . I journeyed up to Ballarat with my friend and fellow photographer Andrew Follows and his guide dog Eamon to judge the Arts for Kids’ Sake art award today. Art For Kids’ Sake is...
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Exhibition: ‘Arnold Newman: Masterclass’ at the Harry Ransom Center, The...
Exhibition dates: 12th February – 12th May 2013 . Many thankx to the Harry Ransom Center for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
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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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Exhibition: ‘Gilles Caron, The Conflict Within’ at The Musée de l’Elysée,...
Exhibition dates: 30th January – 12th May 2013 . Dead at 30 Died so young Probably at the barrel of a snub nosed gun. Guilt, narcissism, parody or irony Doesn’t matter now He’s dead… Photos live on ....
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Exhibition: ‘Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part...
Exhibition dates: 22nd March – 18th May 2013 . Undertaking research in to the work of South African photographer Ernest Cole, I wanted to know more about “South African colonial photography”...
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Exhibition: ‘Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part...
Exhibition dates: 22nd March – 18th May 2013 . Part 2 of the posting about the exhibition Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part III. I have added notes under some of the...
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: 100 Moments’ at New York State Museum
Exhibition dates: 26th January – 19th May 2013 . The more I see the work of this outstanding artist, the more I fall in love with it. There is just a beautiful lyricism here – nothing extraneous or...
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Exhibition: ‘Concrete – Photography and Architecture’ at Fotomuseum...
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 20th May 2013 . When creating this blog, so much of my time is spent cleaning up clearly inadequate media images, an example of which can be seen below. I have become very...
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Exhibition: ‘Saul Leiter’ at Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 31st January – 26th May 2013 . “I like it when one is not certain of what one sees. We don’t know why the photographer has taken such a picture. If we look and look, we begin to see...
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Exhibition: ‘Yang Fudong: “Estranged Paradise. Works 1993 – 2013″‘ at...
Exhibition dates: 6th April – 26th May 2013 . Many thankx to the Kunsthalle Zürich for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the...
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Exhibition: ‘Edith Tudor-Hart: In the Shadow of Tyranny’ at the Scottish...
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 26th May 2013 . Another photographer unknown to me, who ”attempted to use the camera as a political weapon, aligning her practice with the wider worker photography...
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Exhibition: ‘Hilma af Klint – A Pioneer of Abstraction’ at Moderna Museet,...
Exhibition dates: 16 February – 26 May 2013 . I don’t often say this about an artist but OMG, I am in love! Five years before Wassily Kandinsky (he of the book Concerning the Spiritual In Art 1910),...
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Exhibition: ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of...
Exhibition dates: 15th February – 26th May 2013 . NEVER AGAIN! . Many thankx to Haus der Kunst for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
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Exhibition: ‘Pat Brassington: Quill’ at Bett Gallery, Hobart
Exhibition dates: 10 May – 31 May 2013 . Always enigmatic but slightly more accessible new work from Australia’s master of ambiguity Pat Brassington. Not that I would say that any of these images are...
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Exhibition: ‘Garry Winogrand’ at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
Exhibition dates: 9th March – 2nd June 2013 . “Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.” . Garry Winogrand . . Playing God with his film Form and content. Form and content I don’t like the...
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