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Text: ‘Facile, Facies, Facticity’ by Dr Marcus Bunyan; Exhibition: ‘About...
Exhibition dates: 9th August 2013 – 19th January 2014 . . Facile, Facies, Facticity . “The structure of presentation – point-of-view and frame – is intimately implicated in the reproduction of ideology...
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Exhibition: ‘Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus...
Exhibition dates: 15th September 2013 – 20th January 2014 . Now this is portrait photography, and all done with relatively long exposures. By god did they know how to take a photograph that has some...
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Exhibition: ‘Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland’ at The Museum Of Contemporary Art,...
Exhibition dates: 2nd November 2013 – 26th January 2014 MOCA Pacific Design Center . *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART WORK OF MALE NUDITY AND EROTIC IMAGES OF GAY MALE SEX – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE...
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Exhibition: ‘Guy Bourdin’ at the House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Exhibition dates: 1st November 2013 – 26th January 2014 . *PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART WORK OF FEMALE NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK, FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN* . Many...
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Exhibition: ‘Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969) Photographs, drawings and...
Exhibition dates: 15th October 2013 – 26th January 2014 . Considering the nature of Blumenfeld’s collages such as Grauenfresse / Hitler, Holland, 1933 and Minotaur / Dictator I would say that the...
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Exhibition: ‘Everyday Epiphanies: Photography and Daily Life Since 1969′ at...
Exhibition dates: 25th June 2013 – 26th January 2014 . Epiphany: a moment in which you suddenly see or understand something in a new or very clear way. Stephen Shore’s photographs seem the most...
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Exhibition: ‘Louise Lawler. Adjusted’ at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary...
Exhibition dates: 11th October 2013 – 26th January 2014 . . Complex and polyglot, conceptual and analytical, but simultaneously ironically light, elegiac, and unfathomable. Abstract, non-evaluative,...
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Research at the State Library of Victoria
Date: 23rd January 2014 . Miserable research experience on the Charles Marville photographs at the State Library of Victoria . I don’t usually get upset but this is an exception, and rightly so. They...
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Artwork: Hamzeh Carr. ‘And none hath sought for this as I will seek’ 1926
. In the flesh, the colouring and radiance of these plates has to be seen to be believed. I shall be posting more of these stunning works. Please click on the artwork for a larger version of the image....
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Exhibition: ‘Golden Years / Rob Hornstra’s Russia (and Oleg Klimov and Olga...
Exhibition dates: 14th December 2013 – 9th March 2014 . A very strange conglomeration of artists in this exhibition. Individually some interesting work, but not sure what the rationale was of putting...
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Research at the State Library of Victoria update
Date: 30th January 2014 . research experience on the charles marville photographs at the state library of victoria update . Dear readers Yah – a lovely response from the State Library of Victoria !! I...
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Exhibition: ‘The Weak Sex – How Art Pictures the New Male’ at Kunstmuseum Bern
Exhibition dates: 18th October 2013 – 9th February 2014 . The Cult of Muscularity . “… muscularity is a key term in appraising men’s bodies … this comes from men themselves. Muscularity is the sign of...
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New photographic prize: The Prix Elysée with the support of Parmigiani Fleurier
Applications open: 3rd February 2014 Applications close: 25th April 2014 . . . About the Prix Elysée At the Musée de l’Elysée, we think that supporting photographers in the evolution of their career is...
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Exhibition: ‘Jewels by JAR’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Exhibition dates: 20th November 2013 – 9th March 2014 . Can you imagine 400 of these fabulous works together in one exhibition… so much restrained, cultured bling all in one place! . Many thankx to The...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Architecture’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty...
Exhibition dates: 15th October 2013 – 2nd March 2014 . Another gem of a photography exhibition from the Getty. These In Focus exhibitions are just a treasure: from Making a Scene, Still Life and The...
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Review / Text: ‘Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion’ at the National Gallery...
Exhibition dates: 18th October 2013 – 2nd March 2014 . This is a sublime exhibition, teaming as it does fabulous frocks and beautiful, classical, evanescent photographs. The exhibition was in my top...
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Exhibition: ‘Walker Evans American Photographs’ at The Museum of Modern Art...
Exhibition dates: 19th July 2013 – 9th March 2014 . Picture this. That is what Walker Evans does in his unique, forthright way. He shows you what he is seeing in a very straight forward way – directly,...
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Research at the State Library of Victoria further update
Date: 22nd February 2014 . research experience on the charles marville photographs at the state library of victoria further update . Dear readers An interesting email arrived from the Collection...
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Review: ‘Simon Harsent / Melt: Portrait of an Iceberg’ at Edmund Pearce...
Exhibition dates: 5th February – 1st March 2014 . A solid exhibition by Simon Harsent to open the year at Edmund Pearce Gallery, Melbourne. . Things I felt and observed Harsent shows me sculptural...
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Film: ‘All This Can Happen’
. “The highest and the lowest, the most serious and the most hilarious things are to the walker equally beloved, beautiful and valuable…” . Dislocation Displacement Discontinuity Death Dance Despair...
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