Exhibition: ‘Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the present – A Different History...
Exhibition dates: 22nd October 2011 – 19th February 2012 . Many thankx to Fotostiftung Schweiz for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
View ArticleReview: ‘Looking at Looking’ at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 30th September 2011 - 4th March 2012 . “The paradox is the more we seek to fix our vision of the world and to control it the less sure we are as to who we are and what our place is in...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Teenie Harris, Photographer: An American Story’ at Carnegie...
Exhibition dates: 29th October 2011 – 7th April 2012 . What an astonishing photographer this man was. These photographs are a revelation. African American artist Charles “Teenie” Harris, captured “the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Henri Cartier-Bresson / Paul Strand, Mexico 1932 – 1934′ at HCB...
Exhibition dates: 11th January – 22nd April 2012 . “The American’s immobility contrasts with [the] Frenchman’s fluidity.” Press releases should be very careful when making such sweeping...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘C’est la vie. Press photography since 1940′ at the Swiss...
Exhibition dates: 11th January – 22nd March 2012 . Another fascinating, quirky photography exhibition. The photographs from the 1940s are poignant, especially when we remember what was happening in the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945 – 1980′ at the J. Paul Getty Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 20th December 2011 – 6th May 2012 . I have never particularly liked Los Angeles as a city. There seems to be something unappealing about the place, some energy lurking just beneath...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘A New Vision: Modernist Photography’ at the Currier Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 4th February – 13th May 2012 . The conceptual idea of Modernist photography is “look at this,” look at how photography interprets the world: through light, lens, glass, film, paper,...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Pieter Hugo: This must be the place’ at The Hague Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 3rd March – 20th May 2012 . Sexy, scary and very sad. The hand of the monkey Clear on the thigh of Dayaba Usman (see second photograph below) – and the look on his face – makes one...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Photography in Mexico: Selected Works from the Collections of...
Exhibition dates: 10th March – 8th July 2012 . . “There is no one ‘Mexican photography,’ but one strand that runs throughout is a synthesis of aesthetics and politics. We see that with Manuel Alvarez...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Fracture: Daido Moriyama’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 7th April – 31st July 2012 . How can we put this. The early black and white photographs are magnificent; the later colour photographs pedestrian and mundane. It is quite amazing how...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Weegee: Murder Is My Business’ at the International Center of...
Exhibition dates: 20th January – 2nd September 2012 . . Weegee Untitled [Anthony Esposito, booked on suspicion of killing a policeman, New York] January 16, 1941 Silver gelatin photograph ©...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Home Front: Wartime Sydney 1939-45′ at the Museum of Sydney
Exhibition dates: 31st March – 9th September 2012 . Some poignant photographs in this posting of young Australian men setting off to fight in the early stages of the Second World War. The message...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Eva Besnyö 1910-2003: The Sensuous Image’ at Jeu de Paume, Paris
Exhibition dates: 22nd May – 23rd September 2012 . “Ranging from the experimental to the photojournalistic, from street scenes to portraits, and from new architecture to the aftermath of the aerial...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Elliott Erwitt. Retrospective’ at Kunst Haus Wein, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 14th June – 30th September 2012 . There is something whimsical and abidingly Chaplinesque about Elliott Erwitt’s photographs (see the feet in FRANCE. Paris. 1989, below) - that is...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . This is the biggest posting on one exhibition that I have ever undertaken on Art Blart! As befits the gravity of the subject matter this...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . This is the biggest posting on one exhibition that I have ever undertaken on Art Blart! As befits the gravity of the subject matter this...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Lewis Hine: Photography for a Change’ at the Netherlands Museum...
Exhibition dates: 15th September – 6th January 2013 . “In the last analysis, good photography is a question of art.” “I wanted to show the thing that had to be corrected: I wanted to show the things...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974′ at Haus der Kunst, Munich
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 20th January 2013 . “Not taking Land art as a given the exhibition revisits various milieus and networks of heterogeneous practices around the world where the...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘William Klein + Daido Moriyama’ at the Tate Modern, London
Exhibition dates: 10th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . Many thankx to the Tate Modern for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
View ArticleExhibition: ‘Wolfgang Tillmans’ at Moderna Museet Stockholm
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . In this bumper posting, a big call: in my opinion, the greatest photography based image maker in the world today. Tillmans challenges the way we...
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