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Andy Warhol unplugged 2
May 2015 Andy Warhol being, well … Andy Warhol. Artist, tourist, celebrity, poofter, man about town and spontaneous, thoughtful snapper. The photograph of the Prado at night is superb as are the...
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Exhibition: ‘Hal Fischer, Gay Semiotics, 1977/2014′ at the Fotomuseum...
Exhibition dates: 8th May – 7th June 2015 I remember coming out in 1975, six years after Stonewall, that seismic event that was the out and proud culmination of the resistance to oppression that had...
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Exhibition: ‘The photograph and Australia’ at the Art Gallery of New South...
Exhibition dates: 21st March – 8th June 2015 Curator: Judy Annear, Senior curator of photographs, AGNSW “Cultural theorist Ross Gibson has written that ‘being Australian might actually mean being...
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Exhibition: ‘Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840 – 1860′ at Tate Britain,...
Exhibition dates: 25th February – 7th June 2015 Curators: Carol Jacobi, Curator, British Art 1850-1915, Tate Britain, Simon Baker, Curator, Photography and International Art, Tate, and Hannah Lyons,...
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Exhibition: ‘Nature/Revelation’ at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 31st March 2015 – 5th July 2015 Curator: Joanna Bosse This is a fascinating exhibition at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, one of the best exhibitions I have seen this year in...
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Exhibition: ‘Storyteller: The Photographs of Duane Michals’ at the Peabody...
Exhibition dates: 7th March – 21st June 2015 I couldn’t resist. Another posting on the work of this extraordinary artist. I particularly like The Bewitched Bee (1986) and Who is Sidney Sherman?,...
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: Segregation Story’ at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Exhibition dates: 15th November 2014 – 21st June 2015 The more I see of this man’s work, the more I admire it. A sense of history, truth and injustice; a sense of beauty, colour and...
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Postcards: This is a real photograph
June 2015 A selection of black and white postcards that I recently purchased in a secondhand shop. It was fun investigating the publishers and places, especially as three of them contain my surname...
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Exhibition: ‘Modernités. Photographie brésilienne (1940-1964)’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 6th May – 26th July 2015 Curators: Antonio Pinto Ribeiro, Ludger Derenthal and Samuel Titan Jr. Another exhibition on an unusual subject that this website likes supporting: this...
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Exhibition: ‘Fabergé: Jeweler to the Tsars’ at the Oklahoma City Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 20th June – 27th September 2015 Even after nearly six years of making this website, I still get a thrill bringing you the next posting. And what a posting it is. Even as their...
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Review: ‘Luminous World: Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection’ at...
Exhibition dates: 31st March – 5th July 2015 Curator: Helen Carroll Gorgeous catalogue with luscious plates, insightful text by Bill Henson (below) and evocative poetry by John Kinsella. Stars on...
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Exhibition: ‘Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980′ at the...
Exhibition dates: 29th March – 19th July 2015 The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor Dynamic. Evocative. Essential. Surreal. Modern. Beautiful. Intelligent. Futuristic....
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Exhibition: ‘In Light of the Past’ at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Exhibition dates: 3rd May – 26th July 2015 Curators: The curators of In Light of the Past are Sarah Greenough, senior curator and head of the department of photographs, and Diane Waggoner, associate...
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Exhibition: ‘Germaine Krull (1897-1985) A Photographer’s Journey’ at Jeu de...
Exhibition dates: 2nd June 2015 – 27th September 2015 Curator: Michel Frizot, historian of photography Je l’adore cette femme. Je pense que je suis en amour. I absolutely love this women’s art....
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Exhibition: ‘Lee Miller’ at the Albertina, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 8th May – 16th August 2015 Curator: Walter Moser Leave artist’s alone It takes some time to form an opinion as to the merit of Lee Miller’s work, given the amount of photographs...
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Thomas Eakins photography
July 2015 Please click on the photography for a larger version of the image. Marcus For Eakins, the camera was a teaching device comparable to anatomical drawing, a tool the modern artist should...
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Exhibition: ‘Mario Giacomelli. Against Time’ at Fotomuseum WestLicht, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 26th June – 9th August 2015 Mario Gaicomelli has a unique signature as an artist. His photographs could never be anyone else’s work. The press release states, “His works, all of...
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Exhibition: ‘Art as Activism: Graphic Art from the Merrill C. Berman...
Exhibition dates: 26th June – 13th September 2015 It has been a pleasure researching the artists and the issues for this posting. Strong graphics for just social causes. Words and images are...
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Photographs and text: ‘Quandong, New South Wales, Australia’ 1887
July 2015 A fascinating set of albumen prints mounted on cabinet cards of Quandong, New South Wales, Australia in 1887. These images are probably among the first ever taken of the area, probably by a...
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Exhibition: ‘Carnival: Photographs by Roger Vail’ at Joseph Bellows Gallery,...
Exhibition dates: 11th July – 22nd August, 2015 For the length of each ride I just love these photographs. They are thrilling, like the rides themselves. The photographer Roger Vail comments,...
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