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Exhibition: ‘Before Color: William Eggleston’ at Nederlands Fotomuseum,...
Exhibition dates: 16th June – 26th August 2012 . . “As these rediscovered prints reveal, the man who made colour photography into an artform worked brilliantly in monochrome – and his eye for...
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Exhibition: ‘Status – 24 Contemporary Documents’ at Fotomuseum Winterthur,...
Exhibition dates: 9th June – 26th August 2012 . The word status (noun) can mean the position of an individual in relation to another or others, especially in regard to social or professional standing....
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Exhibition: ‘Portraits of Renown: Photography and the Cult of Celebrity’ at...
Exhibition dates: 3rd April – 26th August 2012 . On the Nature of Photography . “To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of...
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Exhibition: ‘Timothy H. O’Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 7th April – 2nd September 2012 . “Of all the photographers who accompanied the Western surveys of this era, O’Sullivan remains the most admired, studied and debated. This is a result...
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Exhibition: ‘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 ©...
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Exhibition: ‘Naked Before the Camera’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New...
Exhibition dates: 27th March – 9th September 2012 . Many thankx to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
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Exhibition: ‘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...
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Exhibition: ‘Irving Penn: Diverse Worlds’ at Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden
Exhibition dates: 16th June 2012 – 9th September 2012 . Many thankx to the Moderna Museet Malmö for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
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Exhibition: ‘Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the...
Exhibition dates: 8th June 8 – 12th September 2012 . This is pure indulgence. These paintings are so delicious I couldn’t resist a posting. Just imagine having ANY of them (especially the Hartigan, de...
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Review: ‘Light Works’ at NGV International, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 23rd March – 16th September 2012 . “Light is a scientific fact, a metaphorical construct and even a spiritual force. It is considered an agent of truth, authenticity and revelation...
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Exhibition: ‘Famous in the Fifties: Photographs by Daniel Farson’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 19th March – 16th September 2012 . My god, how beautiful is the young Adam Faith! Since I didn’t know some of these people I have posted brief biographies. From the biographies we...
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Exhibition: ‘True Stories: American Photography from the Sammlung Moderne...
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 20th September 2012 . You can’t get much better than this to start a posting: Baltz, Friedlander, Winogrand, Nixon, Baldessari, Eggleston and Shore. I recall seeing my...
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Review: ‘Pat Brassington: À Rebours’ at the Australian Centre for...
Exhibition dates: 11th August – 23rd September 2012 . . Installation photographs of Pat Brassington: À Rebours at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne . . . This is a...
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Exhibition: ‘Lost Places. Sites of Photography’ at the Hamburger Kunsthalle,...
Exhibition dates: 8th June – 23rd September 2012 . “Fredric Jameson wrote that in the postmodern world, the subject is not alienated but fragmented. He explained that the notion of alienation presumes...
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Review: ‘Photographic abstractions’ at the Monash Gallery of Art (MGA),...
Exhibition dates: 3rd August – 30th September 2012 . . John Gollings born Australia 1944 Untitled 1988 from the series Bushfire aerials Gelatin silver print 45.5 x 56.0 cm Monash Gallery of Art, City...
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Exhibition: ‘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...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Mapplethorpe’ at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art,...
Exhibition dates: 25th May – 30th September 2012 . “Perfection means you don’t question anything about the photograph. There are certain pictures I’ve taken in which you really can’t move that leaf or...
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Exhibition: ‘Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective’ at the Solomon R. Guggenheim...
Exhibition dates: 29th June – 3rd October 2012 . “For outness is but the feeling of otherness (alterity) rendered intuitive, or alterity visually represented.” . Samuel Taylor Coleridge . . In her most...
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Exhibition: ‘Lutz Bacher / MATRIX 242′ at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific...
Exhibition dates: 18th July – 7th October 2012 . Many thankx to BAM/PFA for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image. . ....
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Picturing the Landscape’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 22nd May – 7th October 2012 . “Hence the photographer’s most important and likewise most difficult task is not learning to manage his camera, or to develop, or to print. It is...
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