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Exhibition: ‘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...
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Exhibition: ‘Arthur Tress: San Francisco 1964′ at the de Young Museum, San...
Exhibition dates: 3rd March – 3rd June 2012 . These early figurative urbanscapes by Arthur Tress show the beginnings of his later Surrealist pictorial style (do a Google images search on Tress to see...
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Exhibition: ‘Cindy Sherman’ at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York
Exhibition dates: 26th February – 11th June 2012 . Ceaselessly inventive, the bodies (literally) of work of Cindy Sherman are a wonder to behold. From film stills to head shots, from history portrait...
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Exhibition: ‘Gillian Wearing’ at Whitechapel Gallery, London
Exhibition dates: 28th March – 17th June 2012 Galleries 1, 8 and Victor Petitgas Gallery . Many thankx to the Whitechapel Gallery for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click...
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Exhibition: ‘Eugène Atget: As Paris Was’ at Ticho House, the Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 23rd March – 30th June 2012 . Some Atget photographs that I have never seen before makes this posting all the more pleasurable. The pendulous nature of the sea monster, like a leg...
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Exhibition: ‘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...
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Exhibition: ‘Christer Strömholm: Les Amies de Place Blanche’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 18th May – 2nd September 2012 . It was then – and still is – about obtaining the freedom to choose one’s own life and identity. . Christer Strömholm . These are stunning photographs;...
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Exhibition: ‘Eugène Atget, Paris’ at the Carnavalet Museum, Paris
Exhibition dates: 25th April – 29th July 2012 . More photographs from the master, including some of the less well known figurative work. The exhibition has been rating its socks off, with long queues...
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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: ‘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: ‘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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Paper: ‘Traversing the unknown’ by Dr Marcus Bunyan, Faculty of Arts, the...
International conference: Travel Ideals: Engaging with Spaces of Mobility, Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, 18th – 20th July 2012 . Note: The cabinet cards or cartes de visite that you...
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Exhibition: ‘open spaces | secret places: composite works from the...
Exhibition dates: 20th October 2012 – 3rd March 2013 . Many thankx to the Museum Der Moderne Salzburg for allowing me to publish the text and photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs...
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Exhibition: ‘Jeff Wall Photographs’ at The Ian Potter Centre: National...
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . Installation shots of the new Jeff Wall exhibition at NGV Australia. Review to follow in due course. Many thankx to Jemma Altmeier and all the...
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Exhibition: ‘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...
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Exhibition: ‘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...
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Exhibition: ‘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...
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Review: ‘Ingeborg Tyssen: photographs’ at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 23rd November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . “Tysenn clearly felt a deep sense of dislocation from her country of birth, its national identity and cultural conventions. It was apparent in...
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Exhibition: ‘The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker and the Institute of Design’...
Exhibition dates: 25th September, 2012 – 24th February, 2013 . It is a pleasure to able to post more of the tough, no nonsense photographs of Ray. K. Metzker. Atlantic City (1966, below) is an absolute...
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