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Exhibition: ‘South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest...
Exhibition dates: 1st December 2012 – 5th March 2013 . “We were insiders, all three of us: Ernest Cole, Billy Monk, and me. We each photographed from the inside what we most intimately knew. Cole was...
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Review: ‘Jeff Wall Photographs’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGVA, National...
Exhibition dates: 30th November 2012 - 17th March 2013 . “My work is a reconstruction and reconstruction is a philosophical activity. If I can create a drama that has philosophical meaning, that’s...
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Exhibition: ‘Treasures of the Alfred Stieglitz Center: Photographs from the...
Exhibition dates: 22nd December 2012 – 7th April 2013 . Many thankx to the Philadelphia Museum of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a...
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Exhibition: ‘Light from the Middle East: New Photography’ at the Victoria and...
Exhibition dates: 13th November 2012 – 7th April 2013 From the Art Fund Collection of Middle Eastern Photography at the V&A and the British Museum . A massive posting on a fascinating subject. I...
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Exhibition: ‘The Shaping of New Visions: Photography, Film, Photobook’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 18th April 2012 – 29th April 2013 . Another fascinating exhibition and a bumper posting to boot (pardon the pun!) A panoply of famous photographers along with a few I had never heard...
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Exhibition: ‘Roman Vishniac Rediscovered’ at the International Center of...
Exhibition dates: 18th January – 5th May 2013 . “By repositioning Vishniac’s iconic photographs of Eastern Europe within the broader tradition of social documentary photography, and introducing...
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Exhibition: ‘Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art’...
Exhibition dates: 26th January – 12th May 2013 . A second tranche of images from this touring exhibition of photographs from the MoMA collection, presented at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in...
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Exhibition: ‘Gilles Caron, The Conflict Within’ at The Musée de l’Elysée,...
Exhibition dates: 30th January – 12th May 2013 . Dead at 30 Died so young Probably at the barrel of a snub nosed gun. Guilt, narcissism, parody or irony Doesn’t matter now He’s dead… Photos live on ....
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: 100 Moments’ at New York State Museum
Exhibition dates: 26th January – 19th May 2013 . The more I see the work of this outstanding artist, the more I fall in love with it. There is just a beautiful lyricism here – nothing extraneous or...
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Exhibition: ‘Saul Leiter’ at Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna
Exhibition dates: 31st January – 26th May 2013 . “I like it when one is not certain of what one sees. We don’t know why the photographer has taken such a picture. If we look and look, we begin to see...
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Exhibition: ‘Edith Tudor-Hart: In the Shadow of Tyranny’ at the Scottish...
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 26th May 2013 . Another photographer unknown to me, who ”attempted to use the camera as a political weapon, aligning her practice with the wider worker photography...
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Exhibition: ‘The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951′ at The...
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 16th June 2013 . Conscience of the brave Bradley Manning. A slight, bespectacled, intelligent gay man. A man who has the courage of his convictions. He revealed truth at...
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Exhibition: ‘Tim Hetherington / Doug Rickard’ at Stills Gallery, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 22nd May to 22nd June 2013 In association with Yossi Milo Gallery and Head On Photo Festival . “Our generation is not attached to this myth of photography as objective reporting...
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Exhibition: ‘Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light’ at The Museum of Modern Art, New...
Exhibition dates: 6th March – 12th August 2013 . “Brandt ranks among the visionaries who, in the diversity of their approach, established the creative potential of photography based on observation of...
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Exhibition: ‘Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and...
Exhibition dates: 26th March – 25th August 2013 . According to the press release, “Hamaya focused inward toward rural life on the back coast of Japan, [while] Yamamoto found inspiration in the art of...
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Exhibition: ‘Globelight ’13 [New Light Art + Design]‘ at Anita Traverso...
Exhibition dates: 30th July – 24th August 2013 Curated by James Tapscott and Sam Mitchell-Fin . Although I could not get to the second part of the exhibition at Abbotsford Convent, what I saw of this...
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Exhibition: ‘Lewis Hine – Photography for a Change’ at Fotomuseum Winterthur,...
Exhibition dates: 8th June – 25th August 2013 . “While human truth may be ephemeral qualities like justice are not; the struggle is to define justice and to live it. And for artists to display it.” ....
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Review: ‘Ian Strange: SUBURBAN’ at NGV Studio, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 27th July – 15th September 2013 . It is disappointing when you invite friends from Melbourne and interstate to an opening and one of them turns to you and says, “Well, what was all...
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Exhibition: ‘French Twist: Masterworks of Photography from Atget to Man Ray’...
Exhibition dates: 29th June – 15th September 2013 . C’est Magnifique! . Many thankx to the Delaware Art Museum for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Ed Ruscha’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center,...
Exhibition dates: 9th April – 29th September 2013 . “Yes, there’s a certain power to a photograph. The camera has a way of disorienting a person, if it wants to and, for me, when it disorients, it’s...
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