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Text / exhibition: ‘Australian vernacular photography’ at the Art Gallery of...
Exhibition dates: 8th February – 18th May 2014 Australian vernacular photography. Such a large subject. Such a small exhibition. With only 27 photographs from various artists (18 of which are shown...
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Review: ‘The Rennie Ellis Show’ at Monash Gallery of Art, Wheelers Hill,...
Exhibition dates: 3rd April – 8th June 2014 We Are Family This is FAB, one of the best experiences I have had this year at an exhibition in Melbourne. You know you are having a good time when you...
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Exhibition / text: ‘Vivian Maier (1926-2009). A Photographic Revelation’ at...
Exhibition dates: 9th November 2013 – 1st June 2014 The next best thing The photographs of Vivian Maier. Unknown in her lifetime (nanny as secretive photographer), her negatives discovered at an...
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Exhibition: ‘Garry Winogrand’ at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 8th June 2014 More photographs by Gary Winogrand. . Many thankx to the National Gallery of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on...
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Exhibition: ‘Bill Cunningham: Facades’ at the New York Historical Society,...
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 15th June 2014 Now this is more like it! If you want fabulousness with flair, and a dash of savoir-faire; if you want architecture with fashion, history with panache,...
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Exhibition: ‘Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa’ at...
Exhibition dates: 21st February - 29th June 2014 Exhibition artists Public Intimacy presents Photography by Ian Berry, Ernest Cole, David Goldblatt, Terry Kurgan, Sabelo Mlangeni, Santu Mofokeng, Billy...
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Exhibition: ‘Out of the closets, into the streets: gay liberation photography...
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 22nd July – Saturday 26th July, 2014 Opening: Tuesday 22nd July 6-8pm Nite Art: Wednesday 23rd July until 11pm Artists represented: Philip Potter, John Storey, John Englart,...
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Exhibition: ‘Posing Beauty in African American Culture’ at the Virginia...
Exhibition dates: 26th April – 27th July 2014 An exhibition that questions the ways in which our contemporary understanding of beauty has been constructed and framed through the body and invites a...
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Catalogue essay: ‘Being (t)here: Gay liberation photography in Australia...
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 22nd July – Saturday 26th July, 2014 Artists represented: Philip Potter, John Storey, John Englart, Barbara Creed, Ponch Hawkes, Rennie Ellis Curated by Dr Marcus Bunyan and...
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Exhibition: ‘Out of the closets, into the streets: gay liberation photography...
Exhibition dates: Tuesday 22nd July – Saturday 26th July, 2014 Artists represented: Philip Potter, John Storey, John Englart, Barbara Creed, Ponch Hawkes, Rennie Ellis Curated by Dr Marcus Bunyan and...
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Exhibition: ‘Knud Lonberg-Holm: The Invisible Architect’ at Ubu Gallery, New...
Exhibition dates: 6th May – 30th September 2014 I am so excited by this monster two-part posting about the work of architect Knud Lonberg-Holm. Not only are his drawings and models incredible but his...
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Exhibition: ‘Knud Lonberg-Holm: The Invisible Architect’ at Ubu Gallery, New...
Exhibition dates: 6th May – 1st August 2014 The second part of this posting about the work of architect Knud Lonberg-Holm. “Backside-views of buildings and fire escapes, rather than historicist...
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Exhibition: ‘Blow-Up: Antonioni’s Film Classic and Photography’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 30th April – 17th August 2014 The act of looking and the gaze through the eye of a photographer’s camera are the central motifs of Blow-Up. “Don McCullin created the iconographic...
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Exhibition: ‘Roman Vishniac Rediscovered’ at the Jewish Historical Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 4th April – 24th August 2014 It takes guts and moral fortitude to continue photographing the city that you live in even as the state that controls that city and country conspires...
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Review: ‘The road: Photographers on the move 1970-1975′ at the Monash Gallery...
Exhibition dates: 13th June – 31st August 2014 Artists: Micky Allan, Virginia Coventry, Gerrit Fokkema, John Gollings, Tim Handfield, Ian North, Robert Rooney, Wes Stacey This is another stimulating...
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Exhibition: ‘Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful’ at the Art Institute of...
Exhibition dates: 7th June – 14th September 2014 One of the greats – mainly for his series Gypsies, Invasion and Exiles. Powerful images – strong, honest, respectful, beautifully composed but above...
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Exhibition: ‘Playgrounds. Reinventing the square’ at the Museo Nacional...
Exhibition dates: 29th April – 22nd September 2014 Curatorship: Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Tamara Díaz y Teresa Velázquez Artists: Vito Acconci, Efrén Álvarez , Erich Andrés, Karel Appel, Archigram,...
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Exhibition: ‘Intractable and Untamed: Documentary Photography around 1979′ at...
Exhibition dates: 28th June – 5th October 2014 Curator: Barbara Engelbach This looks like a very interesting exhibition, one which “examines documentary photographs dating from around 1979 in terms...
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Review: ‘Minor White: Manifestations of the Spirit’ at the J. Paul Getty...
Exhibition dates: 8th July – 19th October 2014 Curator: Paul Martineau is associate curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Never the objective camera, always a mixture...
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Exhibition: ‘Walker Evans. A Life’s Work’ at Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Exhibition dates: 25th July - 9th November 2014 End of the week. Not a lot of energy or time to write an in depth piece on the wonders of Walker Evans, so just a few observations… I like this...
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