Clik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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: Celebrating 25 Years of Photography at the National Gallery of Art are Sarah Greenough, senior curator and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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....
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exhibition: ‘Crowd Source’ at the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Exhibition dates: 4th April – 23rd August 2015 There is an almost Dickensian mellow dramatic feel to some of these 1880s-1900 albumen photographs by Sydney photographer Arthur K. Syer. While the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exhibition: ‘Early Photography in Imperial China’ at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Exhibition dates: 5th June – 23rd August 2015 For me, the standout photographs in this posting are Mee Cheung’s rhythmic Buddhist Monks in Chefoo and the work of Baron Raimund von Stillfried und...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exhibition: ‘The view from here: The photographic world of Alfred Elliott...
Exhibition dates: 13 February – 30 August 2015 This is more like it… what a find! There are some fascinating punctum (which denote the wounding, personally touching detail which establishes a direct...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott’ at the Museum of Fine Arts,...
ustExhibition dates: 17th January 2015 – 13th September 2015 Robert and Jane Burke Gallery (Gallery 335) It’s been a really tough time writing the Art Blart recently, as my beloved Apple Pro tower...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exhibition: ‘When we share more than ever’ at Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe...
Exhibition dates: 19th June – 20th September 2015 A project for the Triennial of Photography Hamburg 2015 Curators: Dr des. Esther Ruelfs and Teresa Gruber Invited artists: Laia Abril, Ai Weiwei,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exhibition: ‘From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola’...
Exhibition dates: 17th May – 4th October 2015 The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor The work of Greta Stern is the better known of these two artists (Ringl + Pit studio and the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exhibition: ‘Victorian London in Photographs 1839 to 1901’ at the London...
Exhibition dates: 5th May – 29th October 2015 This is a fascinating exhibition about the history of London portrayed through Victorian era photographs. The best photographs in the posting are by John...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exhibition: ‘Josef Koudelka: Uncertain Nationality’ at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid
Exhibition dates: 10th September – 28th November 2015 The exhibition is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Fundación MAPFRE. Curator: Matthew...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exhibition: ‘Multitude, Solitude: The Photographs of Dave Heath’ at the...
Exhibition dates: 19th September – 20th December 2015 Following on from the magnificent Francesca Woodman, here we have an artist from a previous period who investigates aspects of alienation,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Exhibitions: ‘Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008’ and...
Exhibition dates: 20th November 2015 – 13th March 2016 Curator of Coney Island exhibition: Dr Robin Jaffee Frank The first posting of 2016, and it is a doozy – a multimedia extravaganza of sight...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Photographs: ‘Andrew Follows: Carmania’
February 2016 Australian vernacular Hats off to my photographer friend Andrew Follows for a stunning set of Australian automobile photographs. These photographs, taken during daylight at the BP...
View Article