Photography
Thomas Struth: Photography 1978-2010Sunday, 10 July 2011![]() Read more... |
Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century, Royal AcademyThursday, 30 June 2011![]() A subtly haunting and brilliantly composed photograph by André Kertész lives on as a wistfully memorable image of exile: in Lost Cloud, 1937, a small, isolated cloud drifts we know not where next to a New York skyscraper. Kertész is one of the... Read more... |
Gallery: Weddings and Movie StarsSunday, 29 May 2011![]() Movie stars and marriage have always helped the headline-writers. When in 1956 Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe tied the knot (he for the second time, she the third), they were dubbed the Egghead and the Hourglass. “Arthur Miller wouldn’t have... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Moby, DestroyedSaturday, 14 May 2011![]() As well as a new album, Destroyed, Moby is putting out a book of photographic prints under the same title. The idea of the book is to capture the essence of being on a global tour, from the mundanity of waiting in airports to the majesty of... Read more... |
Burke + Norfolk: Photographs From the War in Afghanistan, Tate ModernThursday, 12 May 2011![]() How easy is it to stage a dialogue between two artists when they are, in fact, separated by over a century? And is it really an artistic conversation that takes place or merely an imposition of values by the living over the dead? This pertinent... Read more... |
Jean-Marc Bustamante, Timothy Taylor GalleryWednesday, 20 April 2011![]() Who or what is Jean-Marc Bustamante? This, surely, is the question we are supposed to ask of this artist of the affectless, who has skated in his three-decade-long career across the genres – first photography, then Minimalist sculpture, then a... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Figures and Fiction - Contemporary South African Photography, V&AWednesday, 13 April 2011![]() It’s been 17 years since apartheid came to an end in South Africa, and the transition to democracy has not been an easy one, for while political systems may change, social attitudes may prove yet more difficult to shift. The Victoria and Albert... Read more... |
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2011, Ambika P3Thursday, 07 April 2011![]() You hardly expect to turn out for an exhibition of cutting-edge photography because of what the images are of. You go for the style, for the technique, for what’s being said about the medium and the, er, beauty. Yet at least one of the nominees for... Read more... |
Daniel Linehan, Sadler's Wells, Lilian Baylis TheatreWednesday, 06 April 2011![]() Photography is linked closely with memory. Photographs help us recall family, friends, holidays, and it can attest to an event. But one could argue that it actually serves a purpose of forgetting. As we are immersed in a digital age, the photograph... Read more... |
Anselm Kiefer, White Cube HoxtonMonday, 21 March 2011![]() The sea: the depths from which all life emerged, and a force of destruction. Anselm Kiefer contemplates its sublime beauty and terror in a new exhibition of 24 panoramic photographs, ranged three-deep on two facing walls. Each grey and grainy ... Read more... |
Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, National Portrait GalleryMonday, 14 March 2011![]() What ever happened to Ida Kar? If the question is not quite on the level of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, perhaps the answer is more interesting, if less melodramatic. Ida Kar - born Ida Karamian in Russia of Armenian parents, resident of Cairo... Read more... |
Film Gallery: Angela Allen's Life in the MoviesSaturday, 05 March 2011![]() “I’ve never been intimidated by them. I don't suffer from thinking, that person is a star. They’ve got their job. I’ve got mine. If they’re pleasant so much the better.” Angela Allen’s lifetime in film has found her working closely with some of the... Read more... |
