Sunday 20 March 2011

London Street Photography Museum of London

Until 4 September 2011, FREE entry
Street photographs are at the heart of our understanding of London as a diverse and dynamic capital. They are characterised by an element of chance - a fortunate encounter, a fleeting expression, a momentary juxtaposition, capturing an ever-changing city.

This major new exhibition at the Museum of London showcases an extraordinary collection of London street photography with over 200 candid images of everyday life in the street. From sepia-toned scenes of horse-drawn cabs taken on bulky tripod-mounted cameras to 21st century Londoners digitally ‘caught on film’, explore how street photography has evolved from 1860 to the present day. Examine the relationship between photographers, London’s streets and the people who live on them, and reflect on the place of photography on London’s streets today as anti-terrorism and privacy laws grow ever tighter.

London Street Photography brings together the works of 59 photographers including:
Valentine Blanchard experimented with a small-format stereoscopic camera in 1860s London to produce the first photographs of busy city streets in which everything in motion was arrested in sharp definition.

John Thomson produced a ground-breaking survey of London’s poor with the publication of Street Life in London in 1877.

Paul Martin pioneered candid street photography in London when, in the early 1890s, he began using a camera disguised as a parcel to photograph people unawares.

Horace Nicholls was an early independent press photographer whose candid photographs of well-to-do Edwardians at leisure are particularly revealing.

Wolf Suschitzky came to London from Vienna in 1935 and began a personal project to photograph the life of Charing Cross Road, both day and night

Roger Mayne sought to record a way of life as he photographed a rundown area of North Kensington before it was redeveloped in the 1960s. Mayne became a familiar figure as he hung around the streets, camera at the ready.

Henry Grant was a freelance photojournalist with a profound interest in the everyday lives of ordinary peoples. He photographed London’s changing streets from the 1950s to the 1980s

Paul Trevor moved to Brick Lane in the East End in the early 1970s and photographed life on the street almost every day for the next 10 years. His photographs are a unique record of the area before large-scale immigration and gentrification wrought their changes

Paul Baldesare frequents London’s busy shopping streets, looking for remarkable gestures and expressions by individuals going about their everyday lives.

Nils Jorgensen is a professional news and celebrity photographer who always has his camera to hand to capture street images in between assignments.

Stephen McLaren seeks out quirky and colourful street images, while also leading a career directing and producing for television. He is co-author of the book Street Photography.

Nick Turpin is a great advocate for contemporary street photography, founding the In-Public collective in 2000 as well as a publishing company to promote the गेंरे.
Museum open daily and is FREE!
Monday to Sunday: 10am-6pm
Please note that the galleries will begin to close at 5.40pm
Closed: 24 to 26 December
Museum of London
150 London Wall
London EC2Y 5HN

By tube: Barbican, St Paul's, Moorgate
By bus: 4, 8, 25, 56, 100, 25, 172, 242, 521
Source : Museum of London

Photography exhibition Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio and Street- National Portrait Gallery London

17 February – 30 May 2011
The missing link in British photography between Frederick Evans and those contrasting moderns, Bill Brandt and Cecil Beaton
Mark Haworth-Booth, 2006
E.O. Hoppé is one of the most important photographers of the first half of the twentieth century. Celebrated during his lifetime, much of Hoppé’s work has only recently been reassembled and this major survey will enable visitors to discover a forgotten master.
Featuring 150 works, The exhibition includes Hoppé’s strikingly modernist portraits of society figures and important personalities from the worlds of literature, politics and the arts, including George Bernard Shaw, Margot Fonteyn, Albert Einstein, Vita Sackville-West and members of the royal family.
These studio portraits will be shown alongside his fascinating photojournalist studies of everyday British people ranging from street musicians and circus performers to bus drivers and postmen, which capture the realities of day-to-day life between the wars.

Exhibition organised by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in collaboration with Curatorial Assistance / E।O.
Opening hours
Daily 10.00 – 18.00
Closure commences at 17.50
Thursdays and Fridays until 21.00
Closure commences at 20।50
St Martin's Place , London, WC2H OHE, England
Phone: +44 (0) 20 7306 0055

Source : National Portrait Gallery

Monday 14 March 2011

Photography Exhibition George Georgiou "Turkey – Fault Lines"

The Athens House of Photography in Athens is proud to present the exhibit "Turkey – Fault Lines" by George Georgiou. The opening of the exhibit, at which the photographer himself will be present, is on March 17th, at 20:00. The exhibit will last until the 22nd of April.
Opening hours
Wednesday-Thursday-Friday 14.00 - 20.00
Saturday 12.00 - 20.00
Sunday 11।00 - 18।00
Source :http://www.phototheatron.com/events/currentevents/

Tuesday 8 March 2011

Clouds

Dignity- Tribes in Transition-Holden Luntz Gallery Palm Beach Florida

Dignity includes the work of five major photographers who have devoted decades of their lives’ to recording, understanding, and preserving human diversity.
See more in the site of the Gallery :http://www.holdenluntz.com/exhibitions/exhibitions.htm
March 5 - April 9, 2011
Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

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