Photography
The Man Who Shot Beautiful Women, BBC FourMonday, 20 May 2013
You can only marvel at the family intrigues that virtually closed down the legacy of photographer Erwin Blumenfeld in the years following his death in 1969. "Destroy, destruct, separate, divide,” was the emphatic double-phrased imperative with which... Read more... |
PUNK+ - Sheila Rock's portraits from the frontlineThursday, 25 April 2013
The historians of punk are in full flow. Jon Savage's book England's Dreaming and the BBC Four's documentary series Punk Britannia have documented much of what needs to be said. But punk was as much a visual statement of intent as a musical one,... Read more... |
Rock and Pop: Raw Power at 40Wednesday, 20 February 2013
Mick Rock was the court photographer of glam. Among the (un)usual suspects found in his lens were Lou Reed, David Bowie and Freddie Mercury. But no one played up for his camera quite like Iggy Pop.The proof is in the six images released today as... Read more... |
Man Ray Portraits, National Portrait GalleryThursday, 07 February 2013
Travelling through Canada by train – more decades ago than I care to divulge here – I bought a book of Man Ray photographs at Banff in the heart of the Rockies. I spent the rest of the journey with one eye on the majestic mountains, and the other... Read more... |
Juergen Teller: Woo!, ICAMonday, 04 February 2013
Crossover isn’t the half of it. Not since Helmut Newton has a photographer operated so successfully in both the worlds of celebrity high fashion and the world of art. In Juergen Teller’s case there is an emotional warmth that is particularly... Read more... |
McCullinTuesday, 01 January 2013
"After such knowledge, what forgiveness?" TS Eliot’s line could well stand as an epitaph to Jacqui and David Morris’s troublingly thoughtful film about British photographer Don McCullin, whose haunting images of conflict across the world over half a... Read more... |
Light from the Middle East: New Photography, Victoria & Albert MuseumWednesday, 14 November 2012
This compilation of nearly 90 photographs by 30 photographers from 13 different countries of the Middle East is literally and metaphorically illuminating. The Paris-based Iranian photographer Abbas puts it thus: “I write with light.”Framed in three... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: They That Are LeftSunday, 11 November 2012
For the past 10 years Brian David Stevens has been taking photographic portraits of veterans on Remembrance Sunday. The images play on the notion of the unknown soldier. Each subject is portrayed without the distinguishing marks of regiment or rank... Read more... |
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2012, National Portrait GalleryThursday, 08 November 2012
The Taylor Wessing Photographic… well, you get the drift. It's quite a long title for what is now one of the most fascinating and wide-ranging exhibitions of photographs mounted in London, and which goes out on tour nationally next year. It is... Read more... |
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, National GalleryFriday, 02 November 2012
"From today, painting is dead" was the forlorn conclusion of French painter Paul Delaroche on seeing a photograph for the first time in 1839. His gloomy prediction was premature, of course; more than 170 years on, the battle for supremacy is still... Read more... |
Photo Gallery: Aberdeenshire Sand DunesTuesday, 23 October 2012
These photographs of sand dunes were taken by Brian David Stevens in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, along a stretch of pristine Scottish coastline. The pictures themselves, while captivating and beautiful in their own right, also have political freight.... Read more... |
William Klein + Daido Moriyama, Tate ModernThursday, 11 October 2012
William Klein’s exhibition opens with Broadway by Light (1958), a celluloid elegy to advertising made in the days before neon. Myriad bulbs flash the names of brands like Coca Cola, Camel, Budweiser and Pepsi across New York’s night sky. Silhouetted... Read more... |
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