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Exhibitions: ‘New Women’ and ‘The Chanel Legend’ at Museum für Kunst und...
The Chanel Legend exhibition dates: 28th February – 18th May 2014 New Women exhibition dates: 28th February – 27th July 2014 Do you feel like a new woman? Do you feel like a god? You, in the oft...
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Exhibition: ‘Wols Photographer. The Guarded Look’ at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Exhibition dates: 15th March - 22nd June 2014 Some familiar images that were also seen in the posting Wols’ Photography: Images Regained are complimented by 5 new ones. The two portraits of the...
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Exhibition: ‘Feuerbach’s Muses – Lagerfeld’s Models’ at Hamburger Kunsthalle,...
Exhibition dates: 21st February - 15th June 2014 Gallery of Contemporary Art Don’t give up your day job . From the sublime (Feuerbach) to the downright awful (Lagerfeld). From gorgeous, sensitive...
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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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Photographs and text: George Platt Lynes and the male nude
*PLEASE NOTE THIS POSTING CONTAINS ART PHOTOGRAPHS OF MALE NUDITY – IF YOU DO NOT LIKE PLEASE DO NOT LOOK, FAIR WARNING HAS BEEN GIVEN* Man Ray George Platt Lynes 1927 The greatest photographer...
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Exhibition: ‘Robert Heinecken: Object Matter’ at The Museum of Modern Art...
Exhibition dates: 15th March – 7th September 2014 A bumper posting on probably the most important photo-media artist who has ever lived. This is how to successfully make conceptual photo-art. A...
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Exhibition: ‘Cecil Beaton at Wilton’ at Wilton House, Wiltshire and ‘Cecil...
Exhibition dates: Cecil Beaton at Wilton: 3rd May – 14th September 2014 Cecil Beaton at Home: Ashcombe & Reddish: 23rd May – 19th September 2014 Bright Young Things, Costume Balls And Country House...
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Exhibition: ‘Sharp, Clear Pictures: Edward Steichen’s World War 1 and Condé...
Exhibition dates: 24th June – 13th October 2014 Brave man, hanging over the side of a rickety biplane at 15,000 feet taking aerial photographs during World War One but just look at the images he...
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Review: ‘PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS FEMINISM: Australian women photographers...
Exhibition dates: 17th October – 7th December 2014 Artists: Micky Allan, Pat Brassington, Virginia Coventry, Sandy Edwards, Anne Ferran, Sue Ford, Christine Godden, Helen Grace, Janina Green, Fiona...
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Exhibition: ‘RealSurreal. Masterpieces of Avant-Garde Photography Das Neue...
Exhibition dates: 15th November 2014 – 6th April 2015 The artists Eugène Atget – Herbert Bayer – Hans Bellmer – Aenne Biermann – Brassaï – František Drtikol – Jaromír Funke – Florence Henri – André...
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Edmund Pearce Gallery to close
One of the few dedicated commercial photography galleries in Melbourne has decided to close its doors. Such a pity “that the depth and breadth of the Australian market is not sufficient to sustain a...
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Exhibition: ‘Irving Penn, Resonance’ at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Exhibition dates: 13th April – 31st December 2014 Curated by Pierre Apraxine and Matthieu Humery Irving Penn’s platinum photographs fetch tens of thousands of dollars at auction. I could think of...
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Exhibition: ‘Horst: Photographer of Style’ at the Victoria & Albert Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 6th September 2014 – 4th January 2015 Curator: Susanna Brown, Curator of Photographs at the V&A Steichen, Penn, Avedon, Newman – and then there is Horst, master of them all....
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Exhibition: ‘Eyes Wide Open: 100 Years of Leica Photography’ at...
Exhibition dates: 24th October 2014 – 11th January 2015 Curator: Hans-Michael Koetzle A photographic revolution. So much more than just photojournalism… and it has a nice sound as well. “Indiscreet...
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Review: ‘Richard Avedon People’ at The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 6th December 2014 – 15th March 2015 Curator: Dr Christopher Chapman You can tell a lot about a person from their self-portrait. In the case of Richard Avedon’s self-portrait...
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Selection of images part 2
April 2015 Another selection of interesting images. My favourites: the weight of Weston’s Shipyard detail, Wilmington (1935); and the romanticism (Jean-François Millet-esque), sublime beauty of...
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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...
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Exhibition: ‘The EY Exhibition: Sonia Delaunay’ at Tate Modern, London
Exhibition dates: 15th April – 9th August 2015 Curators: curated at Tate Modern by Juliet Bingham, Curator International Art, with Juliette Rizzi, Assistant Curator. One of my favourite female...
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Text / exhibition: ‘David Bowie is’ at the Australian Centre for the Moving...
Exhibition dates: 16th July – 1st November 2015 Melbourne Winter Masterpieces This text was written for a special LGBTQI themed edition of the peer reviewed journal Fashion, Style and Popular...
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Exhibition: ‘Herb Ritts’ at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 8th November, 2015 Another artist lost too soon to HIV/AIDS. At least we have these fine classics to remember him by. The portrait of Nelson Mandela is especially...
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