London Photography Exhibitions
London Photography Exhibitions
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London photography exhibitions this week are crammed with top photographers’ work. Sebastião Salgado: Serra Pelada is opening at Beetles+Huxley while Ben Brown Fine Arts’ Düsseldorf Photography (featuring Bernd & Hilla Becher) continues. Also in Mayfair, Tomoko Yoneda: Beyond Memory at the Grimaldi Gavin gallery has been extended. Those are just three of the top London Photography exhibitions on this week. Read on for more details of these and other London photography exhibitions open now in the capital.
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Sebastião Salgado: Serra Pelada
Sebastião Salgado, the the economist who became a photographer started taking photographs while travelling around the globe on missions. Ultimately he became known as a social documentary photographer and joined Magnum. Sebastião Salgado is recognised as one of the most important social documentary photographers of our time.
Sebastião Salgoado’s most recognised work is probably the capture from the Serra Salgada opencast gold mine in his native Brazil. He believes photography is being changed by the digital age:
“Your father and mother, when you were a child, they took precious photographs of you. They went to the shop on the corner to get them developed. That is a memory. That is photography.” – Sebastião Salgado.
Beetles and Huxley present a show of epic, awe-inspiring, moving and important Sebastião Salgado work, featuring (of course) the Serra Pelada shots from which the exhibition lends its name. Beetles and Huxley is just off Piccadilly, just opposite Fortnum and Mason.
Where: Beetles+Huxley.
Ends: Saturday, 19th September, 2015.
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Tomoko Yoneda: Beyond Memory
Exhibition extended.
Closing soon.
Tomoko Yoneda is considered one of the greatest photographers of her generation in Japan. She adopts an investigative approach to her artistic practice: “awakening memories and feelings related to events from the past, providing the viewer with a moment of deep meditation.” according to Giulia Mutti, AnOther Magazine. She counts her early interest in journalism as a major influence.
“Yoneda seduces us with her images and on first viewing it is easy to miss the clues to the other narratives within the pictures. After reflection we realise that these photographs depict something more complex and troubling.” – Grimaldi Gavin
The Grimaldi Gavin Gallery is in Mayfair, close to Berkeley Square and a short walk from Green Park tube station.
Closing soon.
Where: Grimaldi Gavin Gallery.
Ends: Friday, 18th September, 2015.
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Düsseldorf Photography: Bernd & Hilla Becher And Beyond
Bernd & Hilla Becher met at the Düsseldorf Academy and worked as a duo with their precise captures of industrial buildings probably being their most recognised work: souvenirs of a world recently lost. Cooling Towers (Wood) (B) – a sequence on 9 Bernd & Hilla Becher photographs from 1976 – sold for 281,000 US Dollars in 2014. Their legacy is not only their own work; they influenced a number of other renowned photographers including Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Candida Höffer.
Ben Brown is presenting a major survey of work produced by Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1976. The exhibition shows the work of Bernd & Hilla Becher alongside their former pupils’ work, including Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth.
The exhibition opens on Friday 4 September 2015. Ben Brown Fine Arts is on Brook’s Mews in Mayfair, a short walk from Bond Street Tube Station.
Where: Ben Brown Fine Arts.
Ends: Saturday, 3rd October, 2015.
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The Temptations of Pierre Molinier
Pierre Molinier was a French surrealist painter and photographer – an avowed homosexual transvestite, who lived the violence and sexual obsessions his fellow Surrealists only dreamt about. The “Pioneer of Perversity“. Molinier’s fascination with the body and the erotic manifested itself through his carefully staged photographic portraits and self-portraits. Photography allowed dream-like creatures to escape his inner psyche. Molinier is thought to be a forerunner, if not an influence for Cindy Sherman and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Richard Saltoun Gallery presents a solo exhibition of the career and unorthodox life of Pierre Molinier. This is the first London exhibition Molinier’s work in over 20 years and features over 50 ground-breaking exhibits dating from 1952 onwards.
“What human anatomy won’t allow, photomontage makes possible. Molinier’s work is a delirious, rapturous confusion” – Adrian Searle.
The Richard Saltoun Gallery is in Fitzrovia, close to Regent’s Park. For a post-viewing coffee and cinnamon bun, you might want to try the Nordic Bakery on New Cavendish Street.
Where: Richard Saltoun Gallery.
Ends: Friday, 2nd October, 2015.
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Charles Jones
Charles Jones gardener and photographer. He might be considered an English Vivian Maier (recently on display at one of the London photography exhibitions): few knew he took photographs, and it was only by luck that a box of his gelatin prints was found in Bermondsey, 22-years after he died in 1959. Though his still life work has been compared to the vegetables of Edward Weston.
Charles Jones’ work was never exhibited in his time. Michael Hoppen presents a selection of Charles Jones prints of diligently photographed the vegetables, fruit and flowers that he grew.
The Michael Hoppen gallery is in Chelsea just off the King’s Road. You might consider Gail’s (on the King’s Road) for a coffee and slice of cake after visiting the gallery.
Where: Michael Hoppen Galley.
Ends: Wednesday, 30th September, 2015.
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Thomas Ruff: Nature morte
Thomas Ruff is one of the most acclaimed and ground-breaking photographers working today. The German artist was taught by Bernd Becher (like Andreas Gursky) and counts Stephen Shore as one of his inspirations. Thomas Ruff sees photography as a very classical medium though photographic techniques evolve. His young daughter once asked him what a Polaroid is and it seems to him the negative will soon disappear.
For Thomas Ruff, the negative was the ‘master’ from which the print was made: he thinks it’s worth looking at these masters. The Gasgonian offers you a chance to do just that in the current London exhibition. The negative is the star of this display featuring his latest work. Also on show is some recent work combines positives and negatives to create photograms: a technique pioneered by Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy early last century. Light-sensitive photographic paper is exposed to light, with subjects placed between the light source and the paper, to create shadows on the print. The result is incredible.
The Gasgonian Gallery is a short walk from Bond Street Tube Station. Consider St. Christopher’s Place, on the other side of Oxford Street (not far from the gallery) for lunch after seeing the display. There is a diverse range of food on offer, with many restaurants offering al fresco dining.
Where: Gasgonian London.
Ends: Saturday, 26th September, 2015.
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Hannah Collins
Closing soon.
Hannah Collins’ photographs “can be experienced as an image and as a kind of architecture; as two-dimensional surface and as sculpture.” Iwona Blazwick . Hannah is a contemporary British artist whose works treat the collective experiences of memory, history and the everyday. The Camden Arts exhibition features the large unframed style of artwork she has become known for. The exhibition attempts to reveal Collins’ capacity to convey the emotional and psychological aspects of spaces steeped in cultural and social history”.
Camden Arts is just off on the Finchley Road, moments from Finchley Road & Frognall Overground station.
Closing soon.
Where: Camden Arts Centre.
Ends: Sunday, 13th September, 2015.
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Shirley Baker: Women, Children and Loitering Men
Shirley Baker, who died last year, was a photographer who chronicled and celebrated life in the streets of working class Manchester. In fact she was thought to be the only woman practising street photography in postwar Britain. She was active at a time when the slums were being demolished to be replaced by tower blocks. Her work included children playing in the rubble of destroyed houses. It was poignant yet conveyed her gentle humour.
The Photographers’ Gallery exhibition is a documentary depicting the clearance programme in inner city Manchester and Salford between 1961 and 1981. The northern industrial towns were often painted as being grim places full of poverty, privation and unemployment during the mid-twentieth century. Shirley Baker set about dispelling the myth, revealing Manchester from a different angle: she is now credited for both portraying the poverty and the resilience of Britain’s fractured postwar society.
The exhibition includes previously unseen colour images by Shirley Baker, as well as the black and white images she was known for. The is opens at the Photographers’ Gallery. The Photographers’ Gallery is by Liberty of London, not far from either Oxford Street or Regent Street. There is a great café which also serves nice salads, tea, coffee and cakes.
Where: The Photographers’ Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 20th September, 2015.
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Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860
Captain Linnaeus Tripe was a British, Victorian photographer, a pioneer in photography, was best known for the photographs he made in India and Burma on show in this exhibition. The exhibition features 60 images from paper negatives or calotypes.
“Trip is remarkable for the respect with which he treats the structure of indigenous cultures” FT.
“They’re stunning pictures, but they were tough to get, […] it was a real labour of love.” – Roger Taylor, exhibition curator.
The Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum is in South Kensington, five minutes walk from South Kensington tube station and a short walk from Hyde Park.
Where: V&A Museum.
Ends: Sunday, 11th October, 2015.
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Christina Broom: Soldiers and Suffragettes
Free admission
Christina Broom is considered the United Kingdom’s first, female, professional press photographer and her work from the early 20th century on show in this exhibition reveals her unique observations of London at that time. the work on show, developed from a private collection of over 300 glass plates includes fantastic Suffragettes processions and events.
This exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands, is the first ever exhibition dedicated to the photography of Christina Broom 70 years after her death.
“The pioneer finally gets the exhibition she deserves” – Independent.
Images include a portrait of King Edward VII with the Royal Family (including future King George V, grandson of Queen Victoria and grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II) at the Duke of Yorks’ School in Chelsea from 1908.
There is a special event next Thursday (25th June): Christina Broom: Close Up, at the Museum of London, Docklands. Tickets can be bought in advance (discount code available).
The Museum of London Docklands is right by West India Quay in the Docklands tube station and only moments from Canary Wharf.
Free admission
Where: Museum of London Docklands.
Ends: Sunday, 1st November, 2015.
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That’s it for this week’s London Photography Exhibitions, look out for next week’s list of London Photography Exhibitions!
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