London Photography Exhibitions March 2018
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London Photography Exhibitions March 2018
Now the snow has thawed it’s surely time to catch up on the March photo exhibitions. First, there is Victorian Giants which has just opened at the National Portrait Gallery. In brief that show features four pioneers of art photography. Meanwhile in Soho, the Deutsche Börse prize returns to the Photographers’ Gallery. Also worth a mention is the continuing exhibition at Barbican. Another Kind of Life is set over two floors and has rooms dedicated to 20 photographers. Included are Larry Clark and Bruce Davidson as well as Alec Soth and Pieter Hugo.
Finally, Valda Bailey’s show of Intentional Camera Movement work is ending soon. Read on for more details below.
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Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography
Just opened.
Victorian Giants unites early photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Oscar Rejlander. Also included in the list of giants are Lewis Carroll and Lady Clementina Hawarden. Rejlander was initially a painter – he turned to photographer after moving to England. The pioneer mastered the complicated wet-colloidion process for negatives after a three-and-a-half hour crash course in London. Later, he became a teacher to Cameron, Carroll and Lady Hawarden. In fact the four stayed in touch throughout their careers. In spite of this there was some rivalry; Lewis Carroll wrote that ‘he
did not admire Mrs Cameron’s large heads taken out of focus‘.
The art on show is raw, edgy and experimental. This is a ‘jewel-like show of photographs’ – The Telegraph.
The National Portrait Gallery is on St. Martin’s Place. It is near to Leicester Square tube station. Charing Cross station is also just a short walk.
Just opened.
Adult: £13.85 (including £2 donation and £1.85 online transaction fee).
Where: National Portrait Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 20th May.
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Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2018
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize returns to the Photographers’ Gallery. This year the shortlist includes Batia Suter and Luke Willis Thompson.
The Photographers’ Gallery is by Liberty of London, not far from either Oxford Street or Regent Street. Read on for details of the further exhibition on there now.
Free admission before noon every day.
Where: The Photographers’ Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 3rd June.
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Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins
Just opened.
Another Kind of Life, in short, explores the lives of people who have rejected the mainstream. The works touch on gender and sexuality together with countercultures and subcultures. Twenty photographers are featured including Daido Moriyama, Bruce Davidson and Larry Clark. The range of genres and period covered are also broad. There is not just classic documentary photography; street photography and portraiture also feature. The images date from the 1950s up until present day. This is a blockbuster curation reflecting a more diverse view of the world.
The Barbican Centre is just a couple of minutes’ walk from Barbican tube station. Liverpool Street and Moorgate are also quite close.
Just opened.
Standard Ticket: £13.50 (added donation optional, no booking fee applies).
Where: Barbican Centre.
Ends: Sunday, 27th May.
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Valérie Belin
Closing soon.
Free admission.
Valérie Belin is a photographer born in France and trained at École des Beaux-Arts de Bourges. In essence, Belin’s work is known for exploration of the human body as a vessel for abstraction. She photographs models and mannequins, dancers and bodybuilders all with the purpose of a central theme. That theme is reality in contrast to the artificial and whether fictions can give rise to the real.
Huxley-Parlour showcase fifteen works, which for the most part have not been previously displayed in the UK. Significantly, the large-scale works on show are from the last 17 years. The series on display include Transsexuals (2001), Mannequins (2003) as well as her latest work, Painted Ladies (2017).
Huxley-Parlour is near to Piccadilly. With Fortnum & Mason as well as the Royal Academy of Arts nearby, it is also near to Regent’s Street.
Closing soon.
Free admission.
Where: Huxley-Parlour Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 17th March.
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Under Cover: A Secret History of Cross – Dressers
Under Cover is a reflection on gender non-conformity. The Photographers’ Gallery display 200 images from Sébastien Lifshitz’s private collection. Interestingly, the images on display are from as far back as the 1880s. They show people from different classes, genders, professions and nationalities.
“Many of these are very ordinary portraits… How unremarkable these pictures are, until we realise how precise they are in their studied ordinariness.” The Guardian
The Photographers’ Gallery is by Liberty of London, not far from either Oxford Street or Regent Street. The gallery has a great café as well as a print shop.
Free admission before noon every day.
Where: The Photographers’ Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 3rd June.
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Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky is a German photographer, formerly a student of influential photographers Hilla and Bernd Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Gursky is now a professor at the Kunstakademie. That hallowed institution was attended by a long list of notable photographers including Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and Candida Höfer. Gursky is undoubtedly one of the most successful modern photographers with no fewer than six of his photographs featuring in the list of 20 Most Expensive Photos Sold at Auction. Of course, he also has the top spot with ‘Rhein II, 1999‘ which went for £2.7 million at auction in November, 2011.
What makes his photographs so expensive?
First of all the prints are huge; Rhein II is almost 12 feet (16 metres) wide. He uses medium format cameras to capture pictures and then manipulate them digitally, creating abstracts. The purpose of the digital manipulation is not to create fictions, instead to heighten the image of something that exists in the world. Andreas Gursky photographs and a social commentary which reveal “how do we order the world around around us“. It is not just Andreas Gursky’s artistic vision which makes his work so valuable. In addition, his works are rare; of the edition of six which made up Rhein II, four are in museums and only two are in private collections.
Andreas Gursky’s to large-scale photographs of landscapes, people and architecture, captures the modern world in seductive detail. He displays a methodical approach similar to that of Hilla and Bernd Becher who offered him critical training. Similarities can be noted in the use of repitition, the feature of textures, symmetry and pattern. He also counts landscape photographer John Davies and large-format colour photography pioneer Joel Sternfeld amongst those who influenced him. Gursky’s typically uses a high point of view. This is considered democratic in that it gives equal importance to every element in the composition. The result is “somewhere between photography and paintings”
Hayward Gallery Reopens
The Hayward Gallery, on the South Bank has re-opened after a two-year refurbishment with a treat for photography enthusiasts; the first major UK Andreas Gursky retrospective. The gallery present 60 images from the early 80s to Gursky’s latest work. The curator definitely had to include, the most famous Gursky, Rhein II, but there is more recent work. As an example, manipulated images made using high end digital large format cameras. The images are particularly digitally manipulated. As a result the output mimics the initial inspiration; a mobile phone capture from a moving train. This is another social comment on the world around us.
If you are keen to see full scale Gursky work, but find the entrance fee a little high you might consider going to the White Cube Gallery in Bermondsey.
The Brutalist Hayward Gallery is close to Waterloo Tube Station and on the South Bank. It’s a short walk from the Strand so you might consider combining the gallery visit with a Theatreland trip.
Supporter Standard Ticket: £18.50 (including transaction fee).
Where: Hayward Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 22nd April.
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Hiro
Free admission.
Iconic US commercial and fashion photographer Hiro is known for his bizarre yet stunning unique aesthetic. Starting out as a young fashion photographer, Hiro was inspired by Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, initially finding work as Avedon’s assistant. Hiro’s fashion work for Harper’s Bazaar, French Vogue and Mirabella was in an era when fashion photography featured great photographs instead of photographs to simply show the product. Hiro is prominently known for editorial work in Harper’s Bazaar in the 1960s and 1970s, his work featuring unusual juxtapositions continue to influence photographers today.
Hamiltons host a Hiro display featuring prints not been previously editioned, so have not been outside of magazine covers.
Hamiltons Gallery is in Mayfair, close to Grosvenor Square and a short walk from Green Park tube station. Nobu, on Berkeley street is on the way back to the tube station, if you fancy stopping off for some sushi.
Free admission.
Where: Hamiltons Gallery.
Ends: Friday, 23rd March.
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Valda Bailey: The Sun Beyond the Shadow
Closing soon.
Free admission.
Valda Bailey is a photographer from Jersey known as an expert in the Intentional Camera Movement technique. Typically landscape photographers invest in a strong and stable tripod. Additionally, they also use camera functions to minimise vibrations caused by internal movement within the camera. This all helps to get the sharpest picture possible. Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) throws this all out the window. Instead, the photographer deliberately moves the camera – panning or following a particular pattern – to blur the created photograph. The technique can create new textures in the image. The result might be something like the Impressionist painters’ work.
Valda Bailey was a painter before taking up photography seriously and uses ICM and multiple exposure to create abstract shapes in her photography. Her intention is to convey feelings invoked by the landscape, drawing on its essence rather than a focus on its detail.
MMX Gallery presents a range of prints from Bailey’s oeuvre in “The Sun beyond the Shadows”. MMX Gallery is in New Cross. New Cross, on the London Overground and mainline, is the closest station. The DLR station at Deptford Bridge is near too.
Closing soon.
Free admission.
Where: MMX Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 10th March.
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Into the Woods: Trees in Photography
Free admission.
Into the Woods is a free display on at the V&A Museum which uses photography to explore trees as an inspiration for artists. Some photographs date back to the 1850s and notable photographers featured include Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz. The display is in room 38a of the museum. The V&A will become one of the most comprehensive photography centres in the world. The first phase of the will be ready this autumn.
The V&A Museum is in South Kensington, on Exhibition Road, not more than a few minutes from South Kensington tube station.
Free admission.
Where: V&A Museum.
Ends: Sunday, 22nd April.
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Merrie Albion – Landscape Studies of a Small Island
Closing soon.
Free admission.
Simon Roberts is known for uniquely documenting British customs and practices in the great British landscape. He is by no means limited to the field of photography though. In 2012, Roberts created the Credit Crunch Lexicon installation at Swiss Cottage Gallery. However Merrie Albion focuses on his photographic work. It brings together what is in effect ten years’ of Roberts’ work.
Flowers Gallery present new work, including previously unpublished prints. The gallery is in Shoreditch on Kingsland Road, near to Hoxton Overground station. If you like Vietnamese food, stop for lunch at one of the nearby restaurants on the Pho Mile.
Closing soon.
Free admission.
Where: Flowers Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 10th March.
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London Photography Exhibitions March 2018
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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