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London Photography Exhibitions

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London Photography Exhibitions this week include Monochrome – a collection almost twenty years in the making – by British photographer David Batchelor, and on display at the Whitechapel Gallery. At the Tate Modern, there is a free exhibition, showing a collection of black and white photographs by American photographer, Henry Wessel. Two London Photography Exhibitions continuing over at the Tate Britain are Salt and Silver, and, Nick Waplington’s collaboration with the late Alexander McQueen: Working Process. Salt and Silver, is a tribute to early photograph. Read on for details of these and other London Photography Exhibitions.

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David Batchelor: Monochrome Archive, 1997 – 2015

Free admission
“David Batchelor’s work is concerned above all things with colour, a sheer delight in the myriad brilliant hues of the urban environment and underlined by a critical concern with how we see and respond to colour in this advanced technological age.” – Ingleby Gallery.

In this exhibition he photographs white rectangles found in urban environments. David Batchelor puts the rectangle above the horizon line, and frames horizontal rectangles in landscape format, and vertical ones in portrait. The series started in 1997 as a challenge to a view that the monochrome couldn’t represent the everyday life of the city.

This is a constantly evolving collection, which renews itself each time it is shown. The collection currently includes 500 images from London to São Paulo. The artist still continues to use 35 mm film on a Nikon SLR camera, despite the advances in digital photography since 1997, when he started the series.

Free admission
Where: Whitechapel Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 3rd May, 2015.
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More information: Whitechapel Gallery.

Henry Wessel: Incidents

Free admission
Henry Wessel is an arguably under-appreciated American photographer, who counts William Carlos Williams and André Kertész as his influences. The free exhibition at Tate Britain features 27 undated photographs which were recently acquired by the gallery. “Captured from his car, on the street, or in other public places, and taken with minimal interaction with the subject, these commonplace scenes are framed by Wessel as if they were isolated moments from a grander narrative.” – Tate.
If you can’t make it into London to see the prints, you might consider by the collection book.
Free admission
Where: Tate Modern.
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More information: Tate Modern.

Nick Waplington/Alexander McQueen: Working Process

Nick Waplington reveals a “raw and unpolished” side of fashion. The late Alexander McQueen collaborated with Waplington, creating a unique record of his working practice.

“The exhibition provides a fascinating inside account of McQueen’s creating process as Waplington photographs the designer as he progresses from his initial ideas to the final catwalk show.” – Blouin Art Info

Where: Tate Britain.
Ends: Sunday, 17th May, 2015.
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More information: Tate.

Viviane Sassen: Pikin Slee

Closing soon!
Viviane is a Dutch born fashion photographer known for her use of geometric shapes. This solo exhibition of her recent work focusses predominantly on work the artist made in Pikin Slee, Surinmae in 2013.

[The] images [in this exhibition] beat out their expressions with the quiet pulse of intimacy. Financial Times

Sassen shows her talent as a creative contemporary artist as much as a fashion photographer. She considers Fashion a playground to experiment in: “Fashion itself takes a secondary role to her powerful imagination… Sassen’s startling and experimental vision… is one without restraint.” Dazed Digital.

Where: ICA.
Ends: Sunday, 12th April, 2015.
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Thomas Joshua Cooper: Scattered Waters – Sources Streams Rivers

Free admission!
Closing soon!
Thomas Joshua Cooper is one of the most celebrated and distinctive landscape photographers working anywhere in the world today. The San Franciscan photographer counts another California-born landscape photographer, Ansel Adams, as well as other giants of 20th century photography: Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand and Robert Frank as his influences.

Cooper ‘makes’ pictures, prefering that verb rather than snap of shoot when talking about his work. Cooper made a series of vows some years ago: “[only to] photograph landscape; only use black and white film; only use one camera and one lens; and only ever [to make] one exposure – ‘one picture, one chance’”. The result? Making of a Cooper image can take days, weeks or months.

The photographer has been working on a project for the last 32 years, in which he has married his taste for travel with chronicling how rivers and streams define the identity of Scotland, his adopted ‘home’. This Fleming Collection display a series of pictures of the Forth and Clyde rivers crossing the country from east to west and a Sea River triptych from the Gulf of Corryvreckan off the west coast of the British nation.

The accompanying book is on sale at the gallery, is a “book for photographers” according to one review, which “speaks the language of photography quietly and elegantly”.

Free admission!
Closing soon!
Where: Fleming Collection.
Ends: Saturday, 11th April, 2015.
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Revelations: Experiments in Photography

The Science Museum follows on from the Drawn by Light exhibition, which showcased over 150 years of photography from the Royal Photographic Society archive. Revelations while covering a similar period has a scientific focus, exploring the role of photograph in Science and “featuring some of the rarest images from the pioneers of photography”.

“The curators should be commended for making this potentially overwhelming subject into a show that engages on many levels, social, scientific, historic, and visual”. Telegraph

Where: Science Museum.
Ends: Sunday, 13th September, 2015.
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Samantha Roddick: Hidden Within

Free admission.
Samantha Roddick: Hidden Within explores the sexual experience in modern society. This is the first artistic project by the original founder of the erotic boutique, Coco de Mer: “Sex has been sold into consumerism and there is a massive gap between what we individually experience sexually and how the media represents it. We need to start to envision how a healthy sexual society behaves.” Samantha Roddick
The display includes 144 images directed by Samantha Roddick herself and explores the sexual objectification of women in our culture. “Every detail has been considered and perfected.” Michael Hoppen Gallery.

The exhibition opens on Friday 20th March 2015.

Free admission.
Where: Michael Hoppen Gallery.
Ends: Friday, 1st May, 2015.
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More information: Michael Hoppen Gallery.

Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860

You may have been to see the Drawn by Light exhibition at the Science Museum which featured image from the 250,000 image The Royal Photographic Society archive, which started collecting pieces in 1853. This exhibition focusses on that nascent period of the photography and the Royal Photographic Society, promising to be a rare and revealing collection of early photography.

Salt and Silver features prints created by Henry Fox Talbot’s process which made the production of photographic paper prints possible. At the time, contemporary, Daguerre’s process (which was invented in conjunction with Niépce) produced only a single Daguerrotype image on a silver-plated copper plate. Tate Britain aims to draw attention to the process which is not very well-known in Britain, despite originating from Henry Fox Talbot’s Wiltshire laboratory at Lacock House. The prints on show are some of the rarest and earliest prints produced around the birth of photography.

On display are images by Roger Fenton from the Crimean War and Linnaeus Tripe’s shots from a flood-swept India. Naturally Henry Fox Talbot’s capture of Nelson’s Column being constructed in Trafalgar is also on show, but the show isn’t intended as a historical archive, Prospero writes: “This show makes very clear that photography’s earliest practitioners appreciated the artistic possibilities of the new medium.” According to the Evening Standard, “you see […] not just a portrait of the world in the 19th century but the blueprint for the dominant and democratic medium of our own age”.
Joint tickets for entry to Sculpture Victorious, also at Tate Britain can be arranged.
Where: Tate Britain.
Ends: Sunday, 7th June, 2015.
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More information: Tate Britain.

Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience

Free admission.
This display features images from the Victoria and Albert museum archive, and, show cases photographic responses the the Black British Experience from the 1950s to the 1990s in Britain. The images are joined by oral commentary provided by the Black Cultural Archives which aims to raise awareness of the contribution of black Britons to British culture, society, and the art of photography.
Free admission.
Where: V&A Museum.
Ends: Sunday, 24th May, 2015.
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More information: V&A Museum.

Snowdon: A Life View

Free Admission.
On leaving university, then Antony Armstrong-Jones became a fashion photographer and became known for his royal studies, which included portraits of HRH Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on their 1957 Canada tour. He was made Earl Snowdon on marrying into the Royal Family. Lord Snowdon is best known for his portraits of notable global figures and for bringing an informal approach to royal portraits. The display celebrates a major gift of photographs from Lord Snowdon to the National Portrait Gallery in 2013.

Free admission.
Where: The National Portrait Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 21st June, 2015.
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More information: National Portrait Gallery.

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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