London Photography Exhibitions November 2017
London Photography Exhibitions November 2017
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The London photography exhibition landscape this November is certainly looking interesting. There is the promising Penn / Warhol exhibition which recently opened at Hamiltons Gallery in Mayfair to start. American social portraiture photography Catherine Opie is at the Thomas Dane gallery for the first time this month too. Meanwhile the masterful curation of the Beetles+Huxley annual exhibition is a treat, just north, in Mayfair.
Some London photography exhibitions, including Niko Luoma’s Rhythm, Direction Light are coming to an end. Details below for closing dates and opening times for this exhibition and others.
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Penn / Warhol: Signs
Just opened
Free admission.
Penn is probably best known for his fashion work and associations with Vogue and Issey Miyake. Though he is known as a fashion photographer, he was, above all, an artist. Irving Penn’s artistic work is distinguished for its masterful and nuanced composition coupled with meticulous attention to detail.
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.
Just opened
Free admission.
Where: Hamiltons Gallery.
Ends: Friday, 5th January.
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Catherine Opie: Portraits and Landscapes
Free admission.
Catherine Opie is a U.S. photographer who, in a word, specialises in social portraiture. Talented in portrait and landscape photography, she is known for working in the foreground of calling attention to sexual identity. She is at the forefront of social American photography and accordingly won an United States Artist Fellowship Award in 2006.
Thomas Dane Gallery presents their first ever solo of Catherine Opie photo exhibition. Portraits and Landscapes showcases Opie’s most recent work. The ongoing project draws on the styles of the old European masters and include portraits of fellow artists punctuated with abstracted landscapes.
Thomas Dane Gallery is around the corner from Christies, on St. James’s Street, in St. James’s. The gallery is not at all far from Green Park and consequently St James’s. As long as the weather isn’t too bad, a walk in the parks might a fantastic opportunity to digest mentally the exhibition’s work.
Free admission.
Where: Thomas Dane Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 18th November.
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Instant Stories: Wim Wenders’ Polaroids
Free admission before noon.
Wim Wenders is probably better known as a film director than for his photography. Though one of the Oscar nominated film maker’s best known films – The Salt of the Earth – a colourful portrait of Brazilian photographer does encroach on the world of photography.
Rather than focus on Wim Wender’s artistry, this exhibition at London’s Photographers Gallery features vernacular photography providing a rare insight into Wenders’ thought process, preoccupations and aesthetic inspirations. The images date from a prolific stage in his career during which he took some 12,000 Polaroids. The Polaroids on display – with faded colours, many marked and some creased – have a certain characteristic, evoking sentiments of a classic era. A point underlined by some of the portraits including one of Dennis Hopper.
The Photographers’ Gallery is by Liberty of London, not far from either Oxford Street or Regent Street. The gallery has a great café which also serves scrumptious salads, and some less healthy treats!
Free admission before noon.
Where: The Photographers’ Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 11th February.
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Masters of Photography 2017
Free admission.
This favourite annual exhibition returns with 30 photographic masterpieces. It is a rare treat to be given access to such a complete range of work by elite photographers so masterfully curated in a single exhibition. On show is work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Richard Avedon and a rare Andre Kertesz print.
Beetles+Huxley is just off Piccadilly, not far from Fortnum & Mason or the Royal Academy of Arts and a short walk from Regent’s Street.
Free admission.
Where: Beetles + Huxley.
Ends: Thursday, 16th November.
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Stan Douglas
Just opened
Free admission.
Stan Douglas is a Canadian photographer and artist who has exhibited previously in London. In 2002 the Serpentine Gallery hosted his Journey into Fear screenplay and his work is held in the Tate permanent collection.
Victoria Miro presents a series of large scale Stan Douglas photographs made during the London 2011 riots which were sparked by killing of a man by the Metropolitan Police. The focus of the series spreads wider than than London and the United Kingdom, with the artist turning his eye to the Arab Spring and Vancouver uprisings which also happened earlier this decade. The photographs are panoramic, the result of intensive research combining media imagery with his own footage shot from a chartered helicopter.
Victoria Miro Mayfair is on St George Street a couple of minutes’ walk from the Apple Store on Regent Street.
Just opened
Free admission.
Where: Victoria Miro Mayfair.
Ends: Wednesday, 20th December.
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Torbjørn Rødland: The Touch that Made You
Free admission.
Torbjørn Rødland is a Norwegian photographer, born in Stavanger, who creates often surreal work: portraits and landscapes. His landscape work dates to earlier in his career including the Norwegian Landscapes series made while he lived in Bergen, Norway. His early passion was drawing rather than photography. This early work, often featuring caricatures was too easily decodable for Rødland’s visually advanced mind, despite his young age at the time. So he moved to photography seeking the challenge of creating images which were required more thought to decipher and made the viewer want to reflect. In fact with his more emotional photographs, Rødland tries to make the viewer reflect rather than entertain or provoke reaction.
The Touch that Made You, at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery is Rødland’s first solo UK exhibition. A diverse selection of his work made over the last two decades is on show.
The Serpentine Sackler Gallery is in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, probably equidistant from South Kensington and Lancaster Gate tube stations.
Free admission.
Where: Serpentine Sackler Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 19th November.
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David George: The Broken Pastoral
Closing soon.
Free admission.
David George is a British photographer known for using long exposure photography to capture rural and urban landscapes. The Broken Pastoral is the culmination of ten years’ of work. Sid Motion Gallery is by Kings Cross on York Way.
Closing soon.
Free admission.
Where: Sid Motion Gallery.
Ends: Friday, 17th November.
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Thomas Ruff
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.
The Whitechapel Gallery presents Thomas Ruff work from 1979 to 2017. The Whitechapel Gallery is around the corner from Aldgate East tube station in the City.
Standard Admission: £14.50 (including Gift Aid).
Where: Whitechapel Gallery.
Ends: Sunday, 21st January.
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Niko Luoma: Rhythm Direction and Weight
Closing soon.
Free admission.
Niko Luoma is a Finnish photographer from the Helsinki School which is known for aesthetic awareness. Luoma makes abstract adaptions of well-known art pieces including Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh. His unique process has made him one of the most exciting contemporary photographers. This is his second exhibition at Atlas Gallery.
The Atlas Gallery is on Dorset Street in Marylebone, a few minutes walk from Baker Street tube station. Rococo Chocolate Shop and café is also not far if you fancy a nice hot chocolate after seeing the show.
Closing soon.
Free admission.
Where: Atlas Gallery.
Ends: Monday, 13th November.
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Daido Moriyama
Free admission.
Daido Moriyama is a Japanese photographer probably best known for his style of black and white street photography cataloguing the breakdown of traditional values in modern Japan. He counts William Klein and Eikoh Hosoe as his principal influences: he worked as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe.
This is a permanent display in the Tate Modern in the Artist rooms. In addition to prints of famous Moriyama images hung on the walls, there is a looping projection of dozens of other images – all inspiring.
Tate Modern is on the South Bank of the Thames, and just a few minutes’ walk from St. Paul’s tube station. The shows seems like a perfect drop-in on a walk along the South Bank on a a sunny day.
Free admission.
Where: Tate Modern: Boiler House Level 4 East.
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That’s it for this week’s London Photography Exhibitions, look out for next week’s list of London Photographahy Exhibitions!
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