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Category Archives: photo-exhibitions
V&A Photographic Centre
Photographic Centre opening date announced
Opening on 12 October 2018
Bill Henson
Exhibition notice
Bill Henson at the Tolarno Galleries 104 Exhibition Street Melbourne
till 2 June 2018.
Frank Hurley at Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Posted by Gael Newton on Wednesday, 4 April 2018
Harold Edgerton at the Whitney
An exhibition notice for an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Click here for the link…
And for more on Harold Edgerton — see my 1999 paper for the catalogue at the National Gallery of Australia — click here.
Thai photography
NUS Museum (Singapore) Rediscovering Forgotten Thai Masters of Photography: till 21 July 2018. Research by Manit…
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 23 March 2018
Frank Hurley at Manly Art Gallery and Museum
Click on the image for more on this exhibition
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2018
Celebrating a Pioneer of Australian Photojournalism
Celebrating IWD — 8th March 2018
Adelie Hurley (1919–2010) - The first Australian female commercial photojournalist
Frank Hurley at Manly Art Gallery & Museum
Frank Hurley: From Circular Quay to Collaroy Plateau.
Mossgreen Auction — SMH photographs
AUCTION: Sydney Morning Herald
Vintage Photography Collection, Part 1
The Unflinching Gaze
The Unflinching Gaze: photo media & the male figureBathurst Regional Art Gallery, Open until 3 Dec 2017there’s a link to the gallery at the bottom of the article..
Posted by Gael Newton on Friday, 20 October 2017
Peter Dombrovskis
Sasha Grishin reviews National Library of Australia (Canberra) exhibition: Peter Dombrovskis — Journeys into the wild.Open till 30 January 2018
Posted by The Art Museum on Friday, 20 October 2017
William and Winfred Bowness Photography Prize
the 2017 announced: winner: Polixeni Papapetrou
Continue reading William and Winfred Bowness Photography Prize
Andre Kertesz photographs
Mirroring Life, a retrospective exhibition — photographer André Kertész (1894–1985)Foam Museum Amsterdam 15 Sept 2017 — 10 Jan 2018
Posted by The Art Museum on Saturday, 16 September 2017
Lee Fook Chee
Exhibition: Lee Fook CheeLee Fook Chee: Son of Singapore, Photographer of Hong KongThe Art House, Singapore, 3 Aug‑3 Sept 2017
Posted by The Art Museum on Thursday, 10 August 2017
Max Dupain auctions Postscript
A Postscript to my AUCTION AUTOPSY:
The Mossgreen Dupain Sales 2016–17
click here to see my postscript on my former report on these significant photography auctions by Mossgreen.
Max Dupain auctions
AUCTION AUTOPSY: The Mossgreen Dupain Estate Sales 2016–17
click here to see my report on these significant photography auctions by Mossgreen.
V&A photographic centre
designs for new V&A Photography Centre
The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has revealed a visual of its new Photography Centre — click here
William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
MGA Call for entries
Entries now invited
Continue reading William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
Anne Zahalka in Albury
Exhibition: The Landscape Revisited
Anne Zahalka’s new exhibition at the city gallery in Albury- MAMA — till Sunday 5th November 2017
Frank Hurley & Australian Native Plants
INFORMATION CALL-OUT: FRANK HURLEY
Searching for Frank Hurley along our northern beaches
Did you know that Frank Hurley was a very keen gardener and photographer of wild flowers?
The Photography Room: May — June 2017
3 New Exhibitions at The Photography Room
Dörte Conroy — What Comes to Mind: Lorna Sim — Enigma:
Maurice Weidmann- Absence of Sunshine
Continue reading The Photography Room: May — June 2017
Regis Lansac
Head On Photography Exhibition
Exhibition of Regis Lansac’s photographs at Janet Clayton Gallery:
3–28 May 2017
NGA Photography
19thC photography in Japan
There’s a small exhibition at the National gallery of Australia.
Ballarat Foto Biennale — Portrait Prize
Martin Kantor Portrait Prize Entry
Applications close: 31st May 2017
click on image for more.…
Planetary Gardening at photoaccess
Review by Peter Haynes
Curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean — click on image.
Planetary Gardening at photoaccess
This is an exhibition at photoaccess (Canberra) curated by Ashley Lumb and Laura McLean.
Wesley Stacey at the MGA
Exhibition: Wesley Stacey — The Wild Thing
Exhibition of 40 years of photographs by Wesley Stacey at the Monash Gallery of Art, 4th March — 28 April 2017 — click here for pictures of the opening and other comments.
National Museum of Norway, photography
Documentary and portrait photography
National Museum in Norway exhibition on documentary and portrait photography.
Jane Brown at Stills Gallery
Exhibition: Jane Brown — Sporting Country
One to see — exhibition at Stills Gallery of Jane Brown’s photographs — Sporting Country.
Sean Davey at The Photography Room
Exhibition: Sean Davey — Solomon Islands
At The Photography Room in Kingston (Canberra) is the exhibition by Sean Davey — Solomon Islands (2016).
Wes Stacey
Australian Centre for Photography
Ansel Adam’s ‘Museum Set’ exhibition
North Carolina Museum of Art exhibition notice
click on image for the news of the exhibition of Ansel Adam’s ‘Museum Set’ — chosen by him to best represent his work.
Wesley Stacey
Exhibition notice: The Wild Thing
Exhibition of 40 years of photographs by Wesley Stacey at the Monash Gallery of Art, 4th March — 28 April 2017 — click here for details.
For more on Wesley — click here.
photography at Stills
Notice: Group Exhibition at Stills Gallery, Sydney
2 February — 4 March 2017 — click on image for images
Australian Centre for Photography
Under the Sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker
18 February — 17 April 2017 at State Library of New South Wales — click on image for the exhibition notice
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photography fair San Francisco 2017
Images from PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco — click on the image above.
Contemporary photography is alive and well!
Photography exhibition
Vertical No Limit: mountain photography
Musée de l’Elysée (Switzerland) till 30 April 2017 (click on image above)
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ArtBlat Review: Surveillance
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (click on image for review)
Joel Sternfeld
Exhibition: Colour photographs 1977–1988
Beetles+Huxley (London) till 18 February 2017
photofair San Francisco
John Schott
Exhibition notice: Route 66 by John Schott at Joseph Bowers Gallery
Click on the image for news on ArtDaily.
After Baldus: Travels in a Wounded Landscape
photography at Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Click on the image for the link to the exhibition by Theo Baart and Cary Markerink
The Photography Show NY 2017
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Werner Bischof
The Hague Museum of Photography celebrates Werner Bischof
FEMINIST AVANT-GARDE OF THE 1970s
till 29 Jan 2017 — Photographers Gallery London — click on image above
on Art Blat
Exhibition: ‘Lewis Baltz NEVADA’ at Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, California
Athol Shmith
Photography exhibition at the National Library Canberra
click on image for information on this small exhibition
Brett Weston at the Bruce Museum
Towards Abstraction, 1940–1985: Brett Weston
click on the image for the link to the Bruce Museum
Brassaï at the Pompidou Centre
an exhibition to the Graffiti series by Brassaï
Click on image above for link to exhibition notice on Artdaily.
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photography at the CCP Melbourne
Click on the image for the winners of the competition, CCP Salon.
Nassau County and the art of photography
Nassau County Museum of Arts devotes all galleries to the art of photography
Click here for the article on artdaily.
Prada Foundation moves into photography
Anne Shelton
Ann Shelton opens at Auckland Art Gallery
click on image for news about the photography exhibition 26 Nov 2016–17 April 2017
Film Stills at The Albertina
Film Stills photography exhibition in Vienna
from the museum site:
2016 FotoFocus Biennial
Photography Biennial, Cincinnati, 2016
The theme of FotoFocus 2016 is “The Un-Document,” and presents photography from over 100 international artists in 60 venues.
19th Century Vegetable Photographer
Photography: Relics of Old London
Yale Centre for British Art, 2016
From the gallery: This exhibition offered a glimpse of the lost architecture of preindustrial London, as captured in a series of carbon photoprints commissioned between 1875 and 1886 by the short-lived Society for Photographing the Relics of Old London.
National Galleries of Scotland’s photography
The View from Here, at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
The View from Here, brings together 70 key works that chart the history of landscape photography over the course of 175 years. click here for more.
Exhibition runs 29th October 2016 − 30th April 2017 — click here for the gallery site
Institute for Photography in Scotland
Great program for late 2016
check it out… click on the image above
Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh, Museum of Machines
The MAST Foundation in Bologna is presenting for the first time in Italy a major solo exhibition of contemporary photographs by Dayanita Singh.
Robyn Stacey
Dark Wonder, Stills Gallery Sydney
Click on the image for the review by Lenny Ann Low in the Fairfax news.
Exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery
The Image in Question at Michael Hoppen Gallery
click on the image for the link to the exhibition and
Harold Cazneaux Exhibition
Harold Cazneaux at the Australian national Maritime Museum
Polixeni Papapetrou
Featured photographer/artist
Click on the image above for the link to Polixeni’s web site and..
Valerie Sparks
Valerie Sparks wins Bowness
The Monash Gallery of Art has announced that Melbourne artist Valerie Sparks has won the 2016 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize with her work ‘Prospero’s Island – North East’ featuring one of Australia’s most iconic landscapes.
Click here for a link to the artist’s website.
Click here for the link to Monash Gallery of Art
Elliott Erwitt’s life and work
click here for the story on Art Daily – or here for the Harry Ransom Centre’s page
photography at the V&A
Portraits of William Eggleston
click on the image for the story about the exhibition of William Eggleston
Auckland Photography Festival
Click on the image for the link to the 2016 Auckland Photography Festival
Harold Cazneaux photographs for sale
Tonight was the successful launch of the exhibition of the vintage photographs by Harold Cazneaux.
Rediscovering Cazneaux
click on image for the link to the Daily Telegraph
Harold Cazneaux exhibition
Wei Leng Tay—The Other Shore
Click on image for the exhibition details at China In The World (ANU)
Edward S. Curtis
click on photo for exhibition details
Helen Muspratt
Click on image
Elton John’s Photos at the Tate
Photographs of 1930s China by Stanley O. Gregory
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Helen Levitt at Laurence Miller
New Zealand photography at Te Papa
Click on the image above for an article about the exhibition, New Zealnd Photography Collected on at Te Papa in Wellington, NZ.
Philippe Halsman at Jeu de Paume
click on image for the story from ArtDaily
Germaine Krull
World Photobook Day 2015
click on image for story
Photojournalist Esther Bubley
National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibits work by photojournalist Esther Bubley — click on photo for information
Photographic Portraits from West Africa
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In and Out of the Studio
Photographic Portraits from West Africa
August 31, 2015–January 3, 2016
Click image for link to the museum — or for ArtDaily — click here
Julia Margaret Cameron
After taking up photography at fifty-eight, Julia Margaret Cameron produced a remarkable and distinctive body of work, writes Richard Johnstone (The Inside Story). Click here for Richard’s review of the exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales — click here for the gallery link.
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A round up of current happenings in photography — via posts on Art Daily. Here’s the first:
Exhibition of botanical photographs by Karl Blossfeldt opens at Pinakothek der Moderne — click on the image
Singapore Photography
Loke Hong Seng at Yeo Workshops, Gillam Barracks Singapore till 6 Sept 2015
click on image for exhibition details
AMBER and Cartier-Bresson
A great and arguably under-celebrated social documentary collection in the UK is having a major retrospective in its home city of Newcastle upon Tyne, in the north-east of England. Forever Amber, celebrating the work of the Amber Film and Photography Collective, opens at the city’s Laing Art Gallery today (27 June-19 September).
Click on image for the notice or click here for the gallery site
Head On Photography
Excellent review of Head On portrait prize
click on image for link to article by Richard Johnstone
The Curatorial Crypt
an overview of photography events
Paris Photo LA Preivew (click on the image)
The Photograph and Australia
A Review worth reading — click on the image — and then get along to the exhibition
The Curatorial Crypt
A Week in photography (care of Artdaily)
Kate Breakey at the Michener Art Museum
Click on image for more
Ian North
Exhibition Notice
Ian North, East Antarctica 1915, Greenaway Art Gallery
Ian North’s latest exhibition is at the Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide, till April 26; Click here for the link to the gallery site. Click here for a review on The Conversation
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Colour my world: handcoloured Australian photography
National Gallery of Australia (Canberra) Exhibition open till 30 August 2015
Maggie Diaz
Photography at Manning Clark House
From the media statement: Maggie Diaz arrived in Australia on a one-way ticket in 1961, (a divorce gift from her Australian husband) and soon established herself as one of Melbourne’s leading commercial photographers.
Known for her expertise in using available light, Diaz had a genius for capturing character and situation.
The Photograph and Australia
Exhibition Notice
A must see exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, till 8 June 2015