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London Photography Exhibitions – Coming Week

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Two exhibitions are ending this weekend: By Set Square, Compass and Eye at South Kiosk in Borough and the Art Kane retrospective at Snap Galleries. South Kiosk, a few minutes walk from Borough Market, exhibits work by artists who build new platforms for the production and display of their work, as well as those who resurrect technologies which were more common in the past but are less prominent today. Visit their website to find out more.

Both exhibitions are free and worth a visit if you have time to spare while waiting for your table for you Valentine’s dinner date! See below for more details.

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By Set Square, Compass and Eye

Final days!
Free admission.
By Set Square, Compass and Eye unites the work of Emma Charles and Alicja Dobrucka. The common theme is the feature of a landscape being impacted by economic progress. For Emma Charles the Allegheny mountains between the trading capitals of New York and Chicago are the backdrop. Small tunnels have been drilled through the mountains to allow fibre optic cables to be threaded through, facilitating lightning fast high speed trading. Dobrucka has the changing economic landscape in India as it’s backdrop. High-rise towers are being constructed in Mumbai – an aspiration for the growing middle classes as the new rich move into residential mountainous skyscrapers which tower over slum ‘valleys’.

Free admission.
Where: South Kiosk.
Ends: Saturday, 14th February, 2015.
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More information: South Kiosk.

Art Kane: Retrospective

Final days!
Art Kane spent the 1960s and 70s snapping rock stars, fashion and everyday life US life. The Art Kane catalogue features portraits of music icons across teh gamut, from the Doors to Louis Armstrong and Bob Dylan to the Rolling Stones. Snap Galleries cast the net wider, including a wider selection of shots from the Retrospective book.
Where: Snap Galleries.
Ends: Saturday, 14th February, 2015.
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More information: Snap Galleries.

Guy Bourdin – Walking Legs

Free admission.
Michael Hoppen Gallery is a gallery in Chelsea which shows contemporary as well as classic photography. The latest exhibition opens on Friday 6th February and focusses on Bourdin’s 1979 campaign for Charles Jourdan. Bourdin had a long collaboration with the shoe fashion house and typical to Bourdin’s style, the feature of the campaign was not the Charles Jourdan shoes, but a pair of walking legs shot around England. If you like this exhibition then you definitely also visit “Image Maker” at Somerset house, mentioned below.
Free admission.
Where: Michael Hoppen Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 28th March, 2015.
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More information: Michael Hoppen Gallery.

Building Images: The Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Prize

Free admission.
Building Images is an exhibition exploring four architectural themes: Building in use, Exteriors, Interiors and Sense of place and features the work of 14 of the world’s most renowned architectural photographers. The exhibition at Sto Werkstatt, in Clerkenwell, features winning images from The Arcaid Images Architectural Photography Awards 2014. The awards aim to reward the creativity of the photographer.

Free admission.
Where: Sto Werkstatt.
Ends: Saturday, 28th February, 2015.
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More information: Sto Werkstatt.

Guy Bourdin: Image Maker

Guy Bourdin, the French, Fashion Photographer was known for his startling and provocative images which, unconventionally for fashion, told a story, giving the clothes themselves a secondary role. Like his contemporary Helmut Newton, Bourdin worked for Vogue. The two complemented each other according to Bourdin: “Between him and me the magazine became pretty irresistible in many ways… if he had been alone or I had been alone it wouldn’t have worked.” As well as Vogue, Bourdin worked for Harper’s Bazaar and shot campaigns for Chanel, Issey Miyake and Gianni Versace. He is said to be an influence for modern fashion photography icons including Nick Knight and Tim Walker.
This exhibition features over 100 works from the compositional image-maker and is the largest ever exhibition of the influential photographer, charting his career from protege of Man Ray to photography revolutionary in his own right.

Where: Somerset House.
Ends: Sunday, 15th March, 2015.
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More information: Somerset House.

Bryan Adams: Wounded – The Legacy of War

Free Admission.
Wounded is a compilation of over 30 photographs by Bryan Adams, more commonly known as the singer who performed the power ballad which spent 16 weeks at the top of the UK charts. The photographs are portraits of young British servicemen and servicewomen who were injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The exhibition is accompanied by a book, Wounded: The Legacy of War published by Steidl, priced at £50 with proceeds from the book going to veteran support charities BLESMA, Blind Veterans UK, Combat Stress and SSAFA, and War Child. It features images of 40 veteran soldiers taken by Adams, accompanied by each soldier’s personal story.

Free admission.
Where: Somerset House.
Ends: Sunday, 25th January, 2015.
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More information: Somerset House.

Drawn by Light: The Royal Photographic Society Collection

Drawn by light is a collection of “some of the greatest photographs taken by some of the greatest photographers who ever lived” according to Colin Harding, a curator at the National Media Museum. The Royal Photographic Society archive consists of over 250,00 images, making it one of the most important and comprehensive photographic collections globally. This exhibition brings together over 200 highlights form the collection ranging from with work of early photography pioneers such as Julia Margaret Cameron and William Henry Fox Talbot to modern day giants such as Martin Parr and Terry O’Neill.

Where: The Science Museum.
Ends: Sunday, 1st March, 2015.
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More information: The Science 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.

Conflict, Time, Photography

Conflict, Time, Photography focuses on conflicts over the last 150 years, since the invention of photography. The exhibition is moving, including photographs of the Hiroshima mushroom cloud as well as more recent images from conflicts in Afghanistan. The exhibition is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War.

Where: Tate Modern.
Ends: Sunday, 21st June, 2015.
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More information: Tate Modern.

Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Free Admission.
An exhibition of the winning images from around the world for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2014 competition. Features solar eclipses, aurorae, nebulae and much, much more.

Free admission.
Where: Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Ends: Sunday, 22nd February, 2015.
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More information: Royal Observatory Greenwich.

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