London Photography Exhibitions

MAR11

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London Photography Exhibitions

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London Photography Exhibitions this week include two exhibitions which are ending and a first mention of two others worth a look. Ending exhibition, Guy Bourdin: Image Maker exhibition is coming to it’s final weekend at Somerset House. Meanwhile two London Photography Exhibitions in Fitzrovia and Chelsea are worth a look. In Fitzrovia, British Journal of Photography Award winning photographer Dominic Hawgood puts on his first solo exhibition at T J. Boulting. Over in Chelsea the Little Black Gallery, just off the Fulham Road, is showing an Iris Della Roca exhibition. Finally the Tate Modern Exhibition, ‘Conflict, Time, Photography’ ends this weekend. That’s a lot of London Photography Exhibitions to get round this weekend!

Don’t leave it too late to see Image Maker if you haven’t yet been… there is so much on display at this exhibition that some decide to go twice to be able to take it all in. If you’re looking for more Guy Bourdin, there’s another display at the Michael Hoppen Gallery in Chelsea. They have three floors of exhibition open at the moment plus an online gallery on the newly re-launched website. Details below on these and other London Photography Exhibitions.

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Guy Bourdin: Image Maker

Ending soon!
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.

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

Conflict, Time, Photography

Ending soon!
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 London Photography exhibition is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War.

Where: Tate Modern.
Ending soon!
Ends: Sunday, 15th March, 2015.
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More information: Tate Modern.

Dominic Hawgood: Under the Influence

Free admission.
Dominic Hawgood, winner of a British Journal of Photography Award on his first solo exhibition at T J. Boulting. Under the Influence explores the boundaries between real and fake with a focus on objects relating to exorcism ceremonies in London’s evangelical churches. The presentation is immaculate. As visitors walk around the pristine white, sculpted gangway in the provided socks (to protect the installation floor) a hint of sense of theatre is generated . With the exhibition exploring the boundaries between real and fake, a further question of theatre, this time in the images on display themselves, is raised.

“Blurring reality and fiction, the theatricality of evangelism is explored in a series of advertising-inspired image”, British Journal of Photography.

Dominic Hawgood will talk at T J. Boulting on Wednesday 18th March. Email the gallery for more details [email protected].

Free admission.
Where: T J. Boulting.
Ends: Saturday, 21th March, 2015.
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More information: T J. Boulting.

Iris Della Roca

Free admission.
Iris Della Roca’s debut London show features shots from the Rocinha favela in Rio de Janeiro, where she lives. Working with an NGO in Rio she has gained the trust of the children in her captures. Iris is a member of World Wide Women, a collective aiming to represent the spirit of women in the world of art. The exhibition features children posing in their own imaginations’ image of themselves as film stars.

Free admission.
Where: The Little Black Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 21th March, 2015.
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Salt and Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860

You may have been to see the Drawn by Light exhibiton 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.

Thomas Joshua Cooper: Scattered Waters – Sources Streams Rivers

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”.

Where: Fleming Collection.
Ends: Saturday, 11th April, 2015.
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The Mountains of Majeed

The Mountains of Majeed at the Flowers Gallery is a reflection by Edmund Clark on the end of “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afgahanistan. Clark spent 10 days at Bagram Airfield in 2013, photographing everything from mess halls and sewage treatment system to colourful murals and paintings.
Free admission.
Where: Flowers Gallery.
Ends: Saturday, 4th April, 2015.
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More information: Flowers Gallery.

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.

Human Rights Human Wrongs

This photojournalism exhibition showcases an overwhelming 300 black and white images from the Black Start agency, spanning 50 years of international history. The exhibition is remarkable: intense, informative, historically significant and often harrowing according to the Evening Standard.”Moving around the gallery is like leaping in a disorientating way across time and space” Disphotic.

Where: The Photographers’ Gallery.
Ends: Monday, 6th April, 2015.
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More information: The Photographers’ Gallery.

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.

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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