Category Archives: Exhibitions
Promoting our exhibition at the Truman Brewery
With a new blog dedicated to just that
You can find the blog to our ‘Patience exhibition’,Here
A couple of dates for the diary…
Some noteworthy exhibitions to visit and write reports on..
I like visiting photography exhibitions as it is, but now I’m having to think about ones I want to visit and write a 1500 word report on. This is because I am having to do a bridging essay to get in to the UNI i want to go to, to finish off my BA in London. I’ve been looking into what’s going on in London in the next few months, and well, there’s only two exhibs that I’ve found so far that I want to visit…
Somerset house is quickly becoming my favourite place to hunt out exhibitions.
Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition
26 April – 12 May 2013
The Sony World Photography Awards are widely recognised as one of the world’s leading photography competitions and the exhibition showcasing the extraordinary award-winning and shortlisted entries, held annually at Somerset House, returns this April. Offering a stunning snapshot of the world in 2012, the show will present international contemporary photography from both professionals and amateurs in the fields of fashion, travel, wildlife, landscape, portraiture and current affairs. T
The exhibition will also include a special display of work by iconic American photographer William Eggleston, who will receive the Outstanding Contribution to Photography award at the Sony World Photography Awards Gala Ceremony on 25 April.
Go here for more information.
Blumenfeld Studio: New York, 1941–1960
23 May–1 September 2013
Open daily 10.00-18.00 (Last admission 17.30)
East Wing Galleries, East Wing
Free admission
Berlin-born photographer Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) was one of the most internationally sought-after portrait and fashion photographers in the 1940s and 1950s. America’s leading magazines, including Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar hired him for his imaginative and highly individual shots. The show focuses on the little-known history of his photography studio at 222 Central Park South in New York. Around 100 colour photographs and originals of Erwin Blumenfeld’s works in fashion magazines provide insights into this key artstic phase in his life.
His charm, vanity and vivacious personality
A few words to describe Royal Photographer, Cecil Beaton
With many of his photographs taken of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, this is an exhibition you wouldn’t really want to miss. It is open until this Sunday the 22 of April, so not long left if you want to go!
“The photographs of the British royal family by Sir Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) were central to shaping the monarchy’s public image in the mid-20th century. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was still a young princess when she first sat for Beaton in 1942. Over the next three decades he would be invited to photograph the Queen on many significant occasions, including her Coronation Day in 1953.
The most memorable of Beaton’s images combine the splendour of historic royal portrait painting with an intimacy that only photography and film can convey. His detailed diary accounts reveal the complexities of each sitting, from the intense planning and excitement beforehand to the pressures of achieving the perfect shot.
Beaton bequeathed his archive of royal portraits to his devoted secretary Eileen Hose. In 1987 she, in turn, bequeathed the archive to the V&A. Photographs, diaries, personal letters and press cuttings combine to tell the fascinating story of a magnificent collaboration between crown and camera.”
To read more about the exhibition, please visit the V&A museums site.
Posted by Gema of GemaKatherine Photography
Norman Parkinson
People are talking about…
An Eye For Fashion
Norman Parkinson Photographs
British Designers 1954-1964
21 January – 15 April 2012
Bristol M Shed.
Norman Parkinson is most definitely a photographer to be celebrated. The photographs at this exhibition are taken from the Angela Williams Archive ‘Designers of British Fashion’ portfolio. Angela Williams who is giving a talk at the M Shed on March 17th, was also the assistant of Parkinson in the 1960’s. So that will be something not to be missed!
What struck me most (and perhaps everyone else) about all the photographs is just how seemingly effortlessly glamorous they are. Of course when you see these photos were highly featured in Vogue magazine, you just knew there would be an extreme touch of glamour in the portraits to begin with! They all have a striking natural beauty within impressively but subtly staged settings.
Here are a few of Parkinson’s photographs:
Posted by Gema @ gemakatherine.wordpress.com
Augustus John: A Life in Portraits Exhibition
If anybody is up for going to a Portraiture Exibition up until the 18th March 2012, this will be a very interesting one to visist!
Check out the website for more details by clicking here.
Link Library Exhibition
Monday 19th March until 31st March.
These are the dates we have booked for our own exhibition, held at the Link Centres Library in West Swindon.
Quite advance notice, but save a date to go have a look in between those days!
Signs of a Struggle
Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism
. At the V&A museum.
“This display explores photographs that make reference to themselves, other media and texts, and demonstrates how such Postmodernist approaches to photography have persisted for over 30 years.”
The exhibition is playing host to works of some quite influential artists, a few who you may be already familiar with – Cindy Sherman, Sian Bonnel, David Shrigley… (Whose books are hilariously entertaining. And if you do like his work, I suggest buying ‘What the hell are you doing?’)
Also newly open at the V&A museum on the third floor, is a permanent new photography gallery with photographs from the likes of Bill Brandt, Diane Arbus, and Henri Cartier Bresson. Most definitely worth a look – this exhibition isn’t going anywhere!
Just for a taster: An image by Diane Arbus ‘Twins’
Posted by Gema
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