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PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE HISTORICISM OF POVERTY: Shirley Baker at the Photographers' Gallery

August 29, 2015 - Shirley Baker: Women, Children and Loitering Men Photographers’ Gallery (until September 20 2015) “Street photogra...
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CHRIS STEIN’S PHOTOS OF DEBBIE HARRY – the journey of a personal archive

December 27, 2014 - There won’t be many visiting Somerset House’s exhibition of Chris Stein’s photographs of Debbie Harry and musicians from...
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THINKING ABOUT EDWARD STEICHEN – the architectonic use of light

December 12, 2014 - I was shocked on one occasion to read Edward Steichen described as a ‘street photographer’. It is hard to imagine a phot...
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ELGER ESSER'S PHOTOGRAPHY - a new romanticism?

November 16, 2014 - No one would be surprised to learn that one of Germany's most respected contemporary photographers was a student of Bern...
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RUTH BERNHARD: BODY AND FORM - Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa.

November 13, 2014 - The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, which opened in 2001 and now located in the museum quarter in Tampa, has built...
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O. WINSTON LINK - more than a railway photographer

October 27, 2014 - I confess this post doesn’t sound promising. It is about O. Winston Link, a little-known photographer who specialized i...
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AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS - Alec Soth and others in Milwaukee and Madison, Wisconsin

October 24, 2014 - A certain meaning and format has come to be associated with the term "American Photographs" which seems to reflect the d...
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SARAH CHARLESWORTH 'STILLS' - Chicago Institute of Art

October 15, 2014 - As part of their celebration of 50 years of photographic curation, the Art Institute of Chicago is currently showing 'St...
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THE POWER OF MONO - ART AS ACTIVISM, Artis-Naples, Florida

September 24, 2014 - Why has black and white photography been able to maintain a vibrant presence in a world dominated by color images? The a...
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FRANCESCA WOODMAN, 'ZIGZAG', VICTORIA MIRO GALLERY

September 10, 2014 - Artists who choose to make themselves the subject of their work are obvious targets for the charge of narcissism while f...
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CUBAN ART

May 20, 2014 - Cuban Art Here in Naples, Florida, the von Liebig Art Museum has just opened an exhibition of Cuban Art with over 30 exh...
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E J MAJOR, MATT ROBERTS ARTS

March 14, 2012 - E J Major, Matt Roberts Arts Two works at the Matt Roberts Gallery in Bethnal Green have recently showcased the young ph...
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HUNGARIAN PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

March 14, 2012 - Most serious photographers will have visited the Royal Academy’s recent exhibition “Eyewitness - Hungarian photography i...
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SOVIET ARCHITECTURE

March 14, 2012 - I believe that photography should be situated alongside general artistic practice - a part of it, informed by it and jus...
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