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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography

May 12, 2010 to March 21, 2011 – The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, Third Floor, The Museum of Modern Art For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of… Organized by The Museum of Modern Art | Type: exhibition
The Other Britain Revisited: Photographs from New Society

May 14, 2010 to September 26, 2010 – Photography Gallery 38A, V&A South Kensington As reported by the blog creator, this exhibition shows the outstanding documentary photographs from 1962 to 1982, originally published in the pioneering magazine New Society. The display will feature… Organized by Michael Wong | Type: exhibition
Exposed : Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera

May 28, 2010 to October 3, 2010 – Tate Modern An insight into photographic images made surreptitiously or without the explicit permission of those depicted. Spanning a variety of lens-based media from the late nineteenth century to the present… Organized by Tate Modern | Type: exhibition
Photographs from 19th Century Japan and China: Masterpieces from the Photographic Collection

June 18, 2010 to January 9, 2011 – Museum Ludwig Following the presentation of outstanding works from the history of 20th century photography, Museum Ludwig is now highlighting a new section of its extensive photographic holdings. Beginning 11 June… Organized by Museum Ludwig | Type: exhibition
Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, 1834 - 1910

July 15, 2010 to October 24, 2010 – Porter Gallery, National Portrait Gallery Camille Silvy was a pioneer of early photography and one of the greatest French photographers of the nineteenth century. This exhibition includes many remarkable images which have not been exhibited… Organized by Jeu de Paume, Paris, in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, London | Type: exhibition
Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic adventure

July 16, 2010 to January 3, 2011 – Merseyside Maritime Museum A landmark exhibition about an incredible real life tale of survival, the epic story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition. The exhibition features about 150 compelling photographs of… Organized by Merseyside Maritime Museum | Type: exhibition
Life through the lens: snapshots of Salford's past

July 28, 2010 to March 1, 2011 – Salford Museum & Art Gallery To celebrate 10 years of the LifeTimes project, this exhibition shows some of the hidden gems from the museum, LifeTimes and local history library photographic collections. On display are images of… Organized by Salford Museum & Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
A Rare Gift: The Noel and Harriette Levine Collection of Photographs

July 31, 2010 to October 2, 2010 – The Israel Museum The Noel and Harriette Levine Photography Collection, spanning over 170 years, is considered among the finest photography collections in private hands and is being presented in its first public displ… Organized by The Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today

August 1, 2010 to November 1, 2010 – The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor Since its birth in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has offered an unprecedented way to analyze works of art for further study. Through crop, focus, angle of view, degree of clos… Organized by The Museum of Modern Art | Type: exhibition
Photos & Postcards: The Originals of G.R. Lambert

August 2, 2010 to January 2, 2011 – Singapore Philatelic Museum An exhibition featuring a rare collection of GR Lambert 19th century photographs, and historical picture postcards in the late 19th to mid 20th century of early Singapore. Gustave Richard Lambert ar… Organized by Singapore Philatelic Museum | Type: exhibition
One Hundred Vintage Views of India

August 6, 2010 at 6pm to March 25, 2011 at 7pm – http://www.shapero.com/India/flash.html#/1/ Bernard J Shapero Rare Books, London and Tasveer, Bangalore are pleased to present this touring exhibition, One Hundred Vintage Views of India. The collection does not by any means attempt to portray… Organized by Roland Belgrave | Type: exhibition
A Circle and a Centure: Panoramic views of Reading from the 1890s and today

August 10, 2010 to October 29, 2010 – Staircase Hall, Museum of English Rural Life Using historic photographs from MERL's collections and modern digital photographs taken by Chris Widdows for the Reading Civic Society, this exhibition will present fescinating ad contrasting views o… Organized by Museum of English Rural Life | Type: exhibition
Photos: 100 Years of Girlguiding

August 13, 2010 to November 1, 2010 – Christ Church Celebrating 100 years of Girlguiding with a wonderful exhibition of photos from the early 1930s through to the present day. Were you a Brownie or a Guide? Come and relive some of your memories. Free… Organized by | Type: exhibition
The Indian Empire, Multiple Realities: Selections from the Portvale Collection

August 19, 2010 to November 7, 2010 – Asian Gallery, Ground Level, Art Gallery NSW This ambitious exhibition, shaped by a promised gift of works from the Portvale Collection, introduces the competing narratives that emerged following the first European encounters with India. The i… Organized by Art Gallery NSW | Type: exhibition
John Mercer: Lancashire's Curious Chemist

August 23, 2010 to November 22, 2010 – Queen Street Mill Textile Museum John Mercer of Great Harwood is one of Lancashire's unsung heroes. A Victorian man of science, his interests in chemistry and photography, printing and dyeing raised the game for the Lancashire texti… Organized by Queen Street Mill Textile Museum/Royal Society | Type: exhibition
New Woman: Corsets and Cameras: Photography, Bicycling and the New Woman in Turn-of-the-Century America

August 28, 2010 to December 31, 2010 – Henisch Photo-History Collection Exhibit Room, 201A Pattee Library Photographs, postcards, books, periodicals, advertisements and other original documents highlight the advent of the New Woman onto the American scene in the 1890s. Young, active, fashionable, adventu… Organized by | Type: exhibition
Celebrating the Negative

September 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010 – Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum A collection of photographs brought together in this exhibition to commemorate the 175th anniversary of Fox Talbot creating the first photographic negative in Lacock in 1835. Please do double-check… Organized by Fox Talbot Museum | Type: exhibition
American Ferrotypes: Second half of the 19th century

September 4, 2010 to January 9, 2011 – Swiss Camera Museum If you happen to be trekking in Switzerland this autumn, try and pop in to view this exhibition. In 1853 the French photographer Adolphe Martin invented the ferrotype process in which the sensitive… Organized by Swiss Camera Museum | Type: exhibition
Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection

September 7, 2010 to January 2, 2011 – Harry Ransom Center UPDATE: David Coleman, the Ransom Center's Curator of Photography, leads a free gallery tour of Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection, on Thursday September 16th and Tuesd… Organized by Harry Ransom Center and the Gernsheim Collection | Type: exhibition
Eadweard Muybridge

September 8, 2010 to January 16, 2011 – Linbury Galleries, Tate Britain Update: A video review of this travelling exhibition by Corcoran (Washington) chief curator and head of research Philip Brookman can be found here. The pioneering British photographer Eadweard Muybr… Organized by Tate Britain and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington | Type: exhibition
Post-Mortem Photography

September 9, 2010 to November 29, 2010 – Merchant's House Museum In partnership with the Burns Archive, publishers of the award-winning photo book "Sleeping Beauty," the Merchant's House Museum will present an in situ exhibition of 19th-century post-mortem photogr… Organized by Merchant's House Museum | Type: exhibition
Muybridge Revolutions Exhibition

September 10, 2010 at 12:30pm to February 12, 2011 at 5pm – Kingston Museum Opening exactly a century after the first Muybridge exhibition at Kingston Museum, this exhibition focuses on some of the rarest surviving objects within the museum’s collection: Muybridge’s beautifu… Organized by Peta louise Cook | Type: exhibition
In Focus: Still Life

September 14, 2010 to January 23, 2011 – The J Paul Getty Museum The term still life was coined during the 1600s, when painted examples were popular throughout Europe, and artists created increasingly complex compositions, bringing together a broad variety of obje… Organized by The J Paul Getty Museum | Type: exhibition
Bristol Photography Heritage Day and Exhibition

September 17, 2010 to September 27, 2010 – Bristol Central Library Visitors to Bristol’s Central Library can enjoy an exhibition of nineteenth century photographic prints of Bristol and the surrounding area. The exhibition, which started on Monday September 6 runs t… Organized by Bristol City Council | Type: exhibition
Bromoils: Eric Mitchell

September 17, 2010 at 6pm to October 31, 2010 at 7pm – Dimbola Lodge The Isle of Wight based photographer Eric Mitchell is fascinated by the old processes of photography and by the Bromoil process in particular. This exhibition shows a small selection of images that… Organized by Dimbola Lodge/Eric Mitchell | Type: exhibition
Muybridge Revolutions

September 18, 2010 to February 12, 2011 – Kingston Museum No shortage of Muybridge exhibitions! Pioneering moving image photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), left a valuable cultural legacy to his home town of Kingston upon Thames. This outstanding… Organized by Kingston Museum | Type: exhibition
Muybridge in Kingston Exhibitions

September 18, 2010 at 12:30pm to February 12, 2011 at 5pm – Kingston Museum and Kingston University's Stanley Picker Gallery Eadweard Muybridge was one of the world's most innovative and influential photographic pioneers. Undertaking extensive studies of humans and animals in motion, his influential body of work played a c… Organized by Peta louise Cook | Type: exhibition
London Photograph Fair

September 19, 2010 from 10am to 4pm – Coram Street, Bloomsbury WC1 From the website: "London Photograph Fairs, now in its 18th year is devoted solely to the sale of photographic images from the 19th and 20th century, and to books on the history and art of photograp… Organized by | Type: photograph, fair
Whitechapel Gallery Open Archive Tour

September 19, 2010 from 2pm to 6pm – Whitechapel Gallery The Whitechapel Art Gallery was founded in 1901 and its archives hold an extensive range of material produced by the Gallery from the past 100 years. Included in the collection are publications, rare… Organized by Whitechapel Gallery | Type: tour