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Saturday, July 9, 2011

The Science Behind the Medals

January 29, 2011 to November 20, 2011 – Weston Park Museum Drawing on the expertise of Sheffield Hallam University’s renowned Centre for Sports Engineering Research, Sports Lab will explore the genetic advantages of top sportsmen and women and the remarkabl… Organized by Sports Lab/Weston Park Museum | Type: exhibition
Wives and Sweethearts

February 9, 2011 at 6pm to July 30, 2011 at 7pm – National Army Museum The exhibition highlights the fascinating and changing roles of soldiers' partners from 19th-century 'Women of the Regiment' who worked as cooks and laundresses to modern Army families, where both p… Organized by National Army Museum | Type: exhibition
London Street Photography 1860-2010

February 18, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Museum of London An amazing collection of 'London Street Photography', spanning from 1860 to present day, is on display at The Museum of London. A great insight into street photography as well as the changes that ha… Organized by Museum of London | Type: exhibition
London Street Photography

February 18, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Museum of London This major new exhibition at the Museum of London showcases an extraordinary collection of London street photography with over 200 candid images of everyday life in the street. From sepia-toned scene… Organized by Museum of London | Type: exhibition
Alice in WonderlandFantastic everyday life and everyday fantasy blend in Alice in Wonderland, a major international exhibition of contemporary photographic art in Turku, the European Capital of Cultur

February 19, 2011 at 6pm to December 18, 2011 at 7pm – Logomo Fantastic everyday life and everyday fantasy blend in Alice in Wonderland, a major international exhibition of contemporary photographic art in Turku, the European Capital of Culture 2011, designed a… Organized by Elina Heikka | Type: exhibition
In Search of Biblical Lands: From Jerusalem to Jordan in 19th-Century Photography

March 2, 2011 to September 12, 2011 – Getty Villa This exhibition f eatures rare, early daguerreotypes, salted-paper prints, and albumen silver prints, created between the 1840s and 1900s by the leading photographers of the time, including Felice Be… Organized by Getty Museum | Type: exhibition
"Where I was born…" : A Photograph, a Clue, and the Discovery of Abel Boulineau

March 5, 2011 to August 21, 2011 – Art Gallery of Ontario This exhibition features for the first time the work of a completely unknown French photographer and his photographs of French regional life at the turn of the 20th century. The group of 1,702 gelati… Organized by Art Gallery of Ontario | Type: exhibition
EYE CONTACT: A potpourri of portraiture from the permanent collection

March 22, 2011 to August 6, 2011 – UCR/California Museum of Photography Not every subject in these portraits is looking directly at the photographer, but all are aware that the camera is looking at them. In that sense, all are formal portraits, as opposed to candid ones… Organized by UCR/California Museum of Photography | Type: exhibition
Icons of photography – Treasures from the Karin and Lars Hall collection

March 31, 2011 to August 15, 2011 – Statoil Office It is a great pleasure and honour for us to present such a unique collection of artists that have shaped the development of photography as an art form, says Jens R Jenssen, senior vice president of h… Organized by Karin Hall, Lars Hall and Arnt N Fredheim, Statoil art programm | Type: exhibition
Through the Colonial Lens: Photographs of 19th and 20th Century India

April 1, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Pacific Asia Museum This exhibition will feature more than 70 images in 2 rotations selected for both their striking imagery and for what they reveal about the dynamism of India in this era. Through the Colonial Lens lo… Organized by Pacific Asia Museum | Type: exhibition
Kashmir in 19th Century Photography

April 4, 2011 to October 2, 2011 – Museum für Asiatische Kunst - (Museum of Asian Art) This veritable Shangri-La at the foot of the Himalayas, with its favourable climate and picturesque landscape, has captivated people on their travels around India ever since the Great Moguls made the… Organized by Museum für Asiatische Kunst - (Museum of Asian Art) | Type: exhibition
Walking + Falling: Jim Campbell, Chris Marker and Eadweard Muybridge

April 4, 2011 to September 5, 2011 – Vancouver Art Gallery Walking + Falling presents the work of three notable artists who have utilized new media to explore and represent complex notions of time, movement and memory.Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was an En… Organized by Vancouver Art Gallery and Bruce Grenville, senior curator | Type: exhibition
A look at Harsh light, without compassion. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939

April 6, 2011 to August 22, 2011 – Sabatini Building, Floor 3, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía The worker-photography movement is often marginalized in discussions of how photographic modernism evolved over the course of the 20th century. This visit to the exhibition is intended to help recti… Organized by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía | Type: exhibition
Amateurs and Artists: Early photography and Plymouth

April 9, 2011 to July 30, 2011 – Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery Come and see some of the earliest photographs of Plymouth and discover the part played by the three towns of Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse in the development of photography. Amateurs and Artists… Organized by Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery/Royal Photographic Society | Type: exhibition
The Last Full Measure: Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection

April 12, 2011 to August 13, 2011 – The Library of Congress This exhibition, drawn from a recent gift from the Liljenquist family, will feature 379 Civil War-era ambrotypes and tintypes of enlisted Union and Confederate soldiers. These exceptional portraits d… Organized by The Library of Congress | Type: exhibition
New York's Civil War Soldiers – Photographs of Dr. R. B. Bontecou, Words of Walt Whitman

April 14, 2011 to August 1, 2011 – Merchant's House Museum Presented in collaboration with The Burns Archive, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. Photographs of wounded Civil War soldiers from New York regiments, on disp… Organized by Merchant's House Museum | Type: exhibition
The Lives of Great Photographers

April 15, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Gallery One, National Media Museum The Lives of Great Photographers is a compelling new exhibition drawn exclusively from the Museum’s extensive and diverse Photography Collection, including works from The Royal Photographic Societ… Organized by National Media Museum | Type: exhibition
American Dreams: 20th-Century Photography from George Eastman House

April 16, 2011 to July 10, 2011 – Bendigo Art Gallery George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film is the world's oldest photography museum and one of the world’s oldest film archives, first opening its doors to the public in Roches… Organized by Bendigo Art Gallery, | Type: exhibition
Faraway Places: Travel photography of the 19th century

April 18, 2011 to September 19, 2011 – Ilott Room, Level 4, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa In the 19th century, enterprising European photographers travelled to distant places such as Egypt, India, China, the American West, and the Pacific. Through the photographs they brought back, for th… Organized by Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa | Type: exhibition
Night Vision: Photography After Dark

April 26, 2011 to September 18, 2011 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art At the turn of the last century, night photography came into its own as an artistic genre. In the early years of the medium, capturing images under low-light conditions was nearly impossible, but by… Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
The Enemy At Home: The story of German internees in World War 1 Australia

May 7, 2011 to September 11, 2011 – Museum of Sydney Newly discovered photographs by internee Paul Dubotzki reveal what it was like to be interned in Australia during World War I. During World War I nearly 7000 so-called ‘enemy aliens’ were interned in… Organized by Museum of Sydney | Type: exhibition
Burke + Norfolk: Photographs From The War In Afghanistan

May 11, 2011 to July 10, 2011 – Level 2 Gallery, Tate Modern In October 2010, Simon Norfolk began a series of new photographs in Afghanistan, which takes its cue from the work of nineteenth-century British photographer John Burke. Norfolk’s photographs reimagi… Organized by Tate Modern | Type: exhibition
Some Photographs taken in France

May 12, 2011 to July 16, 2011 – Diemar/Noble Photography Celebration of the first century of photography in France with vintage photographs using a variety of techniques and on all sorts of subjects.Michael Diemar, gallery director of Diemar/Noble Photogra… Organized by Diemar/Noble | Type: exhibition
Liverpool Photography Festival

May 13, 2011 at 5pm to July 16, 2011 at 12pm – Liverpool Liverpool Photography Festival Look 11 starts Friday 13th May. http://www.look2011.co.uk/ My newly commissioned work 'Dogs in Cages' will be showing at the Bluecoat Gallery as part of the 'Confined'… Organized by Look 11 | Type: photography, festival
Scottish Art 1650 - 2010: work from the city's collection

May 14, 2011 to July 10, 2011 – City Art Centre For the first time in over a decade five floors of the City Art Centre will be devoted to a display from the City's art collection. Spanning over 400 years of work, a great many of Scotland's leading… Organized by City Art Centre | Type: exhibition
The Century of the Film

May 26, 2011 to April 30, 2012 – Swiss Camera Museum When films on a flexible support appeared on the market in the 1880s, the whole world of photography was radically transformed. Cameras underwent a complete metamorphosis, rapidly becoming smaller a… Organized by Swiss Camera Museum | Type: exhibition
Eugène Atget - Paris, 1898 – 1924

May 27, 2011 to August 27, 2011 – FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE The FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE presents, for the first time in Spain, the work of the French photographer Eugène Atget (Libourne, 1857 - Paris, 1927), u unique master whose work made a crucial contribution to… Organized by FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE | Type: exhibition
Recording the New: The architectural photography of Bedford Lemere & Co. 1870-1930

June 4, 2011 to October 30, 2011 – Architecture, Room 128a, The Victoria and Albert Museum Bedford Lemere & Co. was the leading architectural photography company of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In business from the 1870s until the 1940s Bedford Lemere and his son Harry Bedfo… Organized by The Victoria and Albert Museum | Type: exhibition
Scott’s Last Expedition

June 17, 2011 to October 16, 2011 – Australian National Maritime Museum When Captain Robert Falcon Scott set off on his second voyage to explore Antarctica - the British Antarctic Expedition 1910 - he could not have predicted it would be his last. He died on the return j… Organized by Australian National Maritime Museum | Type: exhibition
Arctic Bound: An exhibition of photographs by Alexander Rodger & David Dickson, 1894-7

June 17, 2011 at 9am to September 30, 2011 at 4:45pm – St Andrews University, School of Art History In the 1890s two young naturalists were sent on expeditions to the Arctic to collect specimens for the Zoology Museum of Professor D'Arcy Thompson at University College, Dundee. They also took photog… Organized by University of Dundee Museum Service | Type: exhibition
Visions of Machu Picchu - 100 years of black and white photography

June 21, 2011 to August 14, 2011 – North American–Peruvian Cultural Institute In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Machu Picchu, a photography exhibition titled "Visiones de Machu Picchu - 100 años de fotografia en blanco y negro"(Visions of Machu Picchu… Organized by North American–Peruvian Cultural Institute | Type: exhibition
Jules Beck (1825-1904) - Early High Mountain Photography in Switzerland

June 21, 2011 to September 25, 2011 – Swiss Alpine Museum In this digital age, one cannot but wonder at the achievement of the valiant photographer-mountain climber 140 years ago. Jules Beck – who grew up in Biel, Berne, Vevey and Strasbourg – was the first… Organized by Swiss Alpine Museum | Type: exhibition
New Bedford Through the Lens - A Walk Through History

June 22, 2011 to September 11, 2011 – New Bedford Art Museum New Bedford Through the Lens portrays the history of New Bedford through the lens of a representative sampling of photographers from the 1850s to the late 20th century. The sub-titled A Walk Through… Organized by New Bedford Art Museum | Type: exhibition
Anna Fox. RESORT. Pallant House Exhibition

June 24, 2011 at 6pm to October 2, 2011 at 6pm – Pallant House Gallery Works from Anna Fox's newest series RESORT are being showcased this summer at Pallant House Gallery from the 24 June to 2 October. RESORT is the culmination of a two year commission by holiday camp… Organized by | Type: exhibition
Photographs by James Robertson: Athens and Grecian Antiquities" (1853-1854)

June 28, 2011 to August 21, 2011 – Benaki Museum Photographs by Scottish photographer James Robertson (1813-1888) will be exhibited at Benaki Museum in Athens until August 21. The exhibition features 38 photographs included in the portfolio: "Ph… Organized by Benaki Museum | Type: exhibition
Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century

June 30, 2011 to October 2, 2011 – Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi each left Hungary to make their names in Germany, France and the USA, and are now known for the profound changes they broug… Organized by Royal Academy of Arts | Type: exhibition
Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century

June 30, 2011 to October 2, 2011 – Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi each left Hungary to make their names in Germany, France and the USA, and are now known for the profound changes they broug… Organized by Royal Academy of Arts | Type: exhibition
England at Work, English Heritage

June 30, 2011 to November 11, 2011 – Bradford Industrial Museum A photographic exhibition from the archives of English Heritage. From Victorian times to the recent past these images offer a glimpse into the everyday lives of people at work. A wide variety of occu… Organized by Bradford Industrial Museum | Type: exhibition
Street Markets of London in the 1940s - Walter Joseph

July 1, 2011 to July 31, 2011 – British Library Recently acquired by the British Library, LSPF is proud to present this work to the public for the first time. Walter Felix Abraham Joseph (1922-2003) was born in Darmstadt to an Orthodox Jewish coup… Organized by British Library | Type: exhibition
London Street Photography Festival 2011

July 1, 2011 to July 31, 2011 – London World-class photography takes over London’s most celebrated venues, large and small, for the festival’s inaugural year. The London Street Photography Festival launches this summer to celebrate the ti… Organized by London Street Photography Festival | Type: festival
Festival of Victorian Photography

July 2, 2011 to July 29, 2011 – Artsbank Gallery UPDATE: Further information can be foud on this link here. Sixteen photographers, who specialise in Victoria-style photography, visited Saltburn to snap scenes with a slant going back 150 years which… Organized by Artsbank Gallery | Type: exhibition
Picture This! One Hundred Years of Photography

July 2, 2011 to December 31, 2011 – National Archives at Kansas City Picture This! chronicles major events of the twentieth century -- immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the Wright Brothers' first flight, construction of the Empire State Building, Depression-era sou… Organized by National Archives at Kansas City | Type: exhibition
Traces of Traces: An Exploration of the Albums of William McKinney

July 6, 2011 to July 24, 2011 – Fort Dunree A new photographic exhibition of work by Ulster academic Professor Sarah Edge is now open for viewing at Fort Dunree, Co Donegal. The exhibition features images exploring the ties between Ulster and… Organized by Artlink/Fort Dunree | Type: exhibition
Wittgenstein and photography

July 7, 2011 to July 15, 2011 – Photographic & Illustration Service, First Floor, Old Examination Hall Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born in Vienna, at one of the summer residences of the family on the outskirts of Vienna, in Neuwaldegg, on 26 April 1889 at 8.30 p.m. This year marks the 60th An… Organized by Photographic and Illustration Service, University of Cambridge | Type: exhibition
Photographs by Ken Burkhart

July 8, 2011 at 7pm to August 12, 2011 at 5pm – Brickton Art Center OnView is please to sponsor an exhibition of photographs by Ken Burkhart at Brickton Art Center from July 8 through August 12, 2011. Join Ken for an opening reception on Friday, July 8 from 7-9pm at… Organized by OnView Gallery | Type: exhibition
Likenesses in the Latest Style: Historical Portrait Photography

July 9, 2011 to October 30, 2011 – THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM Likenesses in the Latest Style explores the formative era of portrait photography through an assemblage of dozens of stunning original images. Emerging in the mid-nineteenth century simultaneously wi… Organized by THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM | Type: exhibition