Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
All Michael Wong Events on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
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The Darkroom: Extraordinary stories from the history o f Dutch photography
August 19, 2011 to December 29, 2013 – Las Palmas Building, Nederlands Fotomuseum In The Netherlands there isn’t a permanent place where photo history is shown. The Fotomuseum fills this void with a new exhibition where aspects of the Dutch photography history is shown by the coll… Organized by Nederlands Fotomuseum | Type: exhibition
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People, Lives and Landscapes, 1898-1934: Images from the Land of the Bible
January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
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People, Lives and Landscapes, 1898-1934: mages from the Land of the Bible
January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
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People, Lives and Landscapes, 1898-1934: Images from the Land of the Bible
January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
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Scott's Last Expedition
January 20, 2012 to September 2, 2012 – Natural History Museum Scott's Last Expedition reveals powerful stories of human endeavour and struggles for survival, and celebrates the expedition's scientific achievements. Get a real sense of the everyday realities and… Organized by Natural History Museum, London, Antarctic Heritage Trust (New Zealand) and Canterbury Museum, New Zealand | Type: exhibition
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The Queen: 60 Photographs for 60 Years
February 4, 2012 to October 28, 2012 – Windsor Castle Sixty photographs of The Queen, including the work of leading press photographers of the past six decades, are brought together for a display at Windsor Castle to celebrate Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubi… Organized by The Boss herself | Type: exhibition
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Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography
February 9, 2012 to August 12, 2012 – Trapholt Museum Since its invention in 1839, photography has provoked numerous controversies and sensational trials. The photographic image has been at the centre of important ethical debates and legal questions thr… Organized by Trapholt Museum/Musée de l’Elysée | Type: exhibition
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Island Stories: British photography from 1945 to the present
March 16, 2012 to September 19, 2012 – Room 38a, Victoria & Albert Museum Drawn exclusively from the V&A collections, this display is a selection of around 70 photographs celebrating the variety of photography in the UK since 1945. It captures the diversity of the isla… Organized by Victoria & Albert Museum | Type: exhibition
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Untold Stories
March 23, 2012 to September 16, 2012 – Brackett–Clark Gallery, George Eastman House George Eastman House turns to its own unparalleled collections for a survey of photography from the earliest efforts in the 19th century to the most recent techniques and aesthetics. See: Untold Stor… Organized by George Eastman House | Type: exhibition
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Naked before the Camera
April 4, 2012 to September 9, 2012 – Metropolitan Museum of Art Since the beginning of art and in every medium, depicting the human body has been among the artist's greatest challenges and supreme achievements, as can so easily be seen by Museum visitors walking… Organized by Metropolitan Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
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Memory and the Photographic Image
April 16, 2012 to September 9, 2012 – Bartels Gallery, Floor 1L, Johnson Museum of Art For many photographers, memory plays a large role in the choice of subject and how that subject is interpreted. These images often become the only record of a moment passed, and therefore the one tha… Organized by Johnson Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
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The Radical Camera
April 19, 2012 to September 9, 2012 – Columbus Museum of Art Guided by a belief in the transformative power of photography, the Photo League took to the streets in the 1930s and 1940s to record the effects of poverty, war, racial inequality, and social injusti… Organized by Columbus Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
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What is a Photograph?
April 20, 2012 to August 19, 2012 – Templeman Galleries, New Orleans Museum of Art "What is a Photograph?" describes and includes many of the most common photographic processes (daguerreotypes, salted paper prints, gelatin silver prints, and ink jet prints), but it also includes ob… Organized by New Orleans Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
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I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1938–2010
April 22, 2012 to August 5, 2012 – National Gallery of Art Since the invention of small hand-held cameras and faster films in the late 19th century, photographers have been fascinated with capturing everyday life in the urban environment. An exhibition of so… Organized by National Gallery of Art | Type: exhibition
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The Era of The Photographic Plates
April 25, 2012 to April 28, 2013 – Swiss Camera Museum In 1871, Richard Leach Maddox revolutionised photography when he discovered a way of producing sensitive plates which conserved their light sensitivity durably. This made them much easier to use, fo… Organized by Swiss Camera Museum | Type: exhibition
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Travels with Michael Palin: Photographs by Basil Pao
May 1, 2012 to September 23, 2012 – Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum Michael Palin is your guide as you travel the world in this spectacular exhibition. Experience the beautiful faces and places he found through breathtaking photographs, captured by his friend and tra… Organized by Michael Wong | Type: exhibition
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The Queen Art and Image
May 17, 2012 to October 21, 2012 – National Portrait Gallery To mark Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 this landmark exhibition brings together over sixty of the most remarkable and resonant portraits of the Queen made during her sixty-year reign. Featuri… Organized by National Portrait Gallery | Type: exhibition
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President in Petticoats! Civil War Propaganda in Photographs
May 18, 2012 to September 2, 2012 – International Center of Photography As the American Civil War ground to a dispiriting and unheroic end after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's rebel forces and the shocking assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in mid-April… Organized by International Center of Photography | Type: exhibition
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A Short History of Photography: From the ICP Collection
May 18, 2012 to September 2, 2012 – International Center of Photography In honor of its retiring Ehrenkranz Director Willis Hartshorn, the International Center of Photography presents an engaging survey of its vast and unique collection of photographs. Founded in 1975, a… Organized by International Center of Photography | Type: exhibition
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The Post Office In Pictures
May 19, 2012 to August 31, 2012 – Lumen Church The Post Office in Pictures is an exhibition showcasing iconic photographic images sourced from The Royal Mail Archive. In 1933 Sir Stephen Tallents was appointed Public Relations Officer to the Gene… Organized by The Royal Mail Archive | Type: exhibition
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HEINRICH KUEHN AND HIS AMERICAN CIRCLE: ALFRED STIEGLITZ AND EDWARD STEICHEN
May 19, 2012 to August 27, 2012 – Neue Galerie New York Museum for German and Austrian Art The Neue Galerie New York will present “Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle: Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen,” an exhibition focusing on the luminous work of this important Austrian photograp… Organized by Neue Galerie New York Museum for German and Austrian Art | Type: exhibition
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The Lives of Great Photographers
May 26, 2012 to August 25, 2012 – The Dick From photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron and Eadweard Muybridge to Dorothea Lange, Tony Ray-Jones and Weegee, this exhibition highlights some of the most famous images eve… Organized by The Dick and NMeM | Type: exhibition
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Photographing The Alberta And Montana Frontier, 1870 – 1930
May 31, 2012 to August 19, 2012 – Musee Heritage In spite of extreme challenges, early photographers were able to create both beautiful and informative images. Government, military, scientific and commercial photographers recorded historical detai… Organized by Musee Heritage | Type: exhibition
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Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration
June 1, 2012 to September 3, 2012 – Royal BC Museum Celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee at the Royal BC Museum. This special exhibition of nearly 100 portraits by royal photographer, Cecil Beaton (1904-80) depicts Elizabeth in her roles as princess,… Organized by Michael Wong | Type: exhibition
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Photography from the Museum Collection
June 8, 2012 to August 12, 2012 – Thomas H. Bayly Building, University of Virginia Art Museum These focused exhibitions will engage key moments in the history of photography, explore the development of the medium, and highlight important pieces from UVaM's rich collection of photographs.Photo… Organized by University of Virginia Art Museum | Type: exhibition
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Hans Steiner: A Photographer in the Century
June 29, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Musée gruérien Hans Steiner (1907–1968) as a photographer is very representative of the golden age of Swiss photography. During this time, from the 1930s to the 1950s, there emerged a generation of photographers wh… Organized by MUSÉE GRUÉRIEN | Type: exhibition
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Selling Dreams: 100 Years of Fashion Photography
July 7, 2012 to September 2, 2012 – Royal Albert Memorial Museum This exhibition explores the range of approaches to fashion image-making from the 1911 to today, it comprises sixty photographs, including many rarely exhibited and recently acquired works by twenty… Organized by Royal Albert Memorial Museum | Type: exhibition
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Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs of Children
July 9, 2012 to January 4, 2013 – Dimbola Museum & Galleries An exhibition of 20 portraits of children by Julia Margaret Cameron from the V&A’s collection, which were on show earlier this year at the V&A Museum of Childhood. Cameron made over 200 photo… Organized by The Julia Margaret Cameron Trust | Type: exhibition
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Contemporary Japanese Photobooks
July 13, 2012 to September 9, 2012 – The Photographers' Gallery Photographs flourish on the printed page in Japan like nowhere else. This exhibition transforms the Wolfson Gallery into a reading room featuring over 200 Japanese photobooks that are virtually impo… Organized by The Photographers' Gallery | Type: exhibition
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By Way of These Eyes: Masterworks of American Photography
July 14, 2012 to October 28, 2012 – American Museum Photographs from the renowned Christopher Hyland Collection, which juxtaposes iconic Stateside images from the early 1900s with vibrant photographs of 21st century America. Among the artists represen… Organized by American Museum | Type: exhibition
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Daniel Meadows: Early Photographic Works
July 14, 2012 to September 8, 2012 – Ffotogallery In the early 1970s Daniel Meadows embarked on a journey to create a social snapshot of Britain, breaking with photography tradition and infusing the medium with new energies and ways of seeing. Mead… Organized by Ffotogallery | Type: exhibition
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David Bailey’s East End
July 16, 2012 to August 5, 2012 – Compressor House The exhibition focuses on three periods: the 1960s, the ’80s and recent years. 1960s This section features images shot for a Sunday Times Magazine article on the Krays that could never be published.… Organized by CREATE | Type: exhibition
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The Colonial Eye: Early Portrait Photography in India
July 20, 2012 to October 21, 2012 – Museum für Fotografie (Museum of Photography) The Museum für Fotografie is exhibiting a collection of around 280 portraits taken in India and Sri Lanka during the second half of the 19th century, at the height of Britain’s imperial might. The co… Organized by Museum für Fotografie | Type: exhibition
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Back to Black . . . and White
July 25, 2012 to September 1, 2012 – Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre Young people exploring 70 years of Swindon through photographs and digital art. Over 100 young people have had the opportunity to work alongside Create Studios' digital artist, Dani Landau to create… Organized by Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre | Type: exhibition
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Rarely Seen Photographs – A Journey through the Photographic Treasures of Hungarian Museums
July 25, 2012 to September 16, 2012 – Hungarian House of Photography Arriving from Debrecen, Szigetbecse, Pécs, Székesfehérvár, Nyírbátor, Kecskemét, Szeged and Nyíregyháza, the 200 or so items covering 130 years from 1864 have a variety of authors, some unnamed, some… Organized by Hungarian House of Photography | Type: exhibition
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Another London
July 27, 2012 to September 16, 2012 – Tate Britain Tate Britain will hold an exhibition of 180 classic twentieth-century photographs which take London as their key subject. In the years between 1930 and 1980, some of the best-known photographers from… Organized by Tate Britain | Type: exhibition
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Olympic Celebration: Athletes in Motion
July 28, 2012 to October 20, 2012 – Kingston Museum The human body in motion is timeless, but the ways trying to depict this have changed and evolved over time. Coinciding with the 2012 London Olympics, this exhibition brings together old and new tech… Organized by Kingston Museum | Type: exhibition
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