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Sunday, July 4, 2010

The Moving Image

March 9, 2010 to September 1, 2010 – Hove Museum & Art Gallery See movement and time unfold in a new exhibition at Hove Museum. The Moving Image contrasts how movement is shown in both photography and art. Eadweard Muybridge was a 19th century photographer who… Organized by Hove Museum & Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
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
Husbands & Wives

May 23, 2010 to July 11, 2010 – National Portrait Gallery The National Portrait Gallery will present Husbands & Wives until 11 July 2010. This exhibition presents a glimpse at the private lives of Australian couples and families through rare portrait ph… Organized by National Portrait Gallery | 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
Playing With Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage

June 10, 2010 to September 5, 2010 – Art Gallery of Ontario Let's hope this exhibition reaches the British shores shortly as it appears to be making its way round the world. There has already been a number of interesting comments made of this exhibit on this… Organized by Art Institute of Chicago | Type: exhibition
Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron - Early British Photographs from the Royal Collection

June 12, 2010 to August 21, 2010 – Aberdeen Art Gallery As mentioned earlier by a fellow BPH blogger (Sophie Gordon): The Royal Photography collection contains some 400,000 images from the birth of photography to modern times. This exhibition demonstrat… Organized by Aberdeen Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Preservation & Conservation of Photographic Materials

June 14, 2010 to July 30, 2010 – The Centre for Photographic Conservation This seven week Certificated course will comprise an intensive theory and practical workshop, for conservators and conservation students, aimed at introducing and developing knowledge and skills in t… Organized by The Centre for Photographic Conservation | Type: course, -, fee, payable
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
Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change

June 18, 2010 at 6pm to July 18, 2010 at 7pm – Corcoran Gallery of Art Best known for his groundbreaking studies of animal and human locomotion, 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge was also an innovative landscape artist and pioneer of documentary subjects. Hel… Organized by Corcoran chief curator and head of research Philip Brookman | Type: exhibition
William Henry Fox Talbot: Beyond Photography : Photo Exhibition

June 21, 2010 to July 9, 2010 – Wren Library To accompany the conference, a special exhibition of a selection of Talbot's manuscripts and photographs will be on display at the Wren Library, Trinity College Cambridge, Talbot's former college. A… Organized by The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | Type: exhibition
Alfred Stieglitz: the Lake George years

June 23, 2010 at 6pm to September 5, 2010 at 5pm – Sydney, Australia ‘…much has happened in photography that is sensational, but very little that is comparable with what Stieglitz did. The body of his work, the key set – I think – is the most beautiful photographic do… Organized by Judy Annear | Type: exhibition
An Inland Voyage: Life on the Coventry and Oxford canals

June 26, 2010 to August 30, 2010 – Herbert Art Gallery & Museum Inland Voyage reveals for the first time the remarkable photographic archive of Coventry factory worker, Robert Longden. During the late 1940s and early 1950s he documented an intimate history of a w… Organized by Herbert Art Gallery & Museum | Type: exhibition
A Village Lost and Found

June 26, 2010 at 6pm to July 17, 2010 at 7pm – Wingfield Barns Arts Centre An exhibition based on 3-D stereoscopic photography organised by Brian May, world renowned member of Queen, and photohistorian Elena Vidal. Free Entrance. Join us on an extraordinary journey into th… Organized by Wingfield Barns Arts Centre | Type: exhibition
The Birth of Motion and Colour Photography: Eadweard Muybridge, The Lumière Brothers

July 1, 2010 to July 11, 2010 – Mondrian’s Room As part of the PhotoIreland Festival, there will be an exhibition of rare original photographs from 1887 and 1907-11 by Eadweard Muybridge and The Lumière Brothers. Muybridge’s influence on our visu… Organized by PhotoIreland Festival | Type: exhibition
PhotoIreland Festival 2010

July 1, 2010 to July 11, 2010 – Dublin Ireland's first International Festival of Photography & Visual Culture. The art of photography will be celebrated at more than 30 venues in Dublin next month, with exhibitions of old and new work… Organized by PhotoIreland Festival | Type: festival
"The Pencil of Nature" Exhibition

July 1, 2010 to August 20, 2010 – Julie Saul Gallery Now, don't get too excited as it's not about the first commercial illustrated book of photographs published by Fox Talbot between 1844-1846. But a modern twist to it, which I thought might be worthwh… Organized by Julie Saul Gallery | Type: exhibition