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Friday, July 23, 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
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
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
"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
The Photography of Lewis Carroll

July 10, 2010 to September 18, 2010 – Guildford House Gallery As part of Guildford Borough Council's 'Curiouser and Curiouser' exhibition. World-famous for his children's stories (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass), Lewis Carroll was… Organized by Guildford Borough Council's Heritage Service | 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
Photography Not Art: PH Emerson (1886-1895)

July 17, 2010 to August 29, 2010 – Musée d'Orsay In 1895, only ten years after abandoning medicine to take up photography, Peter Henry Emerson published Marsh Leaves, his last illustrated book. Today it is difficult to imagine the feelings these la… Organized by Musée d'Orsay | Type: exhibition