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Wednesday, August 11, 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
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
Another Time, Another Place: Aspects of 19th Century Photography

July 24, 2010 to August 20, 2010 – Alan Klotz Gallery A large collection of 19th Century prints can be viewed in this exhibition covering a very wide range of subject matter from a long list of photographers, including: W.H. Talbot, Roger Fenton, Adolph… Organized by Alan Klotz Gallery | 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
Visions of an Industrial Age

July 28, 2010 to September 5, 2010 – Harris Museum and Art Gallery Visions of an Industrial Age features a unique series of images of Preston captured on camera in the 1850s, taken only 70 years after the first cotton mill was built. The exhibition offers visitors… Organized by Harris Museum and 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
1835: The Dawn of Photography Talbot’s Experiments at Lacock

August 9, 2010 to August 13, 2010 – Lacock Abbey A five day workshop at Lacock Abbey, the birthplace of positive/negative photography. Led by Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman and hosted by Roger Watson, Curator of the Fox Talbot Museum. The… Organized by Mark Osterman & France Scully Osterman, and hosted by Roger Watson | Type: workshop
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