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Sunday, October 17, 2010

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
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
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
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
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
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
Photos: 100 Years of Girlguiding

August 13, 2010 to November 1, 2010 – Christ Church Celebrating 100 years of Girlguiding with a wonderful exhibition of photos from the early 1930s through to the present day. Were you a Brownie or a Guide? Come and relive some of your memories. Free… Organized by | Type: exhibition
The Indian Empire, Multiple Realities: Selections from the Portvale Collection

August 19, 2010 to November 7, 2010 – Asian Gallery, Ground Level, Art Gallery NSW This ambitious exhibition, shaped by a promised gift of works from the Portvale Collection, introduces the competing narratives that emerged following the first European encounters with India. The i… Organized by Art Gallery NSW | Type: exhibition
John Mercer: Lancashire's Curious Chemist

August 23, 2010 to November 22, 2010 – Queen Street Mill Textile Museum John Mercer of Great Harwood is one of Lancashire's unsung heroes. A Victorian man of science, his interests in chemistry and photography, printing and dyeing raised the game for the Lancashire texti… Organized by Queen Street Mill Textile Museum/Royal Society | Type: exhibition
New Woman: Corsets and Cameras: Photography, Bicycling and the New Woman in Turn-of-the-Century America

August 28, 2010 to December 31, 2010 – Henisch Photo-History Collection Exhibit Room, 201A Pattee Library Photographs, postcards, books, periodicals, advertisements and other original documents highlight the advent of the New Woman onto the American scene in the 1890s. Young, active, fashionable, adventu… Organized by | Type: exhibition
American Ferrotypes: Second half of the 19th century

September 4, 2010 to January 9, 2011 – Swiss Camera Museum If you happen to be trekking in Switzerland this autumn, try and pop in to view this exhibition. In 1853 the French photographer Adolphe Martin invented the ferrotype process in which the sensitive… Organized by Swiss Camera Museum | Type: exhibition
Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection

September 7, 2010 to January 2, 2011 – Harry Ransom Center UPDATE: David Coleman, the Ransom Center's Curator of Photography, leads a free gallery tour of Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection, on Thursday September 16th and Tuesd… Organized by Harry Ransom Center and the Gernsheim Collection | Type: exhibition
Eadweard Muybridge

September 8, 2010 to January 16, 2011 – Linbury Galleries, Tate Britain Update: A video review of this travelling exhibition by Corcoran (Washington) chief curator and head of research Philip Brookman can be found here. The pioneering British photographer Eadweard Muybr… Organized by Tate Britain and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington | Type: exhibition
Post-Mortem Photography

September 9, 2010 to November 29, 2010 – Merchant's House Museum In partnership with the Burns Archive, publishers of the award-winning photo book "Sleeping Beauty," the Merchant's House Museum will present an in situ exhibition of 19th-century post-mortem photogr… Organized by Merchant's House Museum | Type: exhibition
Muybridge Revolutions Exhibition

September 10, 2010 at 12:30pm to February 12, 2011 at 5pm – Kingston Museum Opening exactly a century after the first Muybridge exhibition at Kingston Museum, this exhibition focuses on some of the rarest surviving objects within the museum’s collection: Muybridge’s beautifu… Organized by Peta louise Cook | Type: exhibition
In Focus: Still Life

September 14, 2010 to January 23, 2011 – The J Paul Getty Museum The term still life was coined during the 1600s, when painted examples were popular throughout Europe, and artists created increasingly complex compositions, bringing together a broad variety of obje… Organized by The J Paul Getty Museum | Type: exhibition
Bromoils: Eric Mitchell

September 17, 2010 at 6pm to October 31, 2010 at 7pm – Dimbola Lodge The Isle of Wight based photographer Eric Mitchell is fascinated by the old processes of photography and by the Bromoil process in particular. This exhibition shows a small selection of images that… Organized by Dimbola Lodge/Eric Mitchell | Type: exhibition
Muybridge Revolutions

September 18, 2010 to February 12, 2011 – Kingston Museum No shortage of Muybridge exhibitions! Pioneering moving image photographer Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904), left a valuable cultural legacy to his home town of Kingston upon Thames. This outstanding… Organized by Kingston Museum | Type: exhibition
Muybridge in Kingston Exhibitions

September 18, 2010 at 12:30pm to February 12, 2011 at 5pm – Kingston Museum and Kingston University's Stanley Picker Gallery Eadweard Muybridge was one of the world's most innovative and influential photographic pioneers. Undertaking extensive studies of humans and animals in motion, his influential body of work played a c… Organized by Peta louise Cook | Type: exhibition
Alfred Stieglitz New York

September 22, 2010 to January 10, 2011 – Seaport Museum New York Alfred Stieglitz is considered a central figure in the history of photography. This exhibit at New York's Seaport Museum brings together 39 Stieglitz photographs for the first time since he displayed… Organized by Seaport Museum New York | Type: exhibition
The Bernadottes in Black and White

September 22, 2010 to January 23, 2011 – Nationalmuseum To mark the bicentennial of Karl XIV Johan’s selection as heir to the Swedish throne, Nationalmuseum presents an exhibition of black-and-white portraits of the House of Bernadotte. The evolution of… Organized by Nationalmuseum | Type: exhibition
Memory of place: Landscape in "primitive" photography (1840-1870).

September 27, 2010 to November 7, 2010 – Room 17, Musée d'Orsay Throughout the 19th century, reproducing the changing aspects of nature was a challenge for even the most experienced practitioners because of deficiencies in the technology. On the other hand, when… Organized by Musée d'Orsay | Type: exhibition
n Griffin, Face to Face, a retrospective

September 30, 2010 to November 21, 2010 – Snow Hill Station and One Snowhill B4 6GN Birmingham-born photographer, Brian Griffin, is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential British image-makers of recent times. Over the last forty or so years Griffin has enjoyed a career e… Organized by Pete James | Type: exhibition
A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans

October 1, 2010 to February 20, 2011 – Gallery One Evans (British, 1853-1943) began pursuing photography in the mid 1880s, focusing on architecture, specifically medieval cathedrals in England and France. His images of York Minster and Ely Cathedral… Organized by J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles | Type: exhibition
Historic Delhi: Early Explorations of the Camera, c. 1860-1950

October 1, 2010 to November 7, 2010 – National Gallery of Modern Art Photography was introduced in India in the 1840s. There began a gradual setting up of the photographic societies in India henceforth, from 1855 onwards in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. The medium rece… Organized by National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi in collaboration with Alkazi Foundation For The Arts | Type: exhibition
Brighton Photo Biennial 2010

October 2, 2010 to November 14, 2010 – Brighton & Hove Update: You can view Parr presenting the full list of artists and photographers he selected for the Biennial in this video shot at the Photographers' Gallery. For its fourth edition, Brighton Photo… Organized by Brighton Photo Biennial | Type: exhibition
Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at The New York Public Library

October 2, 2010 to January 2, 2011 – Print Gallery & Stokes Gallery, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building Photography at NYPL traces its origins back to the opening of the Astor Library in 1849, a decade after Louis Daguerre announced the first commercially viable photographic process to the world. Photo… Organized by New York Public Library | Type: exhibition
The Central Axis of Beijing 1890-1960: a Photo Exhibition

October 2, 2010 to November 23, 2010 – Gift One The Central Axis of Beijing is as old as the city itself. It was laid out in 1403 and can be traced even further back to the Mongol capital Dadu. This 7.8km-long stretch is therefore as integral to t… Organized by Beijing Postcards | Type: exhibition
The Third Man: A Retrospective of the work of Brian Duffy

October 4, 2010 to November 19, 2010 – Lucy Bell Fine Art Photography Gallery The exhibition includes many "unseen" images, 45% of the exhibition has not been on public exhibition before. Brian Duffy, together with David Bailey and Terence Donovan was one of the innovators of… Organized by Lucy Bell Fine Art Photography Gallery | Type: exhibition
Early Photojournalism 1855 - 1945

October 4, 2010 to December 10, 2010 – L. Parker Stephenson Photographs The history of photography includes many photojournalists. However, those among them whose work exceeds the pure documentation of a moment in history to present an aesthetic vision are limited in num… Organized by L. Parker Stephenson Photographs | Type: exhibition
Classical Methods, Contemporary Vision: Figurative Photography in the Alternative Process

October 7, 2010 to October 31, 2010 – Coburn Gallery at Ashland University The Coburn Gallery at Ashland University will be hosting a photography exhibition titled “Classical Methods, Contemporary Vision: Figurative Photography in the Alternative Process” from Oct. 7 to 31.… Organized by Coburn Gallery | Type: exhibition
East London Photography Festival: photomonth

October 7, 2010 to December 2, 2010 – East London photomonth is a celebration of photography. In 2010 there are over 200 exhibitions and events in East London and beyond. Now into its tenth year, the annual festival of all things lens-based takes o… Organized by photomonth/alternative arts | Type: exhibition/events
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art 1845-1945

October 9, 2010 to January 9, 2011 – The Phillips Collection Like impressionism, which challenged the traditions of painting, pictorialism expanded the possibilities of photography beyond the literal description of a subject. Pictorialist photographers produce… Organized by The Phillips Collection | Type: exhibition
The Art of Photography: From the Beginnings to Now

October 12, 2010 to December 14, 2010 – V&A South Kensington Tuesdays, 12 October–14 December. No half term. 18.30–20.30 Investigate the key innovators and ideas which have shaped the development of photography as a medium for creative expression since 1839.… Organized by V&A Museum | Type: short, course
An Inland Voyage: Life on the Coventry and Oxford canals

October 12, 2010 to October 31, 2010 – Gloucester Waterways Museum (Formerly the National Waterways Museum) Inland Voyage reveals the remarkable photographic archive of Robert Longden. During the late 1940s and early 1950s he documented an intimate history of a working life now long gone. The exhibition,… Organized by Gloucester Waterways Museum | Type: exhibiition
Shadow Catchers

October 13, 2010 to February 20, 2011 – V&A South Kensington Shadow Catchers will present the work of five international artists who, for the last twenty years or more, have been challenging the assumption that a camera is necessary to make a photograph. By c… Organized by Victoria & Albert Museum | Type: exhibition
A History of Camera-less Photography

October 13, 2010 to March 27, 2011 – Room 38a, V&A South Kensington The first photographs ever made were created without the use of camera. This display will explore the camera-less image from its discovery in the 1850s to the present day. Drawing together unique exa… Organized by V&A South Kensington | Type: exhibition
Fond Memories Bring the Light: the Photography of Franz Sebastian Haselbeck

October 13, 2010 to November 7, 2010 – The Hunt Museum at The Customs House A collection of historic images taken in the early 1900s by Franz Sebastian Haselbeck, a photographer of German descent whose ancestors moved to Limerick in the 19th Century, has gone on display for… Organized by The Hunt Museum | Type: exhibition
The Collector's Eye: Vintage Prints from The Sean Sexton Collection

October 14, 2010 to November 21, 2010 – Gallery of Photography Meeting House Square As mentioned in an earlier blog: This fascinating exhibition offers an intriguing glimpse into Sean Sexton’s photography collection – one of the finest and most extensive held in private hands today… Organized by Gallery of Photography | Type: exhibition
Charles Clifford: The Andalusian

October 14, 2010 to November 5, 2010 – Antonio Gala Foundation The Antonio Gala Foundation, Córdoba will be holding a special photographic exhibition of Charles Clifford's Andalucia, organized by the Fundación José Manuel Lara and the Hispanic Society of America… Organized by Fundación José Manuel Lara and the Hispanic Society of America | Type: exhibition
Eadweard Muybridge & Harold Edgerton: Photographing Motion

October 16, 2010 to January 16, 2011 – Reading Public Museum The Reading Public Museum (in the US, and not in Berkshire!) has long held in its collection the remarkable complete photographic portfolio of Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion. Comprised of 781… Organized by Reading Public Museum | Type: exhibition
The British Contribution to Early British Columbia Photography

October 17, 2010 from 2:45pm to 4pm – Newcombe Conference Hall, Royal BC Museum Join David Mattison as he explores the role of photography in promoting immigration and investment in early BC and the subject content of many historical BC photographs. ‘Wild and picturesque, grand… Organized by Friends of the BC Archives | Type: talk