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Monday, November 8, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Dark Room: Moments of the history in photography

October 20, 2010 to December 31, 2010 – Nederlands Fotomuseum (Las Palmas Building) 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
Life in Pictures

October 22, 2010 to November 30, 2010 – Pear Tree Library A display of early historic photographs and photographic equipment from the Museums’ collection. Please contact the Library direct for opening times/dates, other information etc. Organized by Pear Tree Library | Type: exhibition
A British Life in a Mountain Kingdom: Early Photographs of Sikkim and Bhutan

October 22, 2010 to January 10, 2011 – Rubin Museum of Art A British Life in a Mountain Kingdom: Early Photographs of Sikkim and Bhutan is the first exhibition of photographs by John Claude White, presented in original prints and large-scale reproductions fr… Organized by Rubin Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
For My Best Beloved Sister Mia: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron

October 23, 2010 to January 2, 2011 – Frick Art & Historical Center During her lifetime, Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) was recognized as one of the leading photographers of the Victorian era. From the time she received her first camera as a gift when she was 48… Organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions | Type: exhibition
La Bohème: The Staging of Artists in photography of the 19th and 20th century

October 26, 2010 to January 9, 2011 – Museum Ludwig "Bohemia is the first stage in artistic life; it is the preface to the Academy, the hospital, or the Morgue." They begin in the 1840s with exposures from the dawn of photography: Louis Alphonse de B… Organized by Museum Ludwig | Type: exhibition
Controversies: A legal and ethical history of photography

October 27, 2010 to February 6, 2011 – Centre national de l'audiovisuel Since its invention in 1839, photography is the focus of controversy and sensational trials. The image goes into effect in the heart of the ethical or legal strictly that marked the nineteenth and tw… Organized by Centre national de l'audiovisuel | Type: exhibition
Hereford Photo Festival 2010

October 29, 2010 to November 27, 2010 – Hereford The longest standing festival of photography in England and the only one in a rural location. It presents and promotes documentary-based photography through exhibitions, seminars, workshops and commu… Organized by Hereford Photo Festival | Type: festival
Studies in Motion: The Hauntings of Eadweard Muybridge

October 30, 2010 to November 14, 2010 – Shoctor Theatre, The Citadel Theatre In 1885 Eadweard Muybridge embarked on a mission to catalog animal movement and human gestures, dissecting time. His work revealed a world invisible to the naked eye and foretold the invention of mod… Organized by Electric Company Theatre, Vancouver | Type: performance
The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848–1875

October 31, 2010 to January 30, 2011 – National Gallery of Art As reported in the BPH blog here, details of the exhibition featuring HP Robinson's print has finally been unveiled. In the first survey of British art photography focusing on the 1850s and 1860s, s… Organized by National Gallery of Art in association with the Musée d'Orsay, Paris | Type: exhibition
Mois De La Photo A Paris 2010

November 1, 2010 to November 30, 2010 – Paris Since its creation in 1980, the Month of Photography has helped make Paris one of the world capitals of photography. It takes place every two years in November, and relies on the significant involvem… Organized by Mois De La Photo A Paris 2010 | Type: biennial, event
Picturing the Victorians: British Photographs and Reproductive Prints from the Department of Image Collections

November 1, 2010 to January 28, 2011 – National Gallery of Art East Building, Study Center Presenting twenty-two rare photographs and reproductive prints, this exhibition highlights resources for the study of Victorian art and culture from the department of image collections. By the mid-ni… Organized by National Gallery of Art, Washington | Type: exhibition
Fay Godwin: Land Revisited

November 1, 2010 to March 27, 2011 – National Media Museum - Gallery Two Fay Godwin (1931 - 2005) was one of Britain's greatest landscape photographers. She is best known for her 1985 exhibition and accompanying book, Land - a very personal celebration of the British land… Organized by National Media Museum | Type: exhibition
The Origins of Photography - Calotype photography in France (1843-1860)

November 2, 2010 to January 16, 2011 – National Library of France - Richelieu Library Part of the Paris Photo 2010 exhibition. The term calotype applies to photographic negatives on paper and the resulting prints, a process developed by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) in 1840, a… Organized by National Library of France/Paris Photo 2010 | Type: exhibition
Gods & Monsters: John Deakin’s Portraits of British Artists

November 3, 2010 to January 10, 2011 – Pallant House Gallery (Main Galleries, Rooms 15 and 16) Gods and Monsters pairs iconic portraits of British artists by the legendary (and infamous) Vogue photographer John Deakin (1912-1972) with major paintings by each artist, providing a unique view of… Organized by Pallant House Gallery | Type: exhibition
Alice in Wonderland

November 4, 2010 to January 29, 2011 – Tate Liverpool This new exhibition takes the original manuscript as a starting point for exploring the influence of these iconic stories on modern and contemporary art, proving the themes within them remain relevan… Organized by Tate Liverpool | Type: exhibition
Exhibition: A Village Lost and Found

November 4, 2010 to January 31, 2011 – Gallery on the Green The Gallery on the Green is especially delighted to host “A Village Lost and Found” as their first 3D exhibition. It is an exhibition that will allow visitors to travel back in time to the 1850s thro… Organized by Gallery on the Green | Type: exhibition
Samuel Bourne and Colin Murray: Early Photography from Delhi, Agra and Rajasthan

November 4, 2010 to January 30, 2011 – Dahlem Museum On display are prints from the 1860s and 1870s, originally taken in the 'Golden Triangle' of Delhi, Agra and Jaipur in Rajasthan by Samuel Bourne, the legendary photographer of the Indian subcontinen… Organized by Dahlem Museum | Type: exhibition
The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton & Antarctic Photography

November 8, 2010 to February 20, 2011 – Robert McDougall Gallery, Canterbury Museum Herbert George Ponting’s extraordinary images record Scott’s Terra Nova expedition of 1910– 13 and Frank Hurley’s dramatic icescapes were taken during Ernest Shackleton’s polar expedition on Enduranc… Organized by Canterbury Museum/Royal Collection | Type: exhibition