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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Portraits of Writers from 1850 to the present day

November 17, 2010 to February 20, 2011 – Maison de Victor Hugo The 200 photographs selected in this exhibition illustrate how original these collections are and how they complement each other not only chronologically but also aesthetically and thematically, brin… Organized by Maison de Victor Hugo | Type: exhibition
Raja Deen Dayal: The Studio Archives from the IGNCA collection

November 19, 2010 to February 28, 2011 – Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts Photography enthusiasts are in for a treat as this exhibition showcases a 19th century photographer’s reflections on India’s heritage. The three-month exhibition peeks into the early 19th century lif… Organized by Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts | Type: exhibition
Life in Pictures

December 1, 2010 to March 31, 2011 – Blagreaves 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 Blagreaves Library | Type: exhibition
19th-Century French Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada

December 2, 2010 to March 20, 2011 – Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion, Level S2 Graphic Arts Centre This exhibition will feature approximately eighty works from 1840 to 1900 by some of the major practitioners of photography in France during that time—Édouard Baldus, Maxime du Camp, J. B. Greene, Gu… Organized by Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | Type: exhibition
Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road

December 7, 2010 to April 3, 2011 – The Getty Center Los Angeles UPDATE: Further information on the exhibition including an interactive slide show can be found here. Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road examines the ways Beato tailored his images of f… Organized by The Getty Center | Type: exhibition
Photos Femmes Féminisme 1860-2000: The Durand Collection

December 19, 2010 to March 13, 2011 – Galerie des Bibliothèques, Ville de Paris The exhibition Photos Femmes Féminisme 1860-2000 is a historical journey through the photographic collection of the Marguerite Durand Library. Towards the end of the 19th century Durand, a former ac… Organized by Galerie des Bibliothèques | Type: exhibition
The Face of America: Early Photographic Portraits from the Collections of George & Susan Whiteley

December 20, 2010 to March 12, 2011 – Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center Exceptional and rare images from the dawn of photography cover the birth and growth of the medium through nearly three decades, 1840–1865. The major technological advances in photographic processe… Organized by Daguerreian Society | Type: exhibition
Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture

December 28, 2010 to May 15, 2011 – Center for Creative Photography An exploration of the photographic portrait - the stories portraits can tell, the ways photographers convey the essence of their subjects and the impact of the relationship between photographer and… Organized by Center for Creative Photography | Type: exhibition
Hoppe’s Bombay 1929 and Santiniketan

January 2, 2011 to February 28, 2011 – Premchand Roychand Gallery Children playing under the Gateway of India monument, the Fort area with no motor vehicles and other such rare street scenes of early 20th century Mumbai captured by a British photographer, are on d… Organized by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India) | Type: exhibition
Exposed: Photography and the Classical Nude

January 4, 2011 to April 17, 2011 – Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney Seventy five percent of the exhibition has travelled from the United States, drawn from the extensive collection of Florida lawyer William K Zewadski and from his subsequent donations to the Tampa… Organized by Nicholson Museum | Type: exhibition
Waldo County Through Eastern's Eye

January 6, 2011 to April 30, 2011 – Allen & Sally Fernald Gallery, University of Maine's Hutchinson Center "Waldo County Through Eastern's Eye," an exhibit of black and white photographs taken 75 to 100 years ago, will be on display in the Allen & Sally Fernald Gallery at the University of Maine's Hut… Organized by Penobscot Marine Museum of Searsport | Type: exhibition
Acquisitions of Twentieth-Century Photography

January 9, 2011 to February 14, 2011 – Philips Wing, Rijksmuseum The Rijksmuseum will display a selection of 20th-century photographic works acquired in recent years with the support of Baker & McKenzie. The sponsorship from the renowned law firm has already a… Organized by Rijksmuseum | Type: exhibition
Analog: The End of Professional Photographic Darkrooms and Music Recording S tudios

January 11, 2011 to March 5, 2011 – Riflemaker The impact of digital technology on print photography and music production is the subject of ANALOG. The exhibition invites us inside the last of London’s photographic darkrooms as well as taking a v… Organized by Riflemaker | Type: exhibition
Turn Back Time – The High Street

January 14, 2011 to February 28, 2011 – Ryde Library If you ever wondered what Union Street in Ryde looked like in the 1900s, or wanted to see an image of Newport High Street being flooded half a century ago, a new display is giving a glimpse into the… Organized by Ryde Library | Type: exhibition
Bath in Camera 1849-1861

January 15, 2011 to February 26, 2011 – Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution Early photographs by the Rev Francis Lockey, printed from the original calotype and wax paper negatives in the BRLSI Collection. Open Mon-Sat, 10am-4pm.Admission Free Launch event - Fri 14th January… Organized by Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution | Type: exhibition
Unconventional Portraits: Photographs by Charles E. Moody

January 15, 2011 to February 26, 2011 – Saco Museum Charles Moody was born to Samuel F. Moody and Mary E. Spencer of Saco in 1859, and spent much of his adulthood working in the bustling varnish industry of Newark, New Jersey. There he became active… Organized by Saco Museum | Type: exhibition
Handmade Photographs by Jesseca Ferguson

January 15, 2011 to June 16, 2011 – Fox Talbot Museum Exhibition At a time when digital photography is king and analogue photography seems to have fallen into the dustbin of history, the Fox Talbot Museum is looking to the past to find the future of photographic… Organized by Fox Talbot Museum Exhibition | Type: exhibition
Bengalis in London's East End

January 16, 2011 to February 13, 2011 – 4th Floor, Idea Store Ansar Ahmed Ullah, the co-author of Bengalis In London’s East End, has helped to put together a new photographic exhibition at the Whitechapel Idea Store. Created along with Mr Ullah’s co-author John… Organized by Mr Ullah’s, John Eversley and Swadhinata Trust | Type: exhibition
Modernist Photography 1910-1950

January 16, 2011 to July 3, 2011 – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston "Modernist Photography 1910–1950" features approximately 40 American modernist photographs representing highlights from the Museum's own collection as well as The Lane Collection. Complementing the w… Organized by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Type: exhibition
A Celebration of Kodachrome

January 18, 2011 to February 10, 2011 – AOP Gallery As mentioned in an earlier BPH blog, the Association of Photographers Gallery (AOP) presents "A Celebration of Kodachrome" from 18 January to 10 February 2011 with a private view on Wednesday 19 Janu… Organized by AOP Gallery | Type: exhibition
As We See Them: Exotic and Erotic Images from Modern Alternative Process Photographers

January 21, 2011 to April 1, 2011 – The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction Organized by guest curators Herbert Ascherman Jr. and Jeannette Palsa, As We See Them presents the work of eleven artists who are using some of the earliest photographic processes to create contempor… Organized by The Kinsey Institute for Research | Type: exhibition
The Marvellous Everyday

January 22, 2011 to March 26, 2011 – Penlee House Gallery and Museum An exhibition of photographs drawn from Penlee House’s extensive collection, looking at some of the quirkier images taken by photographers from the dawn of photography through to the mid-20th century… Organized by Penlee House Gallery and Museum | Type: exhibition
Overexposed: The History of Photography

January 26, 2011 to February 20, 2011 – Chatham-Kent Museum That's Chatham in Canada, and not in the UK! In the not so distant past, the only way to obtain a permanent record of a scene or person was through drawing or painting. That changed quickly in 1839,… Organized by Chatham-Kent Museum | Type: exhibition
The Science Behind the Medals

January 29, 2011 to November 20, 2011 – Weston Park Museum Drawing on the expertise of Sheffield Hallam University’s renowned Centre for Sports Engineering Research, Sports Lab will explore the genetic advantages of top sportsmen and women and the remarkabl… Organized by Sports Lab/Weston Park Museum | Type: exhibition
Raghu Rai's Invocation to India

January 29, 2011 to April 30, 2011 – New Art Exchange New Art Exchange is proud to present Raghu Rai - one of the world's leading photographers in his first solo exhibition in a Public Gallery in the UK. Working in partnership with commercial gallery Ai… Organized by New Art Exchange | Type: exhibition
Koshasin: The Hall Collection of 19th-century Photographs of Japan

January 29, 2011 to April 3, 2011 – Mendel Art Gallery Koshashin showcases a singular collection of early Japanese photography. More than 250 rare photographs from the late 1800s reflect Japan’s transformation as it moved from feudalism into the modern w… Organized by Mendel Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
The Public Collection: Martin Parr

February 2, 2011 to March 27, 2011 – The Public Six large format prints from an exhibition by one of the UK’s leading photographers, Martin Parr, will remain in The Public’s permanent collection, and be displayed for free in the gallery’s glass co… Organized by The Public | Type: exhibition
19th Century British Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada

February 4, 2011 to April 17, 2011 – National Gallery of Canada This exhibition of photographs from the National Gallery of Canada is the third in a series of survey exhibitions that examine iconic works from the Photographs Collection and situate them within a h… Organized by National Gallery of Canada | Type: exhibition
China Through the Lens of John Thomson

February 4, 2011 to June 12, 2011 – Burrell Collection John Thomson, a Scot who was born two years before the invention of the daguerreotype and the birth of photography, is considered a pioneer of photojournalism and one of the most influential photogra… Organized by Burrell Collection | Type: exhibition
Dynasty and the Camera: Portraits from the Ottoman Court

February 6, 2011 to April 24, 2011 – Sadberk Hanim Museum “Dynasty and the Camera: Portraits from the Ottoman Court” consists of a selection from the Ottoman portrait photographs from Ömer M. Koç collection shows the high level of technical and artistic ter… Organized by Sadberk Hanim Museum | Type: exhibition
Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China

February 8, 2011 to May 1, 2011 – JP Getty Museum, Getty Centre The exhibition features more than 100 works, culled primarily from the Getty Research Institute's strong holdings on the early history of photography in China. The works in the exhibition range from… Organized by JP Getty Museum | Type: exhibition
In Focus: The Tree

February 8, 2011 to July 3, 2011 – The Getty Center Ranging from 19th-century works to contemporary pieces, the exhibition includes prints by both recognized and lesser-known artists. Among the photographers whose work is on view are Robert Adams, Eug… Organized by The Getty Center | Type: exhibiition
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection

February 9, 2011 to June 19, 2011 – Torf Gallery, 184, Museum of Fine Arts This exhibition is selected from the wide-ranging art holdings of Bank of America, one of the largest and most comprehensive corporate collections of photography in the world. The collection was si… Organized by Museum of Fine Arts Boston | Type: exhibition
Power and Privilege: Photographs of the Big House in Ireland 1858-1922

February 9, 2011 to May 31, 2011 – The National Library of Ireland Take a rare opportunity to view photographs of life in Ireland’s ‘Big Houses’ during the mid 1800s and early 1900s at Power and Privilege: photographs of the Big House in Ireland 1858-1922, an exhibi… Organized by The National Library of Ireland | Type: exhibition
Through a Foreign Glass: The Art and Science of Photography in Late Qing China

February 9, 2011 from 10:30am to 12pm – UCLA Dr. Frances Terpak is curator of photographs at the Getty Research Institute and coauthor of the award-winning Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen (Getty Publications,… Organized by UCLA Art History Department and Center for Chinese Studies | Type: talk
From Painting to Photograph: James Robinson’s - The Death of Chatterton

February 9, 2011 from 1pm to 2pm – Performance Area, Linen Hall Library James Robinson, who ran a studio in Dublin, made legal history in 1859 when his stereoscopic pair The Death of Chatterton, modelled after the painting of the same name by Henry Wallis, was deemed to… Organized by Linen Hall Library | Type: talk
Wives and Sweethearts

February 9, 2011 at 6pm to July 30, 2011 at 7pm – National Army Museum The exhibition highlights the fascinating and changing roles of soldiers' partners from 19th-century 'Women of the Regiment' who worked as cooks and laundresses to modern Army families, where both p… Organized by National Army Museum | Type: exhibition
Chaplin Photographic Archive: Official Screening

February 9, 2011 from 6pm to 9pm – Capitole Cinema This is to celebrate the arrival of the Chaplin Photographic Archive in Lausanne on February 9th 2011. The Musée de l’Elysée, in partnership with the Cinémathèque suisse, organizes a major public scr… Organized by Musée de l’Elysée | Type: exhibition, and, film, screening