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Thursday, March 31, 2011

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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Masters of Photography

February 12, 2011 to April 2, 2011 – Falmouth Art Gallery, Municipal Buildings This major international photography exhibition features iconic images by Eve Arnold, Jane Bown, Julia Margaret Cameron, Fay Godwin, Linda McCartney, Lee Miller and Man Ray. Showing for the first t… Organized by Falmouth Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Between the States: Photographs of the American Civil War

February 12, 2011 to June 12, 2011 – Brackett–Clark Gallery, George Eastman House The American Civil War divided a country and created a nation. It was the first modern war and the most detrimental for Americans, yielding more American fatalities and greater domestic suffering tha… Organized by George Eastman House | Type: exhibition
Shared Intelligence: American Painting and the Photograph

February 13, 2011 to April 24, 2011 – Columbus Museum of Art Painting and photography have had a long relationship in American art. Since its invention, photography has influenced the way we see the world as much as how paintings have for centuries. Shared I… Organized by Columbus Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
Hans Steiner: Chronique La Vie Moderne

February 16, 2011 to May 15, 2011 – Musée de l'Elysée A major figure in Swiss photography, Hans Steiner was part of the golden age of Swiss photojournalism (1930s and 1940s). The Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, is entirely devoted to photogr… Organized by Musée de l'Elysée | Type: exhibition
As Good as Can Be: Shenandoah County through the Lens of Hugh Morrison Jr.

February 16, 2011 to July 3, 2011 – Museum of the Shenandoah Valley Hugh Morrison Jr. (1871–1950) photographed the people and places of Shenandoah County, Virginia, from the late 1890s through 1950. It was an era of dramatic change in our country, and Hugh Morrison p… Organized by Museum of the Shenandoah Valley | Type: exhibition
Hoppé Portraits: Society, Studio and Street

February 17, 2011 to May 30, 2011 – Wolfson Gallery, National Portrait Gallery E.O. Hoppé (14 April 1878 – 9 December 1972, German-born British) is one of the most important photographers of the first half of the twentieth century. Celebrated during his lifetime, much of Hoppé'… Organized by National Portrait Gallery | Type: exhibition
London Street Photography 1860-2010

February 18, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Museum of London An amazing collection of 'London Street Photography', spanning from 1860 to present day, is on display at The Museum of London. A great insight into street photography as well as the changes that ha… Organized by Museum of London | Type: exhibition
London Street Photography

February 18, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Museum of London This major new exhibition at the Museum of London showcases an extraordinary collection of London street photography with over 200 candid images of everyday life in the street. From sepia-toned scene… Organized by Museum of London | Type: exhibition
Alice in WonderlandFantastic everyday life and everyday fantasy blend in Alice in Wonderland, a major international exhibition of contemporary photographic art in Turku, the European Capital of Cultur

February 19, 2011 at 6pm to December 18, 2011 at 7pm – Logomo Fantastic everyday life and everyday fantasy blend in Alice in Wonderland, a major international exhibition of contemporary photographic art in Turku, the European Capital of Culture 2011, designed a… Organized by Elina Heikka | Type: exhibition
Eye Wonder: Photography from the Bank of America Collection

February 24, 2011 to May 22, 2011 – National Museum of Women in the Arts By selecting offbeat subjects, shooting intense close-ups, or manipulating focus and color, the artists featured in Eye Wonder have created dreamy and often haunting photographic images. As part of t… Organized by National Museum of Women in the Arts | Type: exhibition
Marcus Adams: Royal Photographer

February 25, 2011 to May 2, 2011 – The Queen’s Gallery Marcus Adams (1875-1959) photographed four generations of the Royal Family between 1926 and 1956. The son of the photographer Walton Adams, he established a reputation as a leading child photographe… Organized by The Royal Collection | Type: exhibition
HELIOS Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change

February 26, 2011 to June 7, 2011 – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Similar to the Tate Britain exhibition which ended on 16/1/11. Best known for his revolutionary studies of human and animal locomotion, Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was also an accomplished landsc… Organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Type: exhibition
Picturing Modernity

February 26, 2011 to June 7, 2011 – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Organized in conjunction with Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, this installation of the SFMOMA collection and Sack Photographic Trust examines the American West through the lens of 19… Organized by San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | Type: exhibition
Changing Tides: The New Bedford Waterfront in Transition (1870-1980)

February 26, 2011 to June 19, 2011 – New Bedford Whaling Museum Once as America's richest whaling port, to its current status as the nation's #1 commercial fishing port, the New Bedford waterfront and the work that goes on there have seen enormous transformation.… Organized by New Bedford Whaling Museum | Type: exhibition
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture 1839 to Toda

March 1, 2011 to May 15, 2011 – Museum Kunsthaus Zürich 'The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture 1839 to Today' offers a critical assessment of the aesthetic and theoretical intersections of photography and sculpture, with special attention paid to ho… Organized by Museum Kunsthaus Zürich | Type: exhibition
In Search of Biblical Lands: From Jerusalem to Jordan in 19th-Century Photography

March 2, 2011 to September 12, 2011 – Getty Villa This exhibition f eatures rare, early daguerreotypes, salted-paper prints, and albumen silver prints, created between the 1840s and 1900s by the leading photographers of the time, including Felice Be… Organized by Getty Museum | Type: exhibition
The Life and Times of Murray Dowding

March 2, 2011 to April 15, 2011 – Yate and District Heritage Centre The exhibition charts the history of the renowned Sodbury photographer, antiquarian and civic figure Murray Dowding. Dowding bequeathed an immense collection of images from the earlier part of the 20… Organized by Yate and District Heritage Centre | Type: exhibition
Drawing with Light: Paper Negatives, 1842-1864

March 3, 2011 to April 2, 2011 – Paul Kasmin Gallery- W. 27th St Paul Kasmin Gallery, in cooperation with Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Fine Photographs, is pleased to announce Drawing with Light: Paper Negatives, 1842-1864. Including works by pioneering photographers Willi… Organized by Paul Kasmin Gallery | Type: exhibition
'Right Here, Right Now' Exposures from the public realm: International Photography Festival

March 4, 2011 to April 3, 2011 – Derby Established in 2004 in Derby UK, FORMAT is one of the UK'sleading international contemporary festivals of photography and related media. Thisyear's programme is curated around the theme of street p… Organized by Format Festival | Type: festival
Celebrating 125 years of Warrington Photographic Society

March 4, 2011 to April 11, 2011 – The Gallery at Bank Quay House In this exhibition we show a selection of pictures made by our members over the last 125 years In 1886, some 47 years after Louis Dagerre and William Fox Talbot invented the first photographic proces… Organized by The Gallery at Bank Quay House | Type: exhibition
"Where I was born…" : A Photograph, a Clue, and the Discovery of Abel Boulineau

March 5, 2011 to August 21, 2011 – Art Gallery of Ontario This exhibition features for the first time the work of a completely unknown French photographer and his photographs of French regional life at the turn of the 20th century. The group of 1,702 gelati… Organized by Art Gallery of Ontario | Type: exhibition
Pre-Raphaelite Photography - Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Artistic Photography in Great Britain (1848-1875)

March 8, 2011 to May 29, 2011 – Musée d'Orsay Coming a bit closer to home, I guess ! From the Washington show this autumn, as featured here, this exhibition will be heading to Paris in March 2011. So, a short hop on the Eurostar if you are keen… Organized by National Gallery of Art in association with the Musée d'Orsay, Paris | Type: exhibition
A Ballad of Love and Death: Pre-Raphaelite Photography in Great Britain, 1848-1875

March 8, 2011 to May 29, 2011 – Rooms 68 and 69, Musée d'Orsay In the second half of the 19th century, during the heyday of Victorian England, the aesthetic principles of the Pre-Raphaelite painters were frequently echoed by the photographers of the time who asp… Organized by National Gallery of Art, Washington and Musée d'Orsay | Type: exhibition
Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer

March 10, 2011 to June 19, 2011 – Porter Gallery, National Portrait Gallery Ida Kar was the first photographer to have a retrospective exhibition in a major London Gallery. In the 1950s she stood at the heart of the creative avant-garde and the exhibition includes portraits… Organized by National Portrait Gallery | Type: exhibition
Exposure 2011: Jim Cooke, Anna Fox, Stuart Griffiths, Clarita Lulic, Regine Petersen & Vanessa Winship

March 10, 2011 at 10am to April 23, 2011 at 2pm – James Hyman Photography James Hyman Photography is pleased to present an exhibition of recent works by the six award winners of the 2010 National Media Museum Photography Awards.Selected from more than 200 applicants, these… Organized by Valérie C. Whitacre | Type: exhibition, and, british, photography
Photography & place: Australian landscape photography 1970s until now

March 16, 2011 at 10am to May 29, 2011 at 5pm – Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/photography-place/ Organized by Judy Annear | Type: exhibition
Photography & place: Australian landscape photography 1970s until now

March 20, 2011 at 6pm to May 29, 2011 at 5pm – Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/photography-place/ [caption] Anne Ferran, from the series Lost to worlds 2008 digital print on aluminium 120 x 120cm. Collection Tasmanian Museum &… Organized by Judy Annear | Type: exhibition, and, related, symposium, april, 9
EYE CONTACT: A potpourri of portraiture from the permanent collection

March 22, 2011 to August 6, 2011 – UCR/California Museum of Photography Not every subject in these portraits is looking directly at the photographer, but all are aware that the camera is looking at them. In that sense, all are formal portraits, as opposed to candid ones… Organized by UCR/California Museum of Photography | Type: exhibition
Artifical Colouring: Painting in Photography

March 22, 2011 to May 21, 2011 – UCR/California Museum of Photography In announcing the invention of the daguerreotype to the French Academy of Sciences in 1839, Daguerre and his colleague Arago were quick to point out what they perceived as the photograph's main flaw:… Organized by UCR/California Museum of Photography | Type: exhibition
Elements of Genius: The Legacy of Chemistry in St Andrews

March 22, 2011 to May 21, 2011 – Gateway Galleries, University of St Andrews Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the teaching of chemistry in St Andrews, and the International Year of Chemistry, Elements of Genius will showcase some of the most illustrious and distinguis… Organized by University of St Andrews | Type: exhibition
Controversies: A legal and ethical history of photography

March 24, 2011 to June 5, 2011 – MNAF Alinari National Museum of Photography Since its invention in 1839, photography has provoked numerous controversies and sensational trials. The photographic image has been at the centre of important ethical debates and legal questions thr… Organized by MNAF Alinari National Museum of Photography | Type: exhibition
History Drawn with Light: Early Photographs from the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society

March 25, 2011 to June 3, 2011 – Massachusetts Historical Society In 1840, almost a soon as photography arrived in America, the MHS began to collect images of notable figures, artifacts, and landscapes recorded with "the pencil of nature." Examples of these early p… Organized by Massachusetts Historical Society | Type: exhibition
Indian Summer

March 25, 2011 to April 2, 2011 – Horsham Museum and Art Gallery, Causeway House In the 1870s Horsham resident Robert Henderson travelled abroad on business and he also collected tourist photographs that capture a lost world. This display showcases a further selection of images f… Organized by Horsham Museum and Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Gerry Badger photographs London/New York

March 28, 2011 to April 10, 2011 – Art Jericho Gerry Badger, a leading photography critic/ writer/curator, brings his own work to Art Jericho. Colour images by a photographer whose understanding of contemporary practice has been both influential… Organized by Art Jericho | Type: exhibition
Portraits of China (1875-1945) Photographs of British Collections

March 29, 2011 to April 30, 2011 – Navarre Public University The exhibition is organized by the Red Chinese Studies Navarra (RNECh) with the collaboration of the University of Bristol, and includes 50 photographs that cover the political and economic transform… Organized by Red Navarra de Estudios Chinos (Navarre Network of Chinese Studies), Universidad Pública de Navarra (Navarre Public University), University of Bristol, University of Lincoln and the East Asia Institute of Lyon | Type: exhibition
Icons of photography – Treasures from the Karin and Lars Hall collection

March 31, 2011 to August 15, 2011 – Statoil Office It is a great pleasure and honour for us to present such a unique collection of artists that have shaped the development of photography as an art form, says Jens R Jenssen, senior vice president of h… Organized by Karin Hall, Lars Hall and Arnt N Fredheim, Statoil art programm | Type: exhibition