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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
Through the Colonial Lens: Photographs of 19th and 20th Century India

April 1, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Pacific Asia Museum This exhibition will feature more than 70 images in 2 rotations selected for both their striking imagery and for what they reveal about the dynamism of India in this era. Through the Colonial Lens lo… Organized by Pacific Asia Museum | Type: exhibition
Kashmir in 19th Century Photography

April 4, 2011 to October 2, 2011 – Museum für Asiatische Kunst - (Museum of Asian Art) This veritable Shangri-La at the foot of the Himalayas, with its favourable climate and picturesque landscape, has captivated people on their travels around India ever since the Great Moguls made the… Organized by Museum für Asiatische Kunst - (Museum of Asian Art) | Type: exhibition
Chester through a Lens: The Photography of Thomas Pickthall

April 4, 2011 to June 30, 2011 – Chester History and Heritage This display explores the work of a very talented photographer. Thomas Pickthall whose photographs captured Chester during the 1930s and a little after. Thomas was a local man who started taking pict… Organized by Chester History and Heritage | Type: exhibition
Walking + Falling: Jim Campbell, Chris Marker and Eadweard Muybridge

April 4, 2011 to September 5, 2011 – Vancouver Art Gallery Walking + Falling presents the work of three notable artists who have utilized new media to explore and represent complex notions of time, movement and memory.Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) was an En… Organized by Vancouver Art Gallery and Bruce Grenville, senior curator | Type: exhibition
A look at Harsh light, without compassion. The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939

April 6, 2011 to August 22, 2011 – Sabatini Building, Floor 3, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía The worker-photography movement is often marginalized in discussions of how photographic modernism evolved over the course of the 20th century. This visit to the exhibition is intended to help recti… Organized by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía | Type: exhibition
PARKINSON PHOTOGRAPHS THE AGE OF INNOCENCE

April 8, 2011 at 10pm to July 3, 2011 at 5pm – Julia Margaret Cameron Trust Dimbola Lodge Museum Exhibition Parkinson Photographs the Age of innocence Dimbola Lodge The Julia Margaret Cameron Museum Isle of Wight UK Vintage Norman Parkinson Photographs from Angela Williams Archive Organized by Angela Williams Archive AWA | Type: exhibition, -, parkinson, photographs, age, of, innocence
Amateurs and Artists: Early photography and Plymouth

April 9, 2011 to July 30, 2011 – Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery Come and see some of the earliest photographs of Plymouth and discover the part played by the three towns of Plymouth, Devonport and Stonehouse in the development of photography. Amateurs and Artists… Organized by Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery/Royal Photographic Society | Type: exhibition
The Last Full Measure: Civil War Photographs from the Liljenquist Family Collection

April 12, 2011 to August 13, 2011 – The Library of Congress This exhibition, drawn from a recent gift from the Liljenquist family, will feature 379 Civil War-era ambrotypes and tintypes of enlisted Union and Confederate soldiers. These exceptional portraits d… Organized by The Library of Congress | Type: exhibition
New York's Civil War Soldiers – Photographs of Dr. R. B. Bontecou, Words of Walt Whitman

April 14, 2011 to August 1, 2011 – Merchant's House Museum Presented in collaboration with The Burns Archive, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War. Photographs of wounded Civil War soldiers from New York regiments, on disp… Organized by Merchant's House Museum | Type: exhibition
“Kez Gı Sirem İstanbul/Seni Seviyorum İstanbul” (“I love you İstanbul”)

April 14, 2011 to May 8, 2011 – Naregyan Gallery, Armenian Church of the Three Alters Curated by Bursa-born Engin Özendes, the exhibition, which will display over 100 images and documents, will show how İstanbul has changed through the eyes of Armenian photographers, based on three di… Organized by Engin Özendes | Type: exhibition
The Lives of Great Photographers

April 15, 2011 to September 4, 2011 – Gallery One, National Media Museum The Lives of Great Photographers is a compelling new exhibition drawn exclusively from the Museum’s extensive and diverse Photography Collection, including works from The Royal Photographic Societ… Organized by National Media Museum | Type: exhibition
American Dreams: 20th-Century Photography from George Eastman House

April 16, 2011 to July 10, 2011 – Bendigo Art Gallery George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film is the world's oldest photography museum and one of the world’s oldest film archives, first opening its doors to the public in Roches… Organized by Bendigo Art Gallery, | Type: exhibition
Faraway Places: Travel photography of the 19th century

April 18, 2011 to September 19, 2011 – Ilott Room, Level 4, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa In the 19th century, enterprising European photographers travelled to distant places such as Egypt, India, China, the American West, and the Pacific. Through the photographs they brought back, for th… Organized by Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa | Type: exhibition
Pictures of the empire in exile

April 19, 2011 to May 29, 2011 – Instituto Moreira Salles – Rio de Janeiro - Brazil Exposition in rio de janeiro - Brazil Organized by Ivete Batista da Silva Almeida | Type: exposition
The photographic object: A permanent invention

April 25, 2011 to June 19, 2011 – Maison Européenne de la photographie Today, the technical possibilities of photography have become extremely diverse. Traditional processes, often little understood even today, are being replaced by digital or hybrid technologies that a… Organized by Maison Européenne de la photographie | Type: exhibition
Night Vision: Photography After Dark

April 26, 2011 to September 18, 2011 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art At the turn of the last century, night photography came into its own as an artistic genre. In the early years of the medium, capturing images under low-light conditions was nearly impossible, but by… Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
a ORIENTE

April 29, 2011 to May 29, 2011 – Museu do Oriente A Oriente Fotografia de Manuel Magalhães O enamoramento pelo Oriente, fonte de todos os exotismos e a que a fotografia soube responder, faz parte do imaginário do mundo ocidental. Mas para os portugu… Organized by Manuel Magalhaes/ MUSEU DO ORIENTE | Type: photographic, exhibition