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Tuesday, September 27, 2011

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
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
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
The Century of the Film

May 26, 2011 to April 30, 2012 – Swiss Camera Museum When films on a flexible support appeared on the market in the 1880s, the whole world of photography was radically transformed. Cameras underwent a complete metamorphosis, rapidly becoming smaller a… Organized by Swiss Camera Museum | Type: exhibition
Recording the New: The architectural photography of Bedford Lemere & Co. 1870-1930

June 4, 2011 to October 30, 2011 – Architecture, Room 128a, The Victoria and Albert Museum Bedford Lemere & Co. was the leading architectural photography company of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In business from the 1870s until the 1940s Bedford Lemere and his son Harry Bedfo… Organized by The Victoria and Albert Museum | Type: exhibition
Scott’s Last Expedition

June 17, 2011 to October 16, 2011 – Australian National Maritime Museum When Captain Robert Falcon Scott set off on his second voyage to explore Antarctica - the British Antarctic Expedition 1910 - he could not have predicted it would be his last. He died on the return j… Organized by Australian National Maritime Museum | Type: exhibition
Arctic Bound: An exhibition of photographs by Alexander Rodger & David Dickson, 1894-7

June 17, 2011 at 9am to September 30, 2011 at 4:45pm – St Andrews University, School of Art History In the 1890s two young naturalists were sent on expeditions to the Arctic to collect specimens for the Zoology Museum of Professor D'Arcy Thompson at University College, Dundee. They also took photog… Organized by University of Dundee Museum Service | Type: exhibition
Anna Fox. RESORT. Pallant House Exhibition

June 24, 2011 at 6pm to October 2, 2011 at 6pm – Pallant House Gallery Works from Anna Fox's newest series RESORT are being showcased this summer at Pallant House Gallery from the 24 June to 2 October. RESORT is the culmination of a two year commission by holiday camp… Organized by | Type: exhibition
Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century

June 30, 2011 to October 2, 2011 – Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi each left Hungary to make their names in Germany, France and the USA, and are now known for the profound changes they broug… Organized by Royal Academy of Arts | Type: exhibition
Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century

June 30, 2011 to October 2, 2011 – Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts Brassaï, Robert Capa, André Kertész, László Moholy-Nagy and Martin Munkácsi each left Hungary to make their names in Germany, France and the USA, and are now known for the profound changes they broug… Organized by Royal Academy of Arts | Type: exhibition
England at Work, English Heritage

June 30, 2011 to November 11, 2011 – Bradford Industrial Museum A photographic exhibition from the archives of English Heritage. From Victorian times to the recent past these images offer a glimpse into the everyday lives of people at work. A wide variety of occu… Organized by Bradford Industrial Museum | Type: exhibition
Picture This! One Hundred Years of Photography

July 2, 2011 to December 31, 2011 – National Archives at Kansas City Picture This! chronicles major events of the twentieth century -- immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, the Wright Brothers' first flight, construction of the Empire State Building, Depression-era sou… Organized by National Archives at Kansas City | Type: exhibition
Likenesses in the Latest Style: Historical Portrait Photography

July 9, 2011 to October 30, 2011 – THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM Likenesses in the Latest Style explores the formative era of portrait photography through an assemblage of dozens of stunning original images. Emerging in the mid-nineteenth century simultaneously wi… Organized by THE COLUMBUS MUSEUM | Type: exhibition
The Dark Room: Highlights from the history of photography

July 17, 2011 to December 29, 2011 – 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
People Apart: Cape Town Survey 1952 Photographs by Bryan Heseltine

July 19, 2011 to January 8, 2012 – PITT RIVERS MUSEUM For the first time in 50 years an extraordinary collection of photographs offers a glimpse into the lives of South Africans who would feel the full force of the apartheid state through the 1950s and… Organized by PITT RIVERS MUSEUM | Type: exhibition
Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection

July 20, 2011 to October 9, 2011 – Irish Museum of Modern Art This exhibition is drawn from a collection of more than 450 photographs brought together by the Irish born American collector David Kronn. The collection ranges in content from 19th century Daguerreo… Organized by Irish Museum of Modern Art | Type: exhibition
Stanley: An Estes Park Legacy

August 5, 2011 to February 19, 2012 – The Estes Park Museum In collaboration with the Stanley Museum, the Estes Park Museum will display an exhibit celebrating the achievements of Freelan Oscar Stanley. Francis and his twin brother Freelan formed the Stanle… Organized by Stanley Museum/Estes Park Museum | Type: exhibition
Mass Photography: Blackpool through the camera

August 6, 2011 to November 5, 2011 – Grundy Art Gallery Over the last century many of the most prominent European photographers have photographed Blackpool, including Ian Berry, Alfred Gregory, Peter Marlow, Martin Parr, Tony Ray-Jones, Humphrey Spender,… Organized by Grundy Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Signs of a Struggle: Photography in the Wake of Postmodernism

August 17, 2011 to November 27, 2011 – Gallery 38A, Victoria and Albert Museum This display explores photographs that make reference to themselves, other media and texts, and demonstrates how such Postmodernist approaches to photography have persisted for over 30 years. Spanni… Organized by Victoria and Albert Museum | Type: exhibition
The Bunnell Decades

August 19, 2011 to October 23, 2011 – Princeton University Art Museum The exhibition celebrates the work of Peter C. Bunnell, Princeton's first professor of the history of photography. From 1972 to 2002, Bunnell mentored a generation of scholar-curators while building… Organized by Princeton University Art Museum | Type: exhibition
The Darkroom: Extraordinary stories from the history o f Dutch photography

August 19, 2011 to December 29, 2013 – Las Palmas Building, Nederlands Fotomuseum 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
Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today

August 25, 2011 to April 29, 2012 – Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today traces the history of Canada’s changing industrial landscape through the lens of some of the country’s most extraordinary photograp… Organized by Art Gallery of Ontario | Type: exhibition
Controversies - A Legal and Ethical History of Photography

September 7, 2011 to November 13, 2011 – Galerie Rudolfinum After Paris, Brussels, Vienna, Luxemburg and Florence the exhibition is presented at the the Rudolfinum Gallery in Prague. Since its invention in 1839, photography has provoked numerous controversies… Organized by Galerie Rudolfinum/Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague | Type: galerie, rudolfinum
Early Photographers of Southern California

September 10, 2011 to October 30, 2011 – Temecula Valley Museum About 12 photographers are represented in the exhibit, mostly from San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Bernardino counties, since those areas were the most active. One such photographer was F.G. Schumach… Organized by Temecula Valley Museum | Type: exhibition
Leopold Hugo: La Jolla as Muse in Pictorialist Photography

September 10, 2011 at 6pm to October 20, 2011 at 7pm – La Jolla Historical Society The exhibition examines Hugo’s (1872-1933) place in the history of photography and the role La Jolla played as his inspiration. Visitors will also learn Hugo’s personal story, rescuing an important e… Organized by La Jolla Historical Society | Type: exhibition
Mois de la Photo in Montréal / Montreal's Month of Photography

September 12, 2011 to October 9, 2011 – Montréal, Québec (L'Arsenal) Montreal's biannual photo festival started this weekend. From Thursday night to Saturday each public or private space hosting one of the 24 shows (photographs and videos) organized openings for their… Organized by Mois de la Photo | Type: festival
Small Lives - Photographs of Irish Childhood 1880 - 1970

September 12, 2011 to June 28, 2012 – National Photographic Archive The 50 photographs in this exhibition are drawn from across NLI’s collections, and range from formal studio portraits featuring children of the landed classes taken in the 1880s to more candid shot… Organized by National Photographic Archive | Type: exhibition
So Long Roger Fenton

September 12, 2011 to October 8, 2011 – Monster Truck Gallery Not quite photography as such, but this is an exhibition of contemporary artwork and archival material that unravels the legacy of ‘embeddedness’ as a working method, exploring its consequences acros… Organized by Monster Truck Gallery | Type: exhibition
Beauty, Morals and Voluptuousness in the England of Oscar Wilde

September 13, 2011 to January 15, 2012 – Musée d'Orsay This exhibition explores the British "aesthetic movement" that, in the second half of the 19th century, set out to move away from the ugliness and materialism of the time, by proposing a new idealis… Organized by Musée d'Orsay | Type: exhibition
Terry O’Neill: 50 Years At The Top

September 15, 2011 to October 15, 2011 – Leeds Gallery‎ It was 50 years ago that Terry O’Neill first picked up a camera and began an astonishing career. First becoming a key photographer in London’s heady 1960s cultural milieu, he went on to capture most… Organized by Leeds Gallery/Chris Beetles Limited | Type: exhibition
Burke + Norfolk: Photographs From the War in Afghanistan

September 16, 2011 to November 12, 2011 – Gallery Luisotti “Burke + Norfolk: Photographs From the War in Afghanistan” is a fascinating conversation across time between 19th-century Irish photographer John Burke and contemporary British artist Simon Norfolk.… Organized by Gallery Luisotti | Type: exhibition
Degas Dancers: Eye and Camera

September 17, 2011 to November 11, 2011 – Royal Academy of Arts Degas Dancers: Eye and Camera will bring together 75 works comprising paintings, photography, pastel drawings and sculpture. It will hail him as an artist ahead of his time, whose work incorporated a… Organized by Royal Academy of Arts | Type: exhibition
Wide-Eyed: Panoramic Photographs (1857-present)

September 17, 2011 to January 29, 2012 – Harrison Photography Gallery (365), Minneapolis Institute of Arts Shortly after the invention of photography, in 1839, its practitioners embraced the panoramic format, first making multiple-part pictures and, later on, individual images created with a succession of… Organized by Minneapolis Institute of Arts | Type: exhibition
The Exploring Eye: The Photography of Eric de Mare

September 18, 2011 to October 2, 2011 – RIBA Eric de Maré, 1910 - 2002, was one of Britain's most influential architectural photographers. Enjoy an exhibition, drawing on material from the RIBA'scollections, that explores his work and highlight… Organized by RIBA North West | Type: exhibition
Bristol and West: Photographs by Martin Parr

September 22, 2011 to November 27, 2011 – M Shed Featuring over 50 images selected from the last thirty years of Martin Parr’s career, Britain’s foremost photographer takes a wry look at life in Bristol and the surrounding area. It will be the larg… Organized by M Shed | Type: exhibition
Eugène Atget: Paris 1890 - 1920

September 24, 2011 to January 8, 2012 – Nederlands Fotomuseum (Las Palmas Building) An overview exhibition of the French photographer Eugène Atget (1857-1927). The image of Paris that his works shows is unique, both in details and in atmosphere, which are romantic and surreal at the… Organized by Nederlands Fotomuseum | Type: exhibition
19th Century French Photographs

September 24, 2011 to January 29, 2012 – Art Gallery of Alberta Drawn from the National Gallery’s extensive collection of nineteenth-century French photographs, the exhibition consists of daguerreotypes, salted paper, albumen silver and photogravure prints made b… Organized by National Gallery of Canada | Type: exhibition
Power/Play: China's Empress Dowager

September 24, 2011 to January 29, 2012 – Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Following China's disastrous Boxer Rebellion, the Grand Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) was held in low regard throughout the world. In 1903, a strategy emerged to use photographic portraiture to re… Organized by Smithsonian Institution of Asian Art | Type: exhibition
What's in a face? Aspects of Portrait Photography

September 24, 2011 to February 5, 2012 – Art Gallery of New South Wales What’s in a face? aspects of portrait photography is an exhibition of more than 45 photographs from the Art Gallery of NSW collection. It focuses on some of the crucial points in the history of photo… Organized by Art Gallery of New South Wales | Type: exhibition
What's in a face? aspects of portrait photography

September 26, 2011 at 6pm to February 5, 2012 at 5pm – Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney http://http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/whats-face/ Organized by Judy Annear | Type: exhibition