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Wednesday, September 7, 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
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
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
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
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
The Enemy At Home: The story of German internees in World War 1 Australia

May 7, 2011 to September 11, 2011 – Museum of Sydney Newly discovered photographs by internee Paul Dubotzki reveal what it was like to be interned in Australia during World War I. During World War I nearly 7000 so-called ‘enemy aliens’ were interned in… Organized by Museum of Sydney | 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
Jules Beck (1825-1904) - Early High Mountain Photography in Switzerland

June 21, 2011 to September 25, 2011 – Swiss Alpine Museum In this digital age, one cannot but wonder at the achievement of the valiant photographer-mountain climber 140 years ago. Jules Beck – who grew up in Biel, Berne, Vevey and Strasbourg – was the first… Organized by Swiss Alpine Museum | Type: exhibition
New Bedford Through the Lens - A Walk Through History

June 22, 2011 to September 11, 2011 – New Bedford Art Museum New Bedford Through the Lens portrays the history of New Bedford through the lens of a representative sampling of photographers from the 1850s to the late 20th century. The sub-titled A Walk Through… Organized by New Bedford Art Museum | 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 Last Samurai: Jacques-Philippe Potteau’s Photographs of the Japanese Missions to Europe, 1862 and 1864

July 14, 2011 to September 18, 2011 – PITT RIVERS MUSEUM This display presents fourteen mounted albumen prints and two related engravings from the Japanese missions to Europe in 1862 and 1864. The delegations, which were sent by the Tokugawa Shogunate to r… Organized by PITT RIVERS 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
High Altitude: Photography in the Mountains

July 20, 2011 to September 19, 2011 – Rossinière Suisse The village of Rossinière in the foothills of the Swiss Alps is reputed for its 17th- and 18th- century architecture and its verdant setting. During the summer of 2011, HIGH ALTITUDE contrasts this v… Organized by +1000 | Type: exhibition
Photographs of Children: The art of photographing children

July 28, 2011 to September 19, 2011 – Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography This exhibition brings together a carefully selected collection of photographs of children since the advent of film in the 19th century — when camera exposures were long and children had to be held b… Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography | Type: exhibition
A Village Lost and Found

August 3, 2011 to September 25, 2011 – Dimbola Lodge Museum Dimbola Museum and Galleries are delighted to announce a 3D exhibition based around Brian May & Elena Vidal's book A VILLAGE LOST & FOUND. Brian May, renowned guitarist/song-writer of the leg… Organized by The Julia Margaret Cameron Trust | Type: exhibition
Photogenic Drawings

August 4, 2011 to September 18, 2011 – Modern Art Galleries The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Edinburgh International Festival are delighted to announce a major new exhibition of one of the world’s leading artists, the renowned Japanese phot… Organized by The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Edinburgh International Festival | 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