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Wednesday, November 2, 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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
The XXth Century - People-Places-Times

September 29, 2011 to January 1, 2012 – Deutsches Historisches Museum For twenty years the German Historical Museum has been collecting photographs on contemporary history and everyday life. The collection has come together through purchase or endowment of parts of est… Organized by Deutsches Historisches Museum | Type: exhibition
Made in America 1900-1950. Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada

September 30, 2011 to January 2, 2012 – National Gallery of Canada Composed of just over 100 photographs, this exhibition celebrates the exceptional contribution that American photographers made to the history of art in the 20th century. Made from 1900-1950, these p… Organized by National Gallery of Canada | Type: exhibition
Daniel Meadows: Early Photographic Works

September 30, 2011 to February 19, 2012 – Gallery Two, National Media Museum Daniel Meadows was one of a group of photographers who spearheaded the independent photography movement in the early 1970s, breaking with tradition and infusing the medium with new energies and way… Organized by National Media Museum | Type: exhibition
The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection

October 1, 2011 to February 19, 2012 – Brackett Clark Gallery, George Eastman House More than 500 photographs by the masters of the medium will be on view. W.M. Hunt is a renowned curator and dealer who has been collecting photographs for 40 years. A self-described “champion of p… Organized by George Eastman House | Type: exhibition
Julia Margaret Cameron

October 4, 2011 to November 18, 2011 – Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs This exhibition of portraits with more than 20 albumen prints from 1864 to 1874 by 19th century British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron will be hosted by Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs for th… Organized by Hans P. Kraus Jr. Fine Photographs | Type: exhibition
The golden age of Albanian photography 1858-1945: The Marubi dynasty and the rhapsodists of light

October 6, 2011 to January 8, 2012 – Maison Européenne de la Photographie This exhibition presents a century of outstanding and evocative pictures from a European country that has been exposed by the winds of history to eastern influences from the Ottoman empire. It featu… Organized by Maison Européenne de la Photographie | Type: exhibition
Anna Fox. RESORT.

October 11, 2011 at 6pm to November 12, 2011 at 7pm – James Hyman Photography James Hyman Photography is delighted to present a solo exhibition of Anna Fox's newest series, RESORT, commissioned by Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, and supported by Butlins and University for t… Organized by Valérie C. Whitacre | Type: exhibition
Rivers of Ice: Vanishing Glaciers of the Greater Himalaya

October 15, 2011 to November 11, 2011 – Pavilion of the Royal Geographical Society Depicts the work of photographer and mountaineer David Breashears, Executive Director of GlacierWorks. Since 2007, David has led eight expeditions to the region, retracing the steps of the early phot… Organized by Royal Geographical Society | Type: exhibition
The Heart of the Great Alone: Scott, Shackleton & Antarctic Photography

October 21, 2011 to April 15, 2012 – The Queen's Gallery This exhibition of remarkable Antarctic photography by George Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley marks the 100th anniversary of Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the South Pole. Ponting’s dramatic… Organized by The Queen's Gallery | Type: exhibition
The Heart of the Great Alone

October 21, 2011 to April 15, 2012 – Queen`s Gallery, Buckingham Palace This exhibition of remarkable photographs taken in Antarctica by Herbert George Ponting and Frank Hurley marks the 100th anniversary of Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the South Pole. Organized by | Type: viewing, from, the, royal, collection
Swiss Photobooks from 1927 to the Present: A different History of Photography

October 22, 2011 to February 29, 2012 – Fotostiftung Schweiz Once again the time has come to dare to present a broad survey: To mark its 40th anniversary, the Fotostiftung Schweiz will present a new history of photography in both book and exhibition form. It i… Organized by Fotostiftung Schweiz | Type: exhibition
Victorian Photographs and Souvenirs of Llandudno

October 22, 2011 to November 12, 2011 – Llandudno Museum A new exhibition pays tribute to Victorian photographers who put Llandudno on the map with early holidaymakers. The exhibition honours photographers like William Laroche, William Lee, Slaters Photog… Organized by Llandudno and Colwyn Bay History Society | Type: exhibition
University of London Nineteenth Century Seminars: On Photography

October 22, 2011 at 11am to December 10, 2011 at 1pm – Senate House University of London Nineteenth Century Seminars: On Photography Saturdays 11.00am-1.00pm Room G37, Senate House 22 October 2011 Dr Juliet Hacking, Sotheby’s “Untruth to Nature: Landscape Photography… Organized by Patrizia Di Bello | Type: postgraduate, seminar, (free, and, open, to, all)
Baron Humbert de Molard (1800-1874)

October 25, 2011 to December 15, 2011 – Hotel de Malestroit This exhibition will show to the public, for the first time, part of photographic collections of Baron Humbert de Molard (1800-1874) which Gatien-Bonnet museum of Lagny-sur-Marne is bailee. This ex… Organized by Bry-sur-Marne Museum and Lagny-sur-Marne Museum | Type: exhibition
Brummels: Australia's first Gallery of Photograpy

October 25, 2011 to January 22, 2012 – Monash Gallery of Art Brummels was the first Australian art gallery dedicated to exhibiting the work of photographers. Opened in 1972 by photographer Rennie Ellis, above a restaurant in South Yarra, the humble exhibition… Organized by Monash Gallery of Art | Type: exhibition
Hereford Photography Festival

October 28, 2011 to November 26, 2011 – Hereford Hereford Photography Festival, the UK’s longest running photography festival, returns with 40 exhibitions featuring more than 75 artists from across the globe. Now entering its 21st year, this year’s… Organized by Hereford Photography Festival | Type: festival
Hans Steiner - Diary of a Modern Life

October 29, 2011 to January 29, 2012 – Médiathèque Valais Martigny After Lausanne and Winterthour, the exhibition Hans Steiner produced by the Musée de l'Elysée is presented at the Médiathèque Valais Martigny. Hans Steiner (1907–1968) as a photographer is very repre… Organized by Médiathèque Valais Martigny | Type: exhibition
Felice Beato: Photographer in Nineteenth-Century Japan

October 29, 2011 to December 12, 2011 – Museum of Art, University of New Hampshire The exhibition features photographs from the private collection of Tom Burnett, New York City. Guest curator is Eleanor M. Hight, Professor of Art History at the University of New Hampshire. She is t… Organized by Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
Written in Light (1840–1930)

November 1, 2011 to February 15, 2012 – Moderna Museet The third part of Another Story. Photo- graphy from the Moderna Museet Collection has the subtitle Written in Light. It delineates the infancy of photography, from the moment when the Frenchman Louis… Organized by Moderna Museet | Type: exhibition
The Beginning and the End of the World

November 1, 2011 to December 10, 2011 – The Gateway Galleries In the early 1840s St Andrews became the first town in the world to be documented thoroughly through the new medium of photography. At the same time Robert Chambers wrote in St Andrews one of the mos… Organized by University of St Andrews | Type: exhibition