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Thursday, January 26, 2012

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

November 4, 2011 to March 25, 2012 – The Jewish Museum The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of young, politically engaged photographers who explored diverse approaches to social documentary and street photography fr… Organized by The Jewish Museum | Type: exhibition
Alice in Wonderland

November 4, 2011 to January 29, 2012 – Tate Liverpool Lewis Carroll’s timeless novels, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, have fascinated children and adults alike since their publication over 150 years ago. Alice in Wonderl… Organized by Tate Liverpool | Type: exhibition
Queer Self Portraits Now

November 24, 2011 at 6:30pm to January 29, 2012 at 6pm – Fred [London] Queer Self Portraits Now. By Jonathan Kemp. “I am large, I contain multitudes.” - Walt Whitman We might ask: to what extent does the problematization of the notion of ‘self’ problematize the notion… Organized by Fred [London] | Type: exhibition
Romantic Camera

November 30, 2011 to June 3, 2012 – Scottish National Portrait Gallery Romantic Camera is the first exhibition within the new Photography Gallery in the refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery. This space will display a rolling programme of shows and exhibitions… Organized by Scottish National Portrait Gallery | Type: exhibition
John Myers Middle England

November 30, 2011 to February 5, 2012 – Ikon Gallery Ikon Gallery and Birmingham Library and Archive Services presents a major exhibition by John Myers (b. Bradford, UK, 1944), comprising photographs made throughout the early 1970s including Middle E… Organized by Pete James / Joathan Watkins | Type: exhibtion
Forever in a Moment: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of Egypt

December 3, 2011 to April 10, 2012 – Museum of Fine Arts This noteworthy exhibition presents photographs of Egypt created during the nineteenth century, a period of great archaeological exploration and worldwide fascination with the rediscovered ancient cu… Organized by Museum of Fine Arts | Type: exhibition
China Through the Lens of John Thomson: 1868-1872

December 3, 2011 to February 26, 2012 – Chester Beatty Library As mentioned by a BPH blogger, this exhibition is devoted to images of China by Scottish photographer John Thomson (1837-1921). Born in Edinburgh Thomson first travelled to Asia in 1862, where he set… Organized by Chester Beatty Library/Wellcome Trust | Type: exhibition
Street Life

December 6, 2011 to January 29, 2012 – Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Photography as a means of social reform in Europe is seen by national projects and campaigns, effectively functioning as an American social documentary photos showed a different expansion. Leave a re… Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography | Type: exhibition
The Age of the Daguerreotype. Early Russian Photography

December 8, 2011 to February 5, 2012 – Picket Room (196), Winter Palace, State Hermitage Museum The exhibit entitled The Age of Daguerreotype. Early Russian Photography is the first exhibit at the Hermitage to explore such an interesting and ultimately vanished phenomenon as daguerreotype, as w… Organized by State Hermitage Museum | Type: exhibition
Roger Fenton & Julia Margaret Cameron : Early British Photographs from the Royal Collection

December 16, 2011 to April 1, 2012 – Royal Albert Memorial Museum Photographs from the Royal Collection by two of Britain’s most accomplished photographers of the nineteenth century: Roger Fenton (1819-69) and Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79). Some were commissione… Organized by Royal Albert Memorial Museum | Type: exhibition
Masterpieces of Painting, Drawing and Photography from the Musée d’Orsay, Paris

January 3, 2012 to February 5, 2012 – Exhibition Galleries 1 & 2, National Museum of Singapore From the collection of the world renowned Musée d’Orsay, over 140 Salon, Realists, Impressionists and Post-Impressionists paintings, photographs and drawings from the mid-19th century to the early 20… Organized by National Museum of Singapore | Type: exhibition
Dawn’s Early Light: The First Fifty Years of American Photography

January 4, 2012 to May 4, 2012 – Cornell University Library Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections invites you to an exhibition about the first half-century of photography in America, from its invention in Europe in 1839 thro… Organized by Cornell University Library | Type: exhibition
Power and Privilege: Photographs of the Big House in Ireland 1858 to 1922

January 6, 2012 to April 15, 2012 – National Museum of Ireland In the new photographic exhibition, Power and Privilege: Photographs of the Big House in Ireland 1858 to 1922, which is now open in the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Turlough Park, Castl… Organized by National Museum of Ireland/National Library of Ireland | Type: exhibition
Investigating the Archives: Photographic Collections of London

January 7, 2012 to February 4, 2012 – The Photographers' Gallery/Birkbeck College From the collections at the V&A and Royal Anthropological Institute to those at local libraries and in the professional archives of Magnum Photos, London is host to a surprising variety of often… Organized by The Photographers' Gallery with Birkbeck College | Type: course
Brian May: A Village Lost and Found

January 8, 2012 to March 4, 2012 – Royal West of England Academy Brian May, of Queen, and photo-historian, Elena Vidal, have revived a renowned series of 59 photographs produced by a master of Victorian stereoscopic photography, Thomas Richard Williams. Pictures l… Organized by Royal West of England Academy | Type: exhibition
People, Lives and Landscapes, 1898-1934: Images from the Land of the Bible

January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
People, Lives and Landscapes, 1898-1934: mages from the Land of the Bible

January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
A Yemenite Portrait: Photography and Memory 1881- 1948

January 8, 2012 to April 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum In 1882, at the end of the 19th century, the new immigrants from Yemen came to the Palestine and settled in Kfar Hashiloach near Jerusalem. Their number steadily increased, reaching 35,000 in 1948, w… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
People, Lives and Landscapes, 1898-1934: Images from the Land of the Bible

January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
Contemporary photographs

January 9, 2012 at 10am to April 15, 2012 at 8pm – MAC/ USP - (Museum of Contemporary Art - University of Sao Paulo/ Brazil) http://guiadecidades.terra.com.br/pe/arte-e-cultura-fotografia-fotografos-da-cena-contemporanea-esta-no-mac-usp-en-sao-paulo Organized by | Type: the, exhibition, features, works, by:, vik, muniz, cris, bierrenbach, doug, hall, ed, van, der, elsken, and, others.
The All Clear

January 13, 2012 to January 31, 2012 – Watford Museum An exhibition of photography by artist Aaron Whitty will go on show at Watford Museum on Saturday 14th January until the end of the month. You can read more about Aaron's amazing story and photograph… Organized by Watford Museum | Type: exhibition
Photographing Prague Architecture 1848-1921

January 13, 2012 to February 19, 2012 – Old Town Hall Prague is a city known worldwide for its beauty, especially with a mix of various historical layers of architectural development. As many old paintings, engravings and drawings show, Prague has chang… Organized by Pavel Scheufler | Type: exhibition
Scott's Last Expedition

January 20, 2012 to September 2, 2012 – Natural History Museum Scott's Last Expedition reveals powerful stories of human endeavour and struggles for survival, and celebrates the expedition's scientific achievements. Get a real sense of the everyday realities and… Organized by Natural History Museum, London, Antarctic Heritage Trust (New Zealand) and Canterbury Museum, New Zealand | Type: exhibition
Norman Parkinson AN EYE FOR FASHION Vintage Fashion Photographs 1954 -1964

January 20, 2012 at 6pm to April 15, 2012 at 5pm – Mshed Museum Gallery Princes Wharf Bristol BS14RN UK Preview Party Friday 20th January 6-9pm Please contact Angela Williams for an invite if you would like to come angelawilliamsbathuk@btinternet.com Organized by Angela Williams Archive AWA | Type: norman, parkinson, vintage, photographs
The Dutch photo book

January 21, 2012 to April 29, 2012 – Nederlands Fotomuseum First overview of the development of the Dutch photo book since 1945 and its significance for the Dutch photography. With highlights from the past 65 years, including many important Dutch photographe… Organized by Nederlands Fotomuseum | Type: exhibition
Through the Lens

January 21, 2012 at 10:30am to March 17, 2012 at 4pm – Penlee House Gallery & Museum On show at Penlee House Gallery and Museum in Penzance is an exhibition of long-lost photographs of the town and the surrounding district taken from a Magic Lantern slide show put together by an unkn… Organized by jeremy rice | Type: exhibition
Shirley Baker Retrospective

January 23, 2012 to March 4, 2012 – Salford Museum & Art Gallery Salford Museum & Art Gallery presents a retrospective of the work of documentary photographer Shirley Baker, made from the 1960s to 2000s. Shirley Baker was born in Salford. She studied Pure Phot… Organized by Salford Museum & Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Britain’s Child Migrants

January 23, 2012 to May 6, 2012 – Museum Victoria From the 1860s through to 1967, more than 100,000 children were sent from Britain to Australia and other Commonwealth countries through child migration schemes, changing the lives of these children d… Organized by Museum Victoria | Type: exhibition