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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

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
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
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
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
The Queen: 60 Photographs for 60 Years

February 4, 2012 to October 28, 2012 – Windsor Castle Sixty photographs of The Queen, including the work of leading press photographers of the past six decades, are brought together for a display at Windsor Castle to celebrate Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubi… Organized by The Boss herself | Type: exhibition
Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography

February 9, 2012 to August 12, 2012 – Trapholt Museum 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 Trapholt Museum/Musée de l’Elysée | Type: exhibition
Island Stories: British photography from 1945 to the present

March 16, 2012 to September 19, 2012 – Room 38a, Victoria & Albert Museum Drawn exclusively from the V&A collections, this display is a selection of around 70 photographs celebrating the variety of photography in the UK since 1945. It captures the diversity of the isla… Organized by Victoria & Albert Museum | Type: exhibition
Untold Stories

March 23, 2012 to September 16, 2012 – Brackett–Clark Gallery, George Eastman House George Eastman House turns to its own unparalleled collections for a survey of photography from the earliest efforts in the 19th century to the most recent techniques and aesthetics. See: Untold Stor… Organized by George Eastman House | Type: exhibition
Naked before the Camera

April 4, 2012 to September 9, 2012 – Metropolitan Museum of Art Since the beginning of art and in every medium, depicting the human body has been among the artist's greatest challenges and supreme achievements, as can so easily be seen by Museum visitors walking… Organized by Metropolitan Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
Fay Godwin Photographer

April 4, 2012 to July 28, 2012 – Aberdeen Art Gallery This small display highlights a local private collection of photographs by the well know British photographer Fay Godwin. During the 1970s and 1980s Godwin produced portraits of dozens of well known… Organized by Aberdeen Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Memory and the Photographic Image

April 16, 2012 to September 9, 2012 – Bartels Gallery, Floor 1L, Johnson Museum of Art For many photographers, memory plays a large role in the choice of subject and how that subject is interpreted. These images often become the only record of a moment passed, and therefore the one tha… Organized by Johnson Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
The Radical Camera

April 19, 2012 to September 9, 2012 – Columbus Museum of Art Guided by a belief in the transformative power of photography, the Photo League took to the streets in the 1930s and 1940s to record the effects of poverty, war, racial inequality, and social injusti… Organized by Columbus Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
What is a Photograph?

April 20, 2012 to August 19, 2012 – Templeman Galleries, New Orleans Museum of Art "What is a Photograph?" describes and includes many of the most common photographic processes (daguerreotypes, salted paper prints, gelatin silver prints, and ink jet prints), but it also includes ob… Organized by New Orleans Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
I Spy: Photography and the Theater of the Street, 1938–2010

April 22, 2012 to August 5, 2012 – National Gallery of Art Since the invention of small hand-held cameras and faster films in the late 19th century, photographers have been fascinated with capturing everyday life in the urban environment. An exhibition of so… Organized by National Gallery of Art | Type: exhibition
The Era of The Photographic Plates

April 25, 2012 to April 28, 2013 – Swiss Camera Museum In 1871, Richard Leach Maddox revolutionised photography when he discovered a way of producing sensitive plates which conserved their light sensitivity durably. This made them much easier to use, fo… Organized by Swiss Camera Museum | Type: exhibition
Travels with Michael Palin: Photographs by Basil Pao

May 1, 2012 to September 23, 2012 – Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum Michael Palin is your guide as you travel the world in this spectacular exhibition. Experience the beautiful faces and places he found through breathtaking photographs, captured by his friend and tra… Organized by Michael Wong | Type: exhibition
The Queen Art and Image

May 17, 2012 to October 21, 2012 – National Portrait Gallery To mark Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 this landmark exhibition brings together over sixty of the most remarkable and resonant portraits of the Queen made during her sixty-year reign. Featuri… Organized by National Portrait Gallery | Type: exhibition
Portraits - "Sixties Blokes and Birds"

May 17, 2012 at 7:30pm to August 15, 2012 at 10pm – The Square Club Berkley Square Clifton Bristol BS8 1HB An exhibition of Angela Williams Portraits from the 1960's Organized by Angela Williams Archive AWA | Type: exhibition, in, bristol, at, the, square, club
President in Petticoats! Civil War Propaganda in Photographs

May 18, 2012 to September 2, 2012 – International Center of Photography As the American Civil War ground to a dispiriting and unheroic end after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's rebel forces and the shocking assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in mid-April… Organized by International Center of Photography | Type: exhibition
A Short History of Photography: From the ICP Collection

May 18, 2012 to September 2, 2012 – International Center of Photography In honor of its retiring Ehrenkranz Director Willis Hartshorn, the International Center of Photography presents an engaging survey of its vast and unique collection of photographs. Founded in 1975, a… Organized by International Center of Photography | Type: exhibition
The Post Office In Pictures

May 19, 2012 to August 31, 2012 – Lumen Church The Post Office in Pictures is an exhibition showcasing iconic photographic images sourced from The Royal Mail Archive. In 1933 Sir Stephen Tallents was appointed Public Relations Officer to the Gene… Organized by The Royal Mail Archive | Type: exhibition
HEINRICH KUEHN AND HIS AMERICAN CIRCLE: ALFRED STIEGLITZ AND EDWARD STEICHEN

May 19, 2012 to August 27, 2012 – Neue Galerie New York Museum for German and Austrian Art The Neue Galerie New York will present “Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle: Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen,” an exhibition focusing on the luminous work of this important Austrian photograp… Organized by Neue Galerie New York Museum for German and Austrian Art | Type: exhibition
The Lives of Great Photographers

May 26, 2012 to August 25, 2012 – The Dick From photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron and Eadweard Muybridge to Dorothea Lange, Tony Ray-Jones and Weegee, this exhibition highlights some of the most famous images eve… Organized by The Dick and NMeM | Type: exhibition
Fay Godwin Photographer

May 28, 2012 to July 28, 2012 – Aberdeen Art Gallery This small display highlights a local private collection of photographs by the well know British photographer Fay Godwin. During the 1970s and 1980s Godwin produced portraits of dozens of well known… Organized by Aberdeen Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Photographing The Alberta And Montana Frontier, 1870 – 1930

May 31, 2012 to August 19, 2012 – Musee Heritage In spite of extreme challenges, early photographers were able to create both beautiful and informative images. Government, military, scientific and commercial photographers recorded historical detai… Organized by Musee Heritage | Type: exhibition
North Station - Dutch Photographers in Paris 1900 - 1968 The story behind the photos

May 31, 2012 to July 29, 2012 – Institute Dutch Paris, City of photography, has always attracted professionals worldwide. The Dutch photographers were also likely to spend part of their work in this city so rich visually. Following a success at th… Organized by Institute Dutch | Type: exhibition
Queen Elizabeth II by Cecil Beaton: A Diamond Jubilee Celebration

June 1, 2012 to September 3, 2012 – Royal BC Museum Celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee at the Royal BC Museum. This special exhibition of nearly 100 portraits by royal photographer, Cecil Beaton (1904-80) depicts Elizabeth in her roles as princess,… Organized by Michael Wong | Type: exhibition
Jacky Redgate: the logic of vision

June 4, 2012 at 10am to September 9, 2012 at 5pm – Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/jacky-redgate/ Organized by Judy Annear | Type: exhibition
Photography from the Museum Collection

June 8, 2012 to August 12, 2012 – Thomas H. Bayly Building, University of Virginia Art Museum These focused exhibitions will engage key moments in the history of photography, explore the development of the medium, and highlight important pieces from UVaM's rich collection of photographs.Photo… Organized by University of Virginia Art Museum | Type: exhibition
Lewis Carroll

June 12, 2012 to July 29, 2012 – La Chambre Who does not know Charles Lutwidge Dodgson aka Lewis Carroll, renowned author of The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, published their books… Organized by La Chambre | Type: exhibition
Hans Steiner: A Photographer in the Century

June 29, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Musée gruérien Hans Steiner (1907–1968) as a photographer is very representative of the golden age of Swiss photography. During this time, from the 1930s to the 1950s, there emerged a generation of photographers wh… Organized by MUSÉE GRUÉRIEN | Type: exhibition
Selling Dreams: 100 Years of Fashion Photography

July 7, 2012 to September 2, 2012 – Royal Albert Memorial Museum This exhibition explores the range of approaches to fashion image-making from the 1911 to today, it comprises sixty photographs, including many rarely exhibited and recently acquired works by twenty… Organized by Royal Albert Memorial Museum | Type: exhibition
Julia Margaret Cameron: Photographs of Children

July 9, 2012 to January 4, 2013 – Dimbola Museum & Galleries An exhibition of 20 portraits of children by Julia Margaret Cameron from the V&A’s collection, which were on show earlier this year at the V&A Museum of Childhood. Cameron made over 200 photo… Organized by The Julia Margaret Cameron Trust | Type: exhibition
Contemporary Japanese Photobooks

July 13, 2012 to September 9, 2012 – The Photographers' Gallery Photographs flourish on the printed page in Japan like nowhere else. This exhibition transforms the Wolfson Gallery into a reading room featuring over 200 Japanese photobooks that are virtually impo… Organized by The Photographers' Gallery | Type: exhibition
By Way of These Eyes: Masterworks of American Photography

July 14, 2012 to October 28, 2012 – American Museum Photographs from the renowned Christopher Hyland Collection, which juxtaposes iconic Stateside images from the early 1900s with vibrant photographs of 21st century America. Among the artists represen… Organized by American Museum | Type: exhibition
Daniel Meadows: Early Photographic Works

July 14, 2012 to September 8, 2012 – Ffotogallery In the early 1970s Daniel Meadows embarked on a journey to create a social snapshot of Britain, breaking with photography tradition and infusing the medium with new energies and ways of seeing. Mead… Organized by Ffotogallery | Type: exhibition
David Bailey’s East End

July 16, 2012 to August 5, 2012 – Compressor House The exhibition focuses on three periods: the 1960s, the ’80s and recent years. 1960s This section features images shot for a Sunday Times Magazine article on the Krays that could never be published.… Organized by CREATE | Type: exhibition
London 1948 photo exhibition

July 17, 2012 to July 20, 2012 – Greater London Authority City Hall There are 40 photographs in the exhibition, selected from nearly 500 images in The Times Archive Collection. Most of the photographs are unpublished and unseen and almost all have been preserved in a… Organized by Greater London Authority City Hall | Type: exhibition
Talk: Fay Godwin Photographer

July 18, 2012 from 12:30pm to 1pm – Aberdeen Art Gallery A lunchtime talk given by Griffin Co, Curator. Organized by Aberdeen Art Gallery | Type: talk