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Wednesday, September 5, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Colonial Eye: Early Portrait Photography in India

July 20, 2012 to October 21, 2012 – Museum für Fotografie (Museum of Photography) The Museum für Fotografie is exhibiting a collection of around 280 portraits taken in India and Sri Lanka during the second half of the 19th century, at the height of Britain’s imperial might. The co… Organized by Museum für Fotografie | Type: exhibition
Canon R.C. MacLeod

July 24, 2012 to May 31, 2013 – Facebook Take a glimpse through a Canon's camera at rural life in Northumberland at the turn of the 20th Century by visiting Woodhorn Museum & Northumberland Archives page about Canon Roderick Charles Mac… Organized by Woodhorn | Type: facebook, exhibition
Rarely Seen Photographs – A Journey through the Photographic Treasures of Hungarian Museums

July 25, 2012 to September 16, 2012 – Hungarian House of Photography Arriving from Debrecen, Szigetbecse, Pécs, Székesfehérvár, Nyírbátor, Kecskemét, Szeged and Nyíregyháza, the 200 or so items covering 130 years from 1864 have a variety of authors, some unnamed, some… Organized by Hungarian House of Photography | Type: exhibition
Another London

July 27, 2012 to September 16, 2012 – Tate Britain Tate Britain will hold an exhibition of 180 classic twentieth-century photographs which take London as their key subject. In the years between 1930 and 1980, some of the best-known photographers from… Organized by Tate Britain | Type: exhibition
Olympic Celebration: Athletes in Motion

July 28, 2012 to October 20, 2012 – Kingston Museum The human body in motion is timeless, but the ways trying to depict this have changed and evolved over time. Coinciding with the 2012 London Olympics, this exhibition brings together old and new tech… Organized by Kingston Museum | Type: exhibition
Twentieth Century - 100 years of popular photography

August 4, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Colne Valley Museum An interesting exhibition depicting the history of photography by well-known local photographer Ian Baxter. Organized by Colne Valley Museum | Type: exhibition
Eugène Atget Old Paris

August 24, 2012 to November 4, 2012 – Art Gallery of New South Wales Lose yourself in the beauty of Old Paris with over 200 rare and original prints from the founder of documentary photography. His bellows camera, glass plates and printing technique may link him to ea… Organized by Art Gallery of New South Wales | Type: exhibition
Royal Geographical Society in Asia from 1862 to 1955

August 31, 2012 to September 16, 2012 – National Geographic London A unique exhibition of 100 years in Asia from 1862 to 1955. See website for further information. Organized by Royal Geographical Society and National Geographic | Type: exhibition