Sophie's round up - what's on in photography
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London Exhibitions
ATLAS GALLERY. 49 Dorset Street, London, W1U 7NF. Tel: 020 7224 4192. Web: www.atlasgallery.com e-mail: info@atlasgallery.com Nearest Tube: Baker Street. Open: Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm. Adm: Free.
No Current Show.
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GETTY IMAGES GALLERY. 46 Eastcastle Street, London, W1W 8DX. Tel: 020 7291 5380. Web:www.gettyimagesgallery.com Open: Mon - Fri 10am - 6.30pm. Adm: Free. Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus.
15th April - 4th June. THURSTON HOPKINS - Photojournalist. Historic images capturing the lives and times of people and events from across the world will be displayed in a new exhibition at the Getty Images Gallery to celebrate the long career of one of Britain’s most renowned photojournalists, Thurston Hopkins. The images featured in the exhibition have been selected by Thurston Hopkins and Getty Images Gallery to represent and showcase the breadth of subject matter required of photographers at the time. The exhibition also features some of Thurston’s personal negatives, alongside iconic images of Joan Crawford, Alfred Hitchcock and Ingrid Bergman.
Credit: Thurston Hopkins/Stringer
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HOOPERS GALLERY. 15 Clerkenwell Close, London, EC1 0AA. Tel: 020 7490 3908. e-mail: gallery@hoopersgallery.co.uk web: www.hoopersgallery.co.uk
Open: Tues - Fri 11am - 4.30pm Thurs 11am - 7pm. Nearest tube Farringdon District & Circle Line. Adm freeUntil - 21st April. SPRING SHOW - A Mixed Exhibition Of Hoopers Photographers. A comprehensive exhibition showcasing some of Hoopers Gallery photographers.
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HOST GALLERY. 1 Honduras Street, EC1Y 0TH. Tel: 020 7253 2770. e-mail: info@hostgallery.co.uk
Web: www.hostgallery.co.uk Open: Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm, Sat 10am - 4pm. Adm free.Awaiting Details .
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IDEA GENERATION GALLERY. 11 Chance Street, London E2 7JB. Tel: 020 7749 6853. Open Mon - Fri 12noon - 6pm, Sat & Sun 12noon - 5pm. Neearest Tube Liverpool Street - Central/ Old Street - Northern. Adm Free.
Until 16th - January 2011. MICK ROCK - Rock Music In Association With Zippo. Celebrated as ‘The Man Who Shot the 70s’, Mick Rock’s images define rock n’ roll. Rock launched his career in 1972 with his portrait of an unknown David Bowie and spent the next four decades capturing the most fascinating and exciting characters in rock music. Coinciding with the publication of Rock’s new book Exposed: the Faces of Rock n’ Roll (available to purchase in the gallery), Rock: Music includes many previously unseen and unpublished images, as well as rare and unexpected portraits from some of Mick’s classic shoots.
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MAGNUM PRINT ROOMS. 61 Gee Street, London, EC1V 3RS. Open: Wed - Fri 11am- 4.30pm, Sat 10am - 1pm.
Until - 26th February 2011. THE MAGNUM MARK. This needs no explanation but is simply a chance to see the various stamps & accreditations from some of the worlds most famous photographers.
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MICHAEL HOPPEN CONTEMPORARY. 3 Jubilee Place, London SW3 3TD. Tel: 020 7352 3649.
e-mail gallery@michaelhoppen.com Open: Tues - Fri 12noon - 6pm, Sat 10.30 - 4pm.
Nearest Tube South Kensington/Sloane Square Circle & District and Piccadilly Line. Adm Free9th December - 22nd January2011. LEOPOLDO POMÉS - Vintage Prints. Born in Barcelona in 1931, Pomés, a self-taught photographer, had a highly successful and celebrated late career in advertising in his native Spain. However, it is his evocative early photographs of Barcelona that will form the basis of this new exhibition. Taken between 1947 and 1969 these vintage photographs of Barcelona show a city in flux. With humour Pomés captures the ancient and the modern existing side by side in post-war Barcelona: a horse and cart being overtaken by a motorcar (1947) , a knife sharpener oblivious to a risqué Sophia Loren poster, graffiti on a crumbling wall and a piano on the street waiting to be played during the fiera. Pomés’ intimate relationship with the fabric of Barcelona is evident in these images and he admits that he has never wanted tonor been driven to photograph any other city apart from his own.
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NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM. Romney Road, Greenwich, London SE10 9NF. Open: 7 days 10am - 7pm.
Until -April 2011 TBC. WATERLINE. Waterline is a new photographic exhibition revealing the joys and trials of the heyday of cruising. The exhibition showcases images from the Museum’s 'Waterline' collection of historic cruise ship photographs, reflecting the experiences of passengers and crew as well as the range of destinations visited. Conga lines, lifeboat drills and sumptuous displays of cruise food feature alongside historical film footage.
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NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. St Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE. Tel: 020 7312 2463
Web: www.npg.org.uk Open: Daily 10am - 6pm Thurs & Fri open until 9pm. Nearest Tube Charing Cross, Leicester Square and Embankment.Until - 20th February2011. TAYLOR WESSING PORTRAIT PRIZE. The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 presents the very best in contemporary portrait photography, showcasing the work of talented young photographers and gifted amateurs alongside that of established professionals and photography students.
Merel by Clare Shilland [ELLE Commission Winner]Until - 13rd February 2011. MARY McCARTNEY - From Where I Stand. The display of 12 portraits will include portraits of well-known British figures from the worlds of art, film, fashion and music alongside portraits of McCartney's family. Photographs of PJ Harvey and British film directors from the Gallery's Collection will be on show besides portraits of Helen Mirren, Gwyneth Paltrow as Madonna, Sam Taylor-Wood and the Chapman Brothers, Tracey Emin as Frida Kahlo, Vivienne Westwood and Lily Cole amongst others. In an insight to Mary's world, both public and private, intimate portraits of Stella and Linda McCartney will also be exhibited.
Until - 3rd April 2011. DMITRI KASTERINE - Twentieth Century Portraits. One of Kasterine's most famous sittings was with Samuel Beckett in 1965 at a rehearsal for Beginning to End. This remarkable portrait of Beckett was one of the twenty photographs acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in 2009 and is included in this display. Other important photographs on display will include Kasterine's portrait of the late Dame Beryl Bainbridge (1972), David Hockney (1974) photographed in Paris at the time of his major exhibition at the Louvre, and his frequently reproduced double portrait of Kingsley and Martin Amis (1975), most recently published in Martin Amis's autobiography Experience: A Memoir.
Until - 17th April 2011. JASON BELL - An Englishman In New York. Inspired by some of the 120,000 English men and women living in New York City Jason Bell has identified and photographed leading British born figures setting the cultural agenda in New York, including Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, writer Zoë Heller, Nicola Perry, owner of Tea and Sympathy, artist Bill Jacklin, and television pundit and Barney's window dresser Simon Noonan.
Until - 30th May 2011. E O HOPPÉ - Society, Studio & Street. E.O. Hoppé is one of the most important photographers of the first half of the twentieth century. Celebrated during his lifetime, much of Hoppé's work has only recently been reassembled and this major survey will enable visitors to discover this forgotten master. The exhibition brings together Hoppé's strikingly modernist portraits of important personalities including George Bernard Shaw, Margot Fonteyn and Vita Sackville-West and his fascinating photojournalist studies,which capture the realities of day-to-day life in Britain between the wars.
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NATIONAL THEATRE. Lyttleton Exhibition Foyer, National Theatre, London, SE1 9PX.
Until - 16th January 2011. TAKE A VIEW: Landscape Photographer Of The Year 2010. This popular annual award, now in its fourth year, culminates in a stunning exhibition of over 100 photographs that show the dramatic beauty and variety of our country, reminding us to safeguard this precious legacy of our landscape heritage! Now under threat even more (see Government plans to sell off National Parks & Nature Reserves). Images are stunning and Charlie Waite has again excelled himself and oversaw an excellent collection of outstanding and important landscape images.
Winning Image of Corfe Castle, Dorset by Dorset based photographer Antony Spencer.___________
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. Waterhouse Gallery, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD. Tel: 020 7942 5000. Web: www.nhm.ac.uk Open: 7 days 10am - 5.50pm. Adm: Free. Nearest Tube: South Kensington.
Until - 11th March 2011. Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Inspirational photography from across the world showing wildlife at their most beautiful and most wild. As always a stunning visual treat! Don't hang about reading this..just go and see it!!
Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year is owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
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PHOTOFUSION. 17a Electric Lane, London, SW9 8LA. Tel: 020 7738 5774. e-mail: info@photofusion.org Web: www.photofusion.org Nearest Tube Brixton.
3rd December - 28th January 2011. ANNUAL MEMBERS PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW 2010. Photofusion is delighted to announce its second members’ exhibition, which reflects the different genres, approaches and interests from photographers within the membership scheme. Open to annual members to submit work, fourteen photographers have been selected and will show prints either from a recently completed series or a project in development.Miranda Gavin, Deputy and Online Editor of the bimonthly contemporary photography magazine HotShoe, will open the exhibition and choose a photographer whose work will receive the “Hotshoe Photofusion Award” title.
Photo: Oliver Wood
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PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY. The Photographers' Gallery, 16 - 18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW. Tel: 0207 831 1772. e-mail: info@photonet.org.uk Web: www.photonet.org.uk Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus. Open Mon - Sat 11am - 6pm, Thurs 11am - 8pm, Sun 12noon - 6pm. Adm Free
The Photographers Gallery is closed for refurbishement until the Autumn 2011.
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PHOTO SPACE. Putney Library, 5-7 Disraeli Road, London SW15 2DR. Tel: 020 8871 7090. Open: Mon - Tue, Thurs - Fri 9am - 8pm, Sat 9am - 5pm, Sun 1pm - 5pm. Adm: Free.
19th December - 9th January 2011. BRIAN SHARLAND - This Little Britain. A gentle look at the small features that adorn this beautiful island. From village green benches to sea defences and garden sheds to little statues Brian has lovingly recorded many of the features that make little Britain great!
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PROUD CHELSEA. 161 King's Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 5XP. Tel: 020 7349 0822. Web: www.proud.co.uk e-mail: info@proud.co.uk Open: Mon - Sun 10am - 7pm.
Until - 6th December. TOM HANLEY - Imagine:John Lennon. One of the most recognisable faces in the world, even now, John Lennon is one of the most celebrated musical icons of the last century, his songs still endlessly popular. Hanley’s relationship with Lennon began in the early 1960s as he started to work with the Beatles. Given unrestricted access to the superstar group, Hanley was able to capture the more intimate moments behind closed doors while ‘Beatlemania’ gripped the world and for some time after, as he built relationships with the band members.
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PROUD CENTRAL. 32 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6BP. Tel: 020 7839 4942. e-mail: info@proud.co.uk Web: www.proud.co.uk Open: Mon - Fri 11am - 7pm, Sat 11am - 5.30pm. Adm: Free. Nearest Tube Charing Cross - Northern, Bakerloo, Central and Main Line Rail.
9th December -23rd January 2011. ADRIAN BOOT - London Calling; The Clash. Proud Camden presents London Calling: The Clash by Adrian Boot. This unique exhibition is a photographic portrait of the most influential punk rock band, credited with pioneering the advocacy of radical politics in rock, and includes never before seen images.
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ROYAL OBSERVATORY GREENWICH. Blackheath Avenue, Greenwich, London, SE10 8XJ. Open 7 days 10am - 7pm.
Until - 27th February 2011. The Royal Observatory, Greenwich is proud to present Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2010, showcasing some incredible images of the sky, from within our solar system to deep space.
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SILVERPRINT. 12 Valentine Place, Southwark, London, SE1 8QH. Tel: 020 7620 0844. Open Mon - Fri 9.30am - 5.30pm, Sat 10am - 1pm. Adm Free
Until - 23rd December. SOPHIE MARTIN-CASTEX, GLENN MILLINGTON & BRIAN SHARLAND- Imageries Et Trois. Three images from each of the three above photographers chosen to reflect their world view and exploration of monochrome. Superbly printed on Epson Watercolour Radiant White paper this exhibition is a little treasure!
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THE.GALLERY@OXO. Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London, SE1 9NH. Tel: 020 7021 1600. Web: http://www.coinstreet.org Open: Daily 11am - 6pm.
Until - 9th January 2011. THE ART OF THE ALBUM. This exciting exhibition features original signed and authorised works from artists including; Sir Peter Blake, Richard Evans, Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell, Robert Crumb, Michael Spencer Jones, Malcolm Poynter, Julian Grater, David Scheinmann, Nils-Udo, Susan Derges, York Tillyer, Marc Bessant, David Cox and the estates of Robert Mapplethorpe and Trevor Key. This rare collection of album art includes; The Beatles, David Bowie, The Who, Ian Dury, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Paul Weller, Sex Pistols and Louis Armstrong. Though this is a mixed media exhibition we decided to include this as many of the great covers were collaborations between photographers and artists.
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V&A MUSEUM. Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL. Tel: 020 7942 2000. Web: www.vam.ac.uk Open: 7 days 10am - 5.45pm. Nearest Tube: South Kensington.
Until - 20th February 2011. SHADOW CATCHERS - Camera-Less Photography. Shadow Catchers presents the work of five international artists who, for the last twenty years or more, have been challenging the assumption that a camera is necessary to make a photograph. By casting shadows on light sensitive paper or chemically manipulating its surface these artists seemingly capture the presence of objects, figures or glowing light. The results are exciting images often with surreal or abstract effects and symbolic content. These camera-less techniques were explored at the dawn of photography and have now been rediscovered by contemporary image makers. On display are unique and beautifully crafted works by Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Adam Fuss, Garry Fabian Miller and Floris Neusüss.
Adam Fuss, Invocation, 1992. Museum no. E.693-1993, ©Courtesy of Adam Fuss/V&A ImagesUntil - 27th Marchy 2011. A HISTORY OF CAMERA-LESS PHOTOGRAPHY. The first photographs ever made were created without the use of a camera. This display explores the camera-less image from its discovery in the 1850s to the present day. Drawing together unique examples from the V&A collection this display showcases the work of the key figures in the history of photography, including Anna Atkins, Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy.
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V&A MUSEUM OF CHILDHOOD. Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9PA. Tel: 020 8983 5200. Open: 7 days 10am - 5.45pm. Nearest Tube: Bethnal Green. Adm: Free.
Until - 27th March 2011. CRAIG DEANE - Doll Face. An intriguing series of photographic portraits of dolls from the Museum of Childhood's collection, exploring the changing representations we as people make of ourselves, by photographer Craig Deane. Craig explains, "As a portrait and still-life photographer I am interested in the representation of the human form; mankind's desire to make images and objects in its own likeness is as old as the hills and I am particularly interested in exploring the evolving representations we have made of ourselves (and given to our children to play with) as illustrated by the broad spectrum of dolls held in the 8,000-strong collection at the Museum".
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VIEWFINDER GALLERY.52 Brixton Village (formerly Granville Arcade), London SW9 8PS
e-mail: gallery@viewfinder.org.uk web: www.viewfinder.org.uk Open: Tuesday - Friday 12pm-5pm; Saturday and Sunday 12-4pm. ADM: Free.2nd December - 12th December. DAN TOBIN SMITH & JOEL LARDNER - The Krystal World. The Viewfinder Photography Gallery is pleased to present “The Krystal World,” a collaborative project initiated by Joel Lardner and Dan Tobin Smith. The project attempts to stimulate new imaginative strategies via an alchemical photomontage technique. Tobin Smith’s photographic archive provides a seductive sequence of images from which new meanings are formed and new worlds explored. Cordyceps fungi provides a way of understanding this creative process and the discourse associated with beauty and decay that permeates this body of work.The photographs of Dan Tobin Smith are transformed and transmuted into different forms by the illustrative work of Joel Lardner in an expressive, organic and intuitive response to the original photographic work. These organic forms evolve out of the photographic work and depend upon it for their development in much the same way as the Cordyceps fungus invades and exploits its host for its own development and survival.
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