Sophie's round up - what's on in photography
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.
Until - 6th March 2010. FRANKE EIGEN - Shoku. Awaiting details....
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BRITISH LIBRARY. 96 Euston Road, London, NW6 2DB. Tel: 0843 208 1144. Web: www.bl.uk/pointsofview Nearest Tube: Kings Cross/Euston. Open Mon, Wed - Fri 9.30am - 6pm, Tues 9.30 - 8pm, Sat 9.30am - 5pm, Sun & Bank Holidays (UK) 11am - 5pm. Adm: Free.
Until - 7th March 2010. POINTS OF VIEW - Capturing the 19th century in photographs. From the first tentative ‘drawings of shadows’ produced in the mid-1830s to its universal acceptance as a leisure pursuit, photography was swept along by a tide of entrepreneurial activity throughout the 19th century. As an influential new artistic and documentary medium, photography rapidly developed into a lucrative profession. Science, government, industry and a growing media quickly recognised its power both to reflect and to shape society, while both artists and amateurs embraced its potential for personal expression.
William Henry Fox Talbot - An Oak Tree In Winter. Courtesy British Library.__________
CHRIS BEETLES GALLERY. 8 - 10 Ryder St, London, SW1Y 6QB. Tel: 020 7839 7551. Web www.chrisbeetles.com e-mail: gallery@chrisbeetles.com Nearest Tube: Green Park - Victoria/Jubilee/Piccadilly lines. Adm Free
17th February - 16th March 2010. TERRY O'NEILL - New & Unseen. Terry O’Neill, well known for his images of Frank Sinatra, Brigitte Bardot and Audrey Hepburn, is one of Britain’s most popular photographers, and his work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Now, for the first time, the Chris Beetles Gallery in London will exhibit a collection of images that have never been seen before, catalogued during an extensive overhaul of his archive during the past year. In addition, the show will include several vintage prints, and other works that the gallery has not offered before.
Audrey Hepburn © Terry O'Neill___________
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.
Until - 6th March 2010. HERBERT PONTING - The Journey South. Herbert Ponting's beautiful and graphic photographs record the conditions faced by Robert Falcon Scott's team of men before their final push to the pole and before tragedy ultimately struck in 1912. Ponting also captured the stark beauty of Antarctica 100 years ago, in a series of landscape shots which remain iconic and timeless to this day. The collection provides a stirring testament to the heroism and bravery of all involved and perfectly encapsulates the spirit of adventure and discovery that marked the epic journey. The glass plate negatives from which these images are taken are preserved in the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. This part of the collection is represented by Getty Images.
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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 - 22nd January. GINA GLOVER - Liminal World. Glover’s interest in subjective imagery is not accidental; she is fascinated by how the brain processes and interprets visual information. In the late eighties she suffered a severe reaction to anti-malarial drugs while on photographic assignment in Africa. Subsequently Glover intermittently experienced various visual shifts, viewing the world either in an intensity of colour or in shades of grey. This experience changed the way Glover approached her practice; her understanding that the way one sees the world might not be fixed has fuelled all her photographic interest since and especially the work featured in this exhibition.
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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.Until - 27th February 2010. MARK CONDREN - Defending Life With Life. Mark Condren’s images document, among others: activist Bertha Oliva from Honduras, increasingly at risk due to post-election violence; Padre Andres Tamayo, deprived of his parish in Honduras, his Honduran citizenship revoked; and Aminatou Haidar who, on 18 December was finally allowed by the Moroccan authorities to return to Western Sahara after 32 days on hunger strike. Haidar had been in the United States to receive a major humanitarian award.
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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. Nearest Tube Liverpool Street - Central/ Old Street - Northern. Adm Free.
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MAGNUM PRINT ROOM. Magnum Photos, 63 Gee Street, London, EC1V 3RS. Tel 020 7490 1771. Open: Weds - Fri 11am - 4pm. Adm: Free. Nearest Tubes Barbican - Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City Lines, Old Street - Northern Line.
Until - 6th February. POLITICAL LANDSCAPES. Political Landscape is a reflection of the rise of issue-based landscape photography both within the agency and in the wider world of documentary practice. Today it is hard to escape the politicization of landscape imagery, most notably with regards to environmental issues. The exhibition’s predominantly environmental and conflict based content, balances journalistic and creative intention, horror and beauty, in its recording of man’s effect on the natural world. The show at Magnum Print Room seeks to take the concept one step further by specifically highlighting issue-based material both from our archive and from contemporary projects, and is understood in a gallery rather than editorial context.
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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 FreeUntil - 6th March. FERNAND FONSSAGRIVES . Once the highest paid photographers in the world, he was ambivalent about the acclaim he received in his chosen field, preferring to remain anonymous. Little was written about him, even at the peak of his success. His most memorable work traces the unique partnership he had with his first wife, legendary model Lisa Fonssagrives, a former dancer who went on to marry Irving Penn. A major influence and inspiration to both men, Lisa was responsible for Fonssagrives picking up a camera – she gave him a Rollieflex after his own dance career ended due to a diving injury; “It became,” he said, “part of my body”.
Born in 1910 in France to a sculptor father and a musician mother, Fonssagrives was encouraged to do the things he most loved: science, art, sports, gymnastics and dance. He moved to America aged 18 to continue his studies, and returned to Europe at 21 for military service. After joining a German dance company, he met the young Swedish dancer Lisa Bergstrom who became his dance partner and then his wife.
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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 - 21st March 2010. TWIGGY - A Life In Photographs. A new display at the National Portrait Gallery will celebrate Twiggy’s 60th birthday and the publication of a new photographic biography of her life. One of the best-known and most respected models of all time Twiggy has worked with many of the world’s leading photographers and a selection of the most iconic and important of these portraits will be on show at the Gallery. Twiggy says, ‘Over my career I’ve had the privilege of working with many great photographers. I’m very excited to see so many of these portraits coming together at the National Portrait Gallery and in my new book. It’s really interesting to see how fashion photography and portraiture have evolved throughout my career. I hope that this display and book will give people the opportunity to see these pictures that have captured definitive moments in my career.
Until - 5th April 2010. JANE BOWN - Exposures. Working almost exclusively in black and white and with natural light, throughout her career Bown has produced astonishingly candid photographs that reveal the private side of her famous subjects. 2009 celebrates the 60th anniversary for when Jane Bown started work at the Observer.
18th February - 6th June 2010. IRVING PENN - PORTRAITS. Irving Penn (1917–2009) was one of the great photographers of our time. Focusing specifically on his portraits of major cultural figures of the last seven decades, Irving Penn Portraits is a glorious celebration of his work in this genre. Penn photographed an extraordinary range of sitters from the worlds of literature, music and the visual and performing arts. Among those featured in the exhibition are Truman Capote, Salvador Dali, Christian Dior, T.S. Eliot, Duke Ellington, Grace Kelly, Rudolf Nureyev, Al Pacino, Edith Piaf, Pablo Picasso and Harold Pinter.
Marlene Dietrich, New York, 1948___________
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 April 2010. Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year. Inspirational photography from across the world showing wildlife at their most beautiful and most wild. The snag for us is which amazing image to show, in the end we opted for this breathtaking photograph by Danny Green. Starling populations in the UK swell in December and January as birds from the continent head for milder wintering areas. Huge flocks roost in many spots throughout the country, and as Danny has been working on a long-term project to photograph these impressive roosts, he has visited most of them. ‘This gathering,’ says Danny, ‘was by far the most impressive I have ever seen.’ The location was Gretna Green, Scotland. The stage was set: a perfect evening, hundreds upon thousands of starlings. And then the main character appeared, off stage-left – a peregrine falcon, which sent ripples of pulsating panic throughout the entire flock. ‘I used a slow shutter-speed,’ says Danny, ‘so I could accentuate this lovely sweeping movement as the birds exploded over farmland and trees to escape the hunting peregrine.’
Danny Green, Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year is owned by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine.
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PHOTO-SPACE. 530 Commercial Road, London, E1 0HY. Tel: 020 7375 0441. Nearest Station Limehouse DLR. Open: Tues - Sat 11am - 6pm. Adm: Free.
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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.
Until - 26th March 2010. GIACOMO BRUNELLI - The Animals. Photofusion is delighted to present The Animals, a series of photographs by Giacomo Brunelli to London audiences for the first time. Over the past few years Brunelli has developed a style which he calls “animal focused street photography”. By pushing the boundaries of nature photography Brunelli creates eerie and unfamiliar images, which succeed in capturing the instinctive drama and wildness of his subjects. Shot on black and white film, with an old 35mm camera, Brunelli’s images have a power and intimacy about them which sets them apart from standard nature photography. He finds his subjects in backyards, small villages, fields, farms and near his home in London, performing a ritual of interaction with them in order to get the shot he is happy with.
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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
Until - 17th April 2010. Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. The Deutsche Börse Photography Prize rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, who has made the most significant contribution, in exhibition or publication format, to the medium of photography over the previous year.
Shortlisted artists for the prize are -
Anna Fox - Zoe Leonard
Sophie Ristelhueber - Donovan Wylie___________
PROUD CAMDEN. The Horse Hospital, Stables Market, Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8AH. Tel: 020 7839 4942. Web: www.proud.co.uk e-mail: info@proud.co.uk Open: Mon - Sun 11.30am - 5.30pm.
Until - 21st February 2010. BRIAN ARIS - Being Blondie. As Blondie celebrates thirty-five years since their inception, Proud Camden presents Being Blondie: Debbie Harry by Brian Aris, a revealing collection of images specially selected from the archive of celebrated photographer Brian Aris, focusing on their leading lady, Deborah Harry.
Until - 21st March 2010. Rock & Roll Animals. Proud Camden South Gallery presents Rock ‘n' Roll Animals, a photographic portrait of the contemporary music scene by photographer Sophie Jarry. Inspired by photojournalists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, French born Jarry first picked up a camera 10 years ago. What began as a hobby quickly progressed into a profession as Jarry married her love of photographic documentation with her passion for live music.
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PROUD Chelsea. 161 King's Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 5XP. Tel: 020 7349 0822. e-mail: info@proud.co.uk Web: www.proud.co.uk Open: Mon - Wed, Fri 10am - 7pm, Thurs 10am - 8pm,Sat 10am - 8pm, Sun 10am - 7pm. Adm: Free. Nearest Tube Sloane Square - District & Circle Line.
Until - 28th March 2010. IVAN MASSAR - Paris Je T'Aime. Proud Chelsea presents Paris Je’taime, a tender and romantic portrait of Parisian life in 1949, as seen through the lens of premier photojournalist, Ivan Massar. Never before seen in the UK, this exhibition focuses on Paris’ everyday. Massar’s unsparing yet deeply compassionate eye illuminates the city’s ordinary people, their relationships with each other, their city and their every day. Inspired by the writings of American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, Masser’s work rejects the idea of the complicated, all encompassing image. His photographs reflect a desire to simplify, to slow things down to one focal point – one moment in time.Massar’s Paris series embodies these components with touching precision. An old man engages in a leisurely conversation with a young boy, a lone woman walks her dog through the Paris streets, two old ladies sit on park bench knitting.
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RATHBONE. 42 Windmill Street, London, W1T 2JZ. Tel: 020 7636 6699 Fax: 020 7636 6663
e-mail: info@rathbonegallery.com Web: www.rathbonegallery.com Open: Tues - Fri 11am - 6.30pm, Sat 11am - 5.30pm. Nearest Tube Goodge St (Northern & Victoria).Rathbone is taking a new direction; we've closed the gallery and from now on we're based online. This gives us more flexibility and with lower overheads we can provide much better value.
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SS ROBIN GALLERY. West India Quay, Hertsmere Road, London E14 4AE. Tel: 020 7538 0652.
e-mail info@ssrobin.org web: www.ssrobin.org Open: Weds - Fri 12noon - 6pm, Sat 12noon - 4pm.
After six years' consultation, research and planning, SS Robin has secured a funding package from Crossrail for structural conservation works. This unique icon of the nation's merchant fleet was successfully moved to drydock in Lowestoft, Suffolk in June 2008, and is set to return to her home berth in 2010 to take her place as an exciting new London landmark.
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Extended - 28th February 2010. SOPHIE MARTIN-CASTEX - Bubbles Of The Earth. A spectacular display of autumnal fungi photographs by UKL's Sophie Martin-Castex, this will be the first in a series of exhibitions at Stem & Petal Company's beautiful venue that will explore the diversity and habitat of plants. Sophie is the editor of UKlandscape and is highly regarded for her micro-landscape images that clearly show the delicate beauty and diversity of mushrooms and fungi in British woodland at this time of year.
THE BEAR. 296a Camberwell New Road, London, SE5 0RP. Tel: 020 7274 7037.
Web: thebear-freehouse.co.uk Open: Ring for details.18th - 20th February. MIKE EMBLETON - Shred The Press And Empty London.
Empty london...I don’t like crowds. I’ve never enjoyed the hustle and bustle and jostling for position in busy situations. And as a photographer, there’s nothing worse than composing a perfect shot of a landmark or feature and finding your frame spoiled by rucksack wearing tourists. I’d always wanted to see the great landmarks and features of London in their naked beauty – unblemished by hoards of climbing children or traffic jams (pedestrian and vehicular) – I wanted them just for me. So I concocted a plan to empty London of people, cars, busses and even pigeons! These photos are the result...With collage from Emma Whitten.
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.
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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 - 11th April 2010. SIMON ANNAND - The Half. This display showcases the work of Simon Annand, photographer of leading actors in the West End for the last 20 years. It provides a rare glimpse into the dressing rooms of actors in the precious, private few moments before the show: The Half. This half an hour before curtain up is used for focus and concentration and is strictly private. All members of the public are required to leave. Whatever has gone on during the day, the actor must use this time to make a transition into the fictional character of the play. There is no escape. These photographs pay tribute to the dedication of stage actors and reveal not only technical skills but also aspects of a very personal nightly ritual.
Until - 16th May 2010. Gargoyles And Shadows: Gothic Architecture and 19th Century Photography. Drawing on the V&A's rich holdings of 19th-century photographs, this display examines the relationship that developed between photography and architectural practice in the 19th century and explores how photography facilitated the re-discovery of an idealised past. The display also addresses the role played by photography in the recording of buildings before demolition and its use as a tool for preserving the national architectural heritage.
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VIEWFINDER GALLERY. Linear House, Peyton Place, London, SE10 8RS. Tel: 020 8858 8351.
e-mail: gallery@viewfinder.org.uk web: www.viewfinder.org.uk Open: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm, Sat 12noon - 4pm.Until 21st February 2010. KAREN GRAINGER - Re: Landscape, Impossible Photographs. Re: Landscape, Impossible Photographs' presents illusory photographs of English rural scenes and coastlines. Using mirrors when photographing each landscape, Karen Grainger blurs the boundary between the reflected and the real.
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