Eadweard Muybridge photographs at Tate Britain until 16th January 2011
Showing posts with label photographer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photographer. Show all posts
Friday, 10 September 2010
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
André Kertész: On Reading
17 July - 4 October 2009 This is the first time photographs from On Reading by Hungarian-born André Kertész (1894 – 1985) - one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century - will be exhibited in the UK.
Taken between 1915 and 1980 in the many places he lived, visited and worked – including Argentina, France, Hungary, UK and USA – Kertész’s photographs are a celebration of the absorptive power and pleasure of reading.
The Swiss Lounge has started a series on his blog looking at what people are reading.
Thursday, 16 July 2009
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Saul Fletcher
Untitled#210 (Birdcage), 2009
black & white Polaroid 13.3 x 10.8 cms
"In his photographs Saul Fletcher visualizes human existence in all its temporal dimensions and physical fragility. The scenes he depicts achieve a concentrated intimacy: In order to take in every detail, the viewer is compelled to get as close as possible to the work. His careful still lifes draw attention to details; the discarded moments of the everyday become the focus, and in this way are imbued with new or altered meaning.”Extract from catalogue for the 4th Berlin Biennial (2006)
Saul Fletcher is showing photographs and installations at Alison Jaques Gallery, 16-18 Berners Street, London W1 until 27th June.
Monday, 31 March 2008
Rik Snowley
Self portrait by Rik Snowley 1959-2008
RIK SNOWLEY: “ON PHOTOGRAPHY”
I honed my photographic-printing knowledge by working and watching the great “TOP BUZZER”, unfortunately now in exile. I’d witnessed that bloke perform some superb darkroom-deeds, once he even got a photographic image onto cottage cheese…………..MARVELLOUS!
I’m a great fan of photography but desperately try to avoid a majority of photographers. I generally find that they stooge around in floppy clothes, they say things like:”f.11 this and AUTO-FOCUS that”, and as for that other cliché; “What lens did you use?”……….please. Well the lens I use looks rather pleasant, it has a nice purple colour on the front of the glass, and lots of numbers engraved around the outside. Once I added all these numbers together, it came to 80.4, so it must be a good one. The images shown here are a very small sample of the type of subject-matter my lens and I have seen. They are the result of “LOOKING +WALKING”, lots of walking and even more looking, looking until it hurts. When I spy something that looks ideal then “TAKE DEAD AIM AND ATTACK”. When I’m in the darkroom then the sexy bit begins; stinking warm chemicals, expensive photie paper sliding out of sensuous packaging from romantic places, Ilford. I’m standing over the exposing-image for an eternity, waving my hands over areas like a crazed-fool, wishing I’d got the camera exposure right. Maybe I should have listened to those floppy stooges with that “f.11” stuff. Don’t donkey around, just get out there and capture images.
I honed my photographic-printing knowledge by working and watching the great “TOP BUZZER”, unfortunately now in exile. I’d witnessed that bloke perform some superb darkroom-deeds, once he even got a photographic image onto cottage cheese…………..MARVELLOUS!
I’m a great fan of photography but desperately try to avoid a majority of photographers. I generally find that they stooge around in floppy clothes, they say things like:”f.11 this and AUTO-FOCUS that”, and as for that other cliché; “What lens did you use?”……….please. Well the lens I use looks rather pleasant, it has a nice purple colour on the front of the glass, and lots of numbers engraved around the outside. Once I added all these numbers together, it came to 80.4, so it must be a good one. The images shown here are a very small sample of the type of subject-matter my lens and I have seen. They are the result of “LOOKING +WALKING”, lots of walking and even more looking, looking until it hurts. When I spy something that looks ideal then “TAKE DEAD AIM AND ATTACK”. When I’m in the darkroom then the sexy bit begins; stinking warm chemicals, expensive photie paper sliding out of sensuous packaging from romantic places, Ilford. I’m standing over the exposing-image for an eternity, waving my hands over areas like a crazed-fool, wishing I’d got the camera exposure right. Maybe I should have listened to those floppy stooges with that “f.11” stuff. Don’t donkey around, just get out there and capture images.
These words were written for an exhibition of Rik's art work in 2001. There is a retrospective exhibition being planned for 2009.
Thursday, 7 February 2008
John Londei
Tallets Fishmongers Broadway Market, London 1984 by John Londei
John Londei has been documenting the decline of the traditional small shop in Britain. He has produced a delightful book of photographs called Shutting Up Shop. The National Portrait Gallery in London is showing a small selection of his photographs in the bookshop gallery until 4 May. You can see more images here.
Sunday, 7 October 2007
Charlotte Cory
On the way to Pollocks toy museum with a friend, we stumbled upon this amazing show of photographs by Charlotte Cory at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery. The show is at 28 Charlotte Street, London W1T 2JS. It continues until the 14th October. Rebecca Hossack has a second gallery in Conway Street with another great show opening there next week - more about that in the next post ...
Friday, 1 June 2007
Harmonica Breakdown
Jane Dudley in Harmonica Breakdown (c) Gerda Peterich 1938Phoenix Dance Theatre stage a revival of Jane Dudley's Harmonica Breakdown at Sadler's Wells, in London on June 2. You can read more about the photographer, Gerda Peterich here.
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