Photo London is spreeding all around through satellite events and London is becoming the lastest hub for photography !
Here is the 5 Must See shows for all tastes and sensitivity :
• Strange and familiar at Barbican
How Britain is perceived by others and specially international photographers ; this is the huge approach Martin Parr is challenging as curator for Barbican Art Gallery. Britain is a great nation full of contradictions and photography is witnessing social changes through the technical evolutions of the medium itself during the 20th century. London citizens but also Welsh miners or irish patriots are captured by great signatures such as Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paul Strand facing with less know or more contemporary ones, like Edith Tudor Hart (jewish woman arriving in the 1930s), Bruce Davidson, Shinro Ohtake or Bruce Gilden. Special mention to Raymond Depardon striking and colourfull images of Glasgow life in the 1980s.
Highly Recommended !
Strange and familiar
Britain as Revealed by International Photographers
Performing for the Camera
Until June 12th, 2016
Tate Modern
Bankside, London SE1 9TG
http://www.tate.org.uk
Strange and familiar
Britain as Revealed by International Photographers
• Performing for the Camera at Tate Modern
We are perfoming for camera and “everybody has become an artist” with his smart phone, for sure ! But when did photographic space start to be a theater ? This is one of the main focus of Tate Modern’s great show gathering more than 500 images dealing with self-exposure, obsession for identity but also gender, time capsule and boundaries between the mediums.
This particular relashionship betwwen performance and photography is opening the links to sculpture, mouvement and extanded painting. The show opens with the iconic Klein’s leap orchested in Paris in the 1960s and captured by Harry Shunk and Janos Kender and goes until new pratices and avatars, like Romain Mader who document his romantic search for a bride.
Beuys, Warhol, Koons, Cindy Sherman but also Yayoi Kusama, Ai Wei wei, Sarah Lucas, Babette Mangolte offer a series of joyfull, provocative and touching images far beyound the starting point.
Performing for the Camera
Until June 12th, 2016
Tate Modern
Bankside, London SE1 9TG
http://www.tate.org.uk
• Paul Strand at Victoria & Albert
This is the first retrospective of the american in the UK over 40 years, gathering 200 objects of his entire career from his earlier Wall street portraits to the travers and landscapes out of America (Italy, Hebrides island, garden of Orgeval). His uncompromising style is revealed through different sections in a very scientific approach (becoming rather clinical one could say).
Organised by Philadelphia Museum of Art, in collaboration with Fundación MAPFRE and made possible by the Terra Foundation for American Art, the show is part of a great tour.
Paul Strand: Photography and Film for the 20th Century
Until July 3rd, 2016
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL
https://www.vam.ac.uk
Until July 3rd, 2016
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Rd, London SW7 2RL
https://www.vam.ac.uk
• Fox Talbot at Science Museum
The pioneer and national hero, William Henry Fox Talbot, above all a scientifist is celebrated in the right place. We discover along with his major achievements for fixing the image his talent for poetic atmosphere. His first photographic images of the capital are quite magical. His The Pencil of Nature,despite his comercial potential reveals fundamental more to come ambitions of photography into different territory. A great testimony !
Fox Talbot : Dawn of the Photograph
Until September 11th, 2016
Science Museum
Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2DD
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Until September 11th, 2016
Science Museum
Exhibition Rd, London SW7 2DD
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
• Deutsche Börse Prize at The Photographers’ gallery
The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation is a non-profit organisation for cultural activity focused on the collecting, exhibiting and promoting of contemporary photography established this year, coinciding with the Deutsche Börse’s twelfth year as supporter of the Prize.
The Photographers’ Gallery is the historical partner of the Prize. Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, and non-voting Chair of the Jury declared: The work of this year’s four nominees address some of the most urgent political and social issues of our time – from Laura El Tantawy’s moving account of the Arab Spring to Tobias Zielony’s repositioning of the European refugee crisis and Trevor Paglen’s exploration of the growing impact of military surveillance on our lives. Eric Kessel’s Unfinished Father provides a more personal narrative which examines the fragmentation of family roles and relationships in the face of a loved one’s debilitating illness. All these subjects are of great consequence and relevance today – and one which photography, as a multifarious and accessible medium, is uniquely suited to explore.
The Photographers’ Gallery is the historical partner of the Prize. Brett Rogers, Director of The Photographers’ Gallery, and non-voting Chair of the Jury declared: The work of this year’s four nominees address some of the most urgent political and social issues of our time – from Laura El Tantawy’s moving account of the Arab Spring to Tobias Zielony’s repositioning of the European refugee crisis and Trevor Paglen’s exploration of the growing impact of military surveillance on our lives. Eric Kessel’s Unfinished Father provides a more personal narrative which examines the fragmentation of family roles and relationships in the face of a loved one’s debilitating illness. All these subjects are of great consequence and relevance today – and one which photography, as a multifarious and accessible medium, is uniquely suited to explore.
The annual award of £30,000 rewards a living photographer, of any nationality, for a specific body of work in an exhibition or publication format, which is felt to have significantly contributed to photography in Europe between 1 October 2014 and 30 September 2015.
Also on display is Double Take: Drawing and Photography exploring the fascinating connexions between photography and drawing.
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2016
Until July 3rd, 2016
The Photographers’ gallery
16-18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW
http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk
Until July 3rd, 2016
The Photographers’ gallery
16-18 Ramillies St, London W1F 7LW
http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk
