Exhibition: ‘Pieter Hugo: Kin’ at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris

Exhibition dates: 14th January – 26th April 2015     Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976) Green Point Common, Capetown 2013 © Pieter Hugo Courtesy Stevenson Gallery, Capetown/Johannesburg and Yossi Milo, New York     At this moment in time, I believe that Pieter Hugo is one of the best photographers in the world. Approaching photography with … Continue reading “Exhibition: ‘Pieter Hugo: Kin’ at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris”

Exhibition: ‘Pieter Hugo: This Must Be The Place – Selected Works 2003-2012’ at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest

Exhibition dates: 24th May – 11th August 2013     Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976) The Hyena Men of Abuja, Nigeria 2005 © Pieter Hugo Courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town/Johannesburg and Yossi Milo, New York     I have not seen enough of the other series of Pieter Hugo to make an informed decision, but work … Continue reading “Exhibition: ‘Pieter Hugo: This Must Be The Place – Selected Works 2003-2012’ at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest”

Exhibition: ‘Pieter Hugo: This must be the place’ at The Hague Museum of Photography, The Netherlands

Exhibition dates: 3rd March – 20th May 2012     Pieter Hugo (South African, b. 1976) Mallam Mantari Lamal with Mainasara, Abuja 2005-2007  From the series The Hyena & Other Men © Courtesy of Stevenson Gallery, Kaapstad / Yossi Milo, New York     Sexy, scary and very sad. The hand of the monkey Clear on the … Continue reading “Exhibition: ‘Pieter Hugo: This must be the place’ at The Hague Museum of Photography, The Netherlands”

Review: ‘Photography: Real & Imagined’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne Part 2

Exhibition dates: 13th October 2023 – 4th February 2024     Paul Strand (American 1890-1976, France 1951-1976) Still life, pear and bowls, Twin Lakes, Connecticut 1916, printed 1983 From the Paul Strand: The Formative Years 1914-1917 portfolio photogravure National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Purchased, 1984 Public domain     “I feel that photographs can either … Continue reading “Review: ‘Photography: Real & Imagined’ at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne Part 2”

Exhibition: ‘Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Exhibition dates: 17th December 2019 – 8th March 2020     Weegee (Arthur Fellig) (American born Austria, 1899-1968) [Calypso] about 1944; before 1946 Gelatin silver print 26.2 x 33.3cm (10 5/16 x 13 1/8 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles © International Center of Photography     Imagine having these photographs in your … Continue reading “Exhibition: ‘Unseen: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles”

Exhibition: ‘Apartheid and After’ at Huis Marseille – Museum for Photography, Amsterdam

Exhibition dates: 15th March – 8th June 2014 Curators: Els Barents, David Goldblatt Artists: David Goldblatt met Paul Alberts, Pieter Hugo, Santu Mofokeng, Sabelo Mlangeni, Zanele Muholi, Jo Ractliffe, Michael Subotzky, Guy Tillim, Graeme Williams and others, and the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg       Santu Mofokeng (South African, 1956-2020) Sunflowers harvest, Vaalrand farm, … Continue reading “Exhibition: ‘Apartheid and After’ at Huis Marseille – Museum for Photography, Amsterdam”

Text: ‘Facile, Facies, Facticity’ by Dr Marcus Bunyan; Exhibition: ‘About Face: Contemporary Portraiture’ at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City

Exhibition dates: 9th August 2013 – 19th January 2014     Rachel Herman (American) Hannah and Tim 2007 Inkjet print (printed 2012) Gift of the Hall Family Foundation     Facile, Facies, Facticity   “The structure of presentation – point-of-view and frame – is intimately implicated in the reproduction of ideology (the ‘frame of mind’ of … Continue reading “Text: ‘Facile, Facies, Facticity’ by Dr Marcus Bunyan; Exhibition: ‘About Face: Contemporary Portraiture’ at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City”

Exhibition: ‘Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part II’ at The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany

Exhibition dates: 9th June 9 2013 – 17th May 2015     Sammy Baloji (Congolese, b. 1978) Untitled 7 2006 From Mémoires     This is the last in my trilogy of postings on exhibitions titled Distance and Desire which have featured African art from The Walther Collection, this time focusing on contemporary art. It is quite instructive … Continue reading “Exhibition: ‘Distance and Desire: Encounters with the African Archive Part II’ at The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany”

International artists/exhibitions by name and posting

Numbers ‘2020 VISION: PHOTOGRAPHS, 1840s-1860s’ Exhibition: ‘2020 Vision: Photographs, 1840s-1860s’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 2019 – December 2020 ’68. POP AND PROTEST’ Exhibition: ’68. Pop and Protest’ at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG), October 2018 – March 2019 A ‘A BALLAD OF LOVE AND DEATH’ Exhibition: ‘A … Continue reading “International artists/exhibitions by name and posting”