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Exhibition: ‘Daidō Moriyama: Tokyo Photographs’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art
Exhibition dates: February 28th 2009 – July 31st 2009 Daido Moriyama ‘Untitled (Rose)’ 1984 Daido Moriyama ‘Viaduct 1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 1981′ “Daidō Moriyama is one of the most important and...
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Exhibition: ‘Metamorphosis of Japan after the War: Photography 1945-1964′ at...
Exhibition dates: 9th March – 17th June 2012 . The joy of the discharged soldier (upon survival); the regimentation of the market place; the inquisitiveness of youth. The blackness (incineration) of...
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Exhibition: ‘Fracture: Daido Moriyama’ at the Los Angeles County Museum of...
Exhibition dates: 7th April – 31st July 2012 . How can we put this. The early black and white photographs are magnificent; the later colour photographs pedestrian and mundane. It is quite amazing how...
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Exhibition: ‘Before Color: William Eggleston’ at Nederlands Fotomuseum,...
Exhibition dates: 16th June – 26th August 2012 . . “As these rediscovered prints reveal, the man who made colour photography into an artform worked brilliantly in monochrome – and his eye for...
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Review: ‘Light Works’ at NGV International, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 23rd March – 16th September 2012 . “Light is a scientific fact, a metaphorical construct and even a spiritual force. It is considered an agent of truth, authenticity and revelation...
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Exhibition: ‘William Klein + Daido Moriyama’ at the Tate Modern, London
Exhibition dates: 10th October 2012 – 20th January 2013 . Many thankx to the Tate Modern for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version...
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Exhibition: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath’ at...
Exhibition dates: 11th November 2012 – 3rd February 2013 . Part 4 of the biggest posting on one exhibition that I have ever undertaken on Art Blart! As befits the gravity of the subject matter this...
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Exhibition: ‘Hiroshi Sugimoto. Revolution’ at Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Exhibition dates: 25th October 2012 – 10th February 10 2013 . “Water and air. So very commonplace are these substances, they hardly attract attention – and yet they vouchsafe our very existence. The...
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Exhibition: ‘Concrete – Photography and Architecture’ at Fotomuseum...
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 20th May 2013 . When creating this blog, so much of my time is spent cleaning up clearly inadequate media images, an example of which can be seen below. I have become very...
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Exhibition: ‘Japan’s Modern Divide: The Photographs of Hiroshi Hamaya and...
Exhibition dates: 26th March – 25th August 2013 . According to the press release, “Hamaya focused inward toward rural life on the back coast of Japan, [while] Yamamoto found inspiration in the art of...
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Exhibition: ‘Yasumasa Morimura: Theater of the Self’ at The Andy Warhol...
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2013 – 12th January 2014 . Cindy Sherman, eat your actress out… A fascinating, erudite analysis of the difference between Edouard Manet’s Olympia and Yasumasa Morimura’s...
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Exhibition: ‘Hiroshi Sugimoto: Past Tense’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty...
Exhibition dates: 4th February – 8th June 2014 I loved Sugimoto’s time lapse movie screens, where the exact length of a movie was captured by the open lens of the camera, the substance of time and...
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Exhibition: ‘Intractable and Untamed: Documentary Photography around 1979′ at...
Exhibition dates: 28th June – 5th October 2014 Curator: Barbara Engelbach This looks like a very interesting exhibition, one which “examines documentary photographs dating from around 1979 in terms...
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Exhibition: ‘In Focus: Play’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center,...
Exhibition dates: 23rd December 2014 – 10th May 2015 The J. Paul Getty Museum always puts on the most interesting photography exhibitions. This looks to be no exception. Marcus . Many thankx to the...
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Exhibition: ‘Ishiuchi Miyako: Postwar Shadows’ at the J. Paul Getty Museum,...
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2015 – 21st February 2016 Curator: Amanda Maddox, assistant curator, Department of Photographs, the J. Paul Getty Museum. This is a compelling body of work from...
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Exhibition: ‘The Younger Generation: Contemporary Japanese Photography’ at...
Exhibition dates: 6th October 2015 – 21st February 2016 Curator: Amanda Maddox, assistant curator in the Museum’s Department of Photographs I’ll leave you to make up your own mind about these works...
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Exhibition: ‘Ken Domon: Master of Japanese Realism’ at the Museo dell’Ara...
Exhibition dates: 27th May – 18th September 2016 Social Realism I love most Japanese photography of the post-war period (1950s-1970s) and this artist’s work is no exception. What a absolute master of...
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Exhibition: ‘I-Photo. Japanese Photography 1960-1970 from the Collection’ at...
Exhibition dates: 21st April – 8th July 2018 Curator: Christiane Kuhlmann, Curator Photography and Media Art; with Andrea Lehner-Hagwood, Curatorial Assistant, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Works by...
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Exhibition: ‘Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery...
Exhibition dates: 29th May 2016 – 2nd January 2017 Curators: Sarah Greenough, senior curator, department of photographs, and Philip Brookman, consulting curator, department of photographs, both...
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Exhibition: ‘The New Woman Behind the Camera’ at the National Gallery of Art,...
Exhibition dates: 31st October, 2021 – 30th January, 2022 Curator: The exhibition is curated by Andrea Nelson, associate curator in the department of photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington....
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