London Photo Exhibitions: Man Ray & Sebastião Salgado
- At June 09, 2013
- By John
- In EOS 1Ds Mark III, Exhibition, Man Ray, Photographer, Sebastião Salgado
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This last weekend I spent 24 hours down in the capital primarily to attend Eric Clapton’s last night at the Royal Albert Hall. Not one for spending much time browsing London shops these days, to make good use of my free time I looked to see if there were any photography exhibitions of interest. Two caught my eye: Man Ray Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, and Sebastião Salgado: Genesis at the Natural History Museum.
Read More»An Exhibition of Photographs by Ansel Adams
- At March 19, 2013
- By John
- In Ansel Adams, Exhibition, Photographer, Review
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Ansel Adams: Photography from the Mountains to the Sea
“Ansel is important to us because he was a good artist; in his best days he was a terrific artist” ~ John Szarkowski, photographer & curator
If you browse any book about “icons of photography“, from photography’s inception to the current day, you’ll be hard pressed to find any mention of pure landscape photographers. It seems such a sad state of affairs that photographs of our beautiful and amazing planet are held in such low esteem by the so called photographic hierarchy. The one exception of course is Ansel Adams.
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