This is an enormous exhibition of over 250 photos by famous war photographer Don McCullin. A working class lad who left school at 15 and got interested in cameras during his national service, the show opens with the first photograph he sold (in 1958 a policeman was stabbed by members of a gang in Finsbury […]
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Don McCullin @ Tate Britain
Posted by Simon on February 13, 2019
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Don McCullin
This is a beautifully produced book, a huge coffee-table format feast of Don McCullin’s very best photographs, along with a generous helping of many less well-known ones. War photos McCullin is well known as one of the great war photographers of the second half of the twentieth century, having been close up to conflict across […]
Posted by Simon on March 9, 2017
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2017/03/09/don-mccullin/
Shaped by War by Don McCullin (2010)
I felt I was in the right place at the right time. I had an almost magnetic emotional sense of direction pulling me to extraordinary places. (p.37) In 2010 the Imperial War Museum held an exhibition of the war-related photos of Don McCullin. This is the large-format, coffee table book of the exhibition. It features […]
Posted by Simon on March 7, 2017
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/shaped-by-war-don-mccullin/
Unreasonable Behaviour by Don McCullin (2015)
‘I needed to be at home. I needed the peace of my own country, England. Yet when I go home and sleep in my own bed, I soon become restless. I am not shaped for a house. I grew up in harsh surroundings. I have slept under tables in battles for days on end. There […]
Posted by Simon on March 3, 2017
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2017/03/03/unreasonable-behaviour-don-mccullin/
People Power: Fighting for Peace @ Imperial War Museum London
O silly and unlucky are the brave, Who tilt against the world’s enormous wrong. Their serious little efforts will not save Themselves or us. The enemy is strong. O silly and unlucky are the brave. (W.H. Auden, 1937) It’s the centenary of the Imperial War Museum, set up in the same year as the Battle […]
Posted by Simon on March 26, 2017
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Franz West @ Tate Modern
Franz West (1947-2012) is best known for his unconventional objects and sculptures, installations and furniture work, which often require an involvement of the audience. This is a big exhibition, taking up no fewer than ten rooms at Tate Modern and the overwhelming impression you get is that West relished amateurishness, the cack-handed, graceless elevation of […]
Posted by Simon on May 21, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/franz-west-tate-modern/
Jessa Fairbrother: Constellations and Coordinates @ the Photographers’ Gallery
If you visit the Photographer’s Gallery (just off Oxford Street, in central London) the main exhibitions on the upper floors are well signposted, but it’s easy to overlook the existence of the print room exhibition space down in the basement. Here they display works by up-and-coming photographers which you can not only admire but buy. […]
Posted by Simon on March 29, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/jessa-fairbrother-constellations-and-coordinates-the-photographers-gallery/
Dave Heath: Dialogues with Solitudes @ the Photographers’ Gallery
‘The fact that I never had a family, a place or a story that defined me, inspired a need in me to join the community of mankind. I did so by inventing a poetic form linking this community, at least symbolically, in my imagination, through this form.’ (Dave Heath) This is the first major UK […]
Posted by Simon on March 28, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/03/28/dave-heath-dialogues-with-solitudes-the-photographers-gallery/
