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
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/02/13/don-mccullin-tate-britain/
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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Cornelia Parker @ Tate Britain
Cornelia Parker (CBE, RA) is a very well-known and successful figure in British art. Born in 1956, she’s become famous for her ‘immersive’ i.e. BIG works. Above all she is a conceptual artist. What is conceptual art? According to the Tate website: Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work […]
Posted by Simon on October 10, 2022
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2022/10/10/cornelia-parker-tate-britain/
The Warrior’s Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience by Michael Ignatieff (1998) – 1
The family of nations is run largely by men with blood on their hands. (p.82) The main title and the picture on the cover are a bit misleading. They give the impression the entire book is going to be an investigation of the honour or value system of the many groups of soldiers, militias, paramilitaries […]
Posted by Simon on October 25, 2021
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2021/10/25/the-warriors-honour-ethnic-war-and-the-modern-conscience-michael-ignatieff/
Aubrey Beardsley @ Tate Britain
Aubrey Beardsley must be the most distinctive British artist. If you see any of his mature works, they are immediately recognisable and almost always deeply satisfying, their elegance of line and composition emphasised by the stylish use of huge areas of unmediated black or white, and the sophistication of his sensually charged portrayal of the […]
Posted by Simon on March 16, 2020
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2020/03/16/aubrey-beardsley-tate-britain/
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