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
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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
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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
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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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Manuel Álvarez Bravo: Photopoetry @ the Photographers’ Gallery
There are three main exhibition spaces at the Photographers Gallery, on the 2nd, 4th and 5th floors. The second and fourth floors are often used to hold two parts of the same show – they are currently hosting the exhibition of Latin American photography, Urban Impulses, which is split into two parts, while the fifth […]
Posted by Simon on July 26, 2019
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TPG New Talent 19 @ the Photographers’ Gallery
TPG New Talent TPG New Talent (TNT) was launched in 2019 by The Photographers’ Gallery as a way to identify and champion under-recognised or emerging UK-based artists and photographers who use photography as a key part of their practice. It continues a tradition of programmes designed by TPG to support practitioners and confirms an ongoing commitment to ensuring new […]
Posted by Simon on July 25, 2019
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Sleepless by France-Lise McGurn @ Tate Britain
Art Now is a series of free exhibitions at Tate Britain showcasing emerging talent and highlighting new developments in British art. It is generally held in the big exhibition room on your right, next to the rotunda, once you’ve gone up the stairs and through the main entrance to Tate Britain. This big, white, well-lit […]
Posted by Simon on July 20, 2019
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