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. (Shaped by War, page 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 […]
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/
Photography reviews
Autograph ABP The Island by Mónica de Miranda (October 2022) Purdah: The Sacred Cloth by Arpita Shah (November 2018) Liberty / Diaspora by Omar Victor Diop (November 2018) I Am Now You / Mother by Marcia Michael (June 2018) Devotion: A Portrait of Loretta by Franklyn Rodgers (June 2018) Barbican Masculinities: Liberation through Photography @ the Barbican – 1 […]
Posted by Simon on March 10, 2023
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/03/10/photography-reviews/
Exhibitions and art reviews
Autograph Island by Mónica de Miranda (October 2022) Lina Iris Viktor (January 2020) Purdah – The Sacred Cloth by Arpita Shah (November 2018) Liberty / Diaspora by Omar Victor Diop (November 2018) I Am Now You – Mother by Marcia Michael (June 2018) Devotion: A Portrait of Loretta by Franklyn Rodgers (June 2018) Barbican Postwar […]
Posted by Simon on March 8, 2023
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/03/08/exhibitions-art-reviews/
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/
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