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/
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/
John Opie @ Tate Britain
Tate Britain is labyrinthine enough to have half a dozen side rooms and spaces where it mounts small (and sometimes not so small) ‘spotlight’ exhibitions, focusing on a particular topic or artist. In a modest room off the main atrium, little more than a glorified corridor, Tate Britain is hosting a small but beautifully formed […]
Posted by Simon on November 25, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/11/25/john-opie-tate-britain/
