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 […]
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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
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
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I Am Now You – Mother by Marcia Michael @ Autograph ABP
Autograph ABP is a charity that works internationally in photography and film, cultural identity, race, representation and human rights. ABP stands for the Association of Black Photographers. Originally based in Brixton, ABP moved to a new, purpose-built gallery and offices at Rivington Place in Shoreditch in 2007. It is here that the ABP gallery is currently hosting […]
Posted by Simon on June 22, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/06/22/i-am-now-you-mother-marcia-michael/
Devotion: A Portrait of Loretta by Franklyn Rodgers @ Autograph ABP
Autograph ABP is a charity that works internationally in photography and film, cultural identity, race, representation and human rights. ABP stands for the Association of Black Photographers. Originally based in Brixton, ABP moved to a new, purpose-built gallery and offices at Rivington Place in Shoreditch in 2007. It is here that the ABP gallery is currently hosting […]
Posted by Simon on June 21, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/06/21/devotion-portrait-of-loretta-franklyn-rodgers-abp/
Shirley Baker: Personal Collection @ the Photographers’ Gallery
Three years ago the Photographers’ Gallery held the first ever solo exhibition of acclaimed street photographer Shirley Baker (1932-2014). Now, downstairs in the Print Sales Gallery of the Photographers’ Gallery, for the next month, there’s a small display of 27 rare vintage and lifetime prints from Baker’s own collection, each one stunning in its own […]
Posted by Simon on June 20, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/06/20/shirley-baker-the-photographers-gallery/
Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive @ the Photographers’ Gallery
Silver Lake Drive is a major new exhibition at the Photographers’ Gallery, the first mid-career survey of American photographer and filmmaker, Alex Prager (b.1979). The exhibition stretches over two floors, tracing Prager’s career especially over the last ten years, bringing together 40 photographs and all six of her films to date. Be warned: I loathed this […]
Posted by Simon on June 19, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/alex-prager-silver-lake-drive-the-photographers-gallery/
Tish Murtha: Works 1976 – 1991 @ the Photographers’ Gallery
This is an absolutely brilliant exhibition, full of fantastically acute, beautifully shot and desperately moving photos of urban poverty in the England of the 1970s and 80s. Patricia ‘Tish’ Murtha, born in 1956, was surely a street and documentary photographer of genius. Look at these photos! As inspired, vivid and alive as her chaotic, unpredictable […]
Posted by Simon on June 18, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/06/18/tish-murtha-works-1976-1991-photographers-gallery/
Work in Process @ the Photographers’ Gallery
The Photographers’ Gallery is a real Aladdin’s cave with exhibitions spread over floors 3, 4, and 5, as well as a funky café on the ground floor. Downstairs in the basement there is an excellent shop selling not only all kinds of books about photography but also cameras and film. Next door to it is […]
Posted by Simon on June 2, 2018
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2018/06/02/work-in-process-the-photographers-gallery/
