Aaron Siskind
Bahia 170, 1984
PhotoXchange
Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonExhibition!
13 October 2010 - 20 February 2011
Floris Neusüss, ‘Untitled, (Körperfotogramm), Berlin, 1962’, 1962. Collection Chistian Diener, Berlin, © Courtesy of Floris Neusüss
The essence of photography lies in its seemingly magical ability to fix shadows on light-sensitive surfaces. Normally, this requires a camera. Shadow Catchers, however, presents the work of five international contemporary artists - Floris Neusüss, Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller and Adam Fuss - who work without a camera. Instead, they create images on photographic paper by casting shadows and manipulating light, or by chemically treating the surface of the paper.
Images made with a camera imply a documentary role. In contrast, camera-less photographs show what has never really existed. They are also always ‘an original’ because they are not made from a negative. Encountered as fragments, traces, signs, memories or dreams, they leave room for the imagination, transforming the world of objects into a world of visions.
Exhibition
Steve McCurry - Retrospective
26th June 2010 - 17th October 2010
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is the sole UK venue for a retrospective of the work of American photo-journalist Steve McCurry, the man who is responsible for some of the world’s most famous photographs.
Compelling, unforgettable and moving, McCurry’s images are unique: un-stylized and unopposed snapshots of people that reveal the universality of human emotion. His coverage of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980’s, when he crossed the border disguised as a local with rolls of film sown into his clothes, won him the Robert Capa Gold Medal for Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad Showing Courage and Enterprise. He has also won numerous awards including the National Press Photographers’ Association award, Magazine Photographer of the Year and an unprecedented four first prizes in the World Press Photo contest.
26 June - 17 October 2010
Waterhall
Admission Free
Exhibition
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009
16 July - 12 September 2010
The New Art Gallery Walsall
Magnum - The world's premier photojournalism agency
Abbas. Indonesia Jakarta. 1989
Sophie Calle EXHIBITION
Talking to Strangers
Whitechapel Gallery, London
16 October 2009-3 January 201
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/sophie-calle-talking-to-strangers
Gareth McConnell
Family. A 21st Century Love Poem
Meditation 2006
35mm slide dissolve, dimensions variable
You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. you need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet , still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a writer and a poet - he had the words… those beautiful, beautiful words. To paraphrase Lewis Hine, my words don’t come - so I take pictures. I wanted to compose a poem though, a Love Poem, and I decided I would do this with photographs. I took Franz up on his advice and didn’t leave the house, I waited quietly and patiently to gather my pictorial words to form the stanzas of my visual poem.
Gareth McConnell
Samuel Fosso
From the series Tati Self-portraits
1997
Cibrachrome prints
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/samuel-fosso.shtml
Interview with the director of a BBC documentary on Fosso - The Many Faces of Samuel Fosso
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4449235,00.html
