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Like A Toothbrush, It Does the Job – Don McCullin
Sir Don McCullin – Homeless Irishman Near Spitalfields, 1969 Sir Don McCullin was the marquee name at the 2016 edition of PhotoLondon. (He wasn’t knighted, as a matter of fact until the New Year...
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Curators on Skates
View of the V&A by Bolas & Co., c.1909, V&A E.1128-1989 It’s not often, in the cash-starved world of UK photographic institutions, that there is major good news to celebrate. But yesterday...
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Full of Mind
“Of Mr.Rejlander’s pictures (for such we may justly call them), we have no hesitation in saying that they are full of beauty and full of mind.” Anonymous reviewer in the Art Journal for 1868 Oscar...
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Pinch & Swipe
From the series Battlefields, by Jos Jansen A number of themes absolutely central to photography meet in this wonderful series of pictures by the artist Jos Jansen. He calls them Battlefields. As often...
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The Sort of Thing They Like
Nigel Shafran, from Visitor Figures. Not selected for the V&A’s Annual Review “For those who like that sort of thing,” said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, “That is the sort of thing...
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Luke 16:1 – 16:2
There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an...
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Who Speaks for Photography?
At the ceremony on 18 September 2012 to mark the start of construction by which the former Commonwealth Institute in High Street Kensington will become a new Design Museum, Sir Terence Conran used the...
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Making It Up Is So Very Hard To Do
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. Woody Allen, Deconstructing Harry It may be eccentric to draw attention to a show that has been open some time; all I...
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30 and Out? The National Media Museum Under Threat
Work in Progress at the Media Space in London. The Media Space was planned to improve the visibility of one of the great photographic collections in the world.Photographed by Kate Elliott There is now...
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Robert Brownjohn’s Street Level Series
Robert Brownjohn. From the Street Level series, 1961.Victoria & Albert Museum One of the pleasing things about being interested in photographs is that it is really perfectly OK to admit to not...
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Media Space at The Science Museum
I don’t normally simply cross-post here from material I have written elsewhere.But here is a piece which might well have appeared first on these pages. I apologise to those who are subscribed to both...
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Fox Talbot – Buy Now While Stocks Last
On 11 December the National Heritage Memorial Fund Trustees meet to discuss the possible acquisition by the Bodleian Library in Oxford of one of the last major archives of material by the British...
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Sir Cecil Beaton – Earning a Royalty
The Victoria and Albert Museum has put on a show of Sir Cecil Beaton’s royal portraits as a contribution to the diamond jubilee celebration of HM the Queen, and it has been met with predictable...
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Halls of Fame
Two portraits of G.F.Watts by Julia Margaret Cameron I recently had occasion (as they say in police reports) to visit the Watts Gallery, in Surrey, outside London. The Watts Gallery is dedicated to...
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