Bodleian Library launches £2.2m bid to stop Fox Talbot archive going overseas
11 December 2012 • Mark Westall
Inventor and pioneering photographer left ‘unique’ collection of images, experiment notes and correspondences
Tag: Photography
Art Against Knives Launch new online art gallery.
26 November 2012 • Mark Westall
Following the success of their gallery at Boxpark, Shoreditch ART AGAINST KNIVES have launched an online platform selling original artwork, prints, photography and T-shirts created by established, emerging and young artists.
Klein and Moriyama at London’s Tate Modern – reviews roundup
22 November 2012 • Mark Westall
The Observer’s deputy picture editor roundsup reviews of Tate Modern’s retrospectives of photographer and film-maker William Klein and Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama
Brigitte Niedermair – The Present at MEAD CARNEY Private View: Wednesday 21st November
21 November 2012 • Mark Westall
MEAD CARNEY is to present the solo exhibition Brigitte Niedermair – The Present, curated by Elena Re.
Light from the Middle East offers a true reflection of a complex region
14 November 2012 • Mark Westall
A new exhibition at London’s V&A offers insights from within cultures that are more often photographed and reported from the outside
Seduced By Art: Photography Past and Present – review
4 November 2012 • Mark Westall
National Gallery, London
Seduced By Art: can photography and fine art hang together?
31 October 2012 • Mark Westall
A new exhibition at London’s National Gallery hopes to prompt a conversation between photos and their feted inspiration. Does it work? Jonathan Jones has his doubts
Photography exhibitions guide – the three to see this week
27 October 2012 • Mark Westall
The Observer’s deputy picture editor, Jim Powell, rounds up reviews of three exhibitions this week: William Eggleston, Bruce Davidson and Graciela Iturbide at the Barbican, August Sander at New Walk Gallery, Leicester, and Ewen Spencer at the White Cloth Gallery, Leeds
Photography: is it art?
20 October 2012 • Mark Westall
From the earliest days of photography, practitioners took their inspiration from paintings. But as a new exhibition at London’s National Gallery shows, the link went both ways
Jay Mark Johnson Photography
16 October 2012 • Mark Westall
California-based artist Jay Mark Johnsoneuro produces these great imagesthey using a specially built slit camera that emphasizes time over space…. Read More
Thomas Schütte: men, monsters and self-portraits
25 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Thomas Schütte’s sculptures are on the loose in a London park, while his unsettling portraits hang in a gallery nearby. It’s a great day out – but you wouldn’t want to meet them in a bar
SIGNATURE ART PRIZE INTERVIEW #1 EMILY MACINNES
17 September 2012 • Ben Austin
Rewan, 2012, medium format photographic scans, 6” x 4.5” FAD will be bringing you a series of interviews with the… Read More
Antonio Marguet ‘Exotic Juicy Tutti Frutti’ at Other Criteria September 6th 2012
5 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Each photograph takes its title from a variety of car air fresheners, named extravagantly to stimulate the imagination.
Deutsche Börse photography prize won by John Stezaker
4 September 2012 • Mark Westall
Collagist who cuts up other people’s pictures in the name of his art wins prestigious £30,000 award
Vee Speers The Birthday Party at The Little Black Gallery Art Opening Tuesday 4th September
4 September 2012 • Mark Westall
This is the first commercial UK exhibition of the critically acclaimed artist and photographer Vee Speers and her infamous series The Birthday Party.
Artist Opportunity: The Beers Lambert Award for emerging art $5000 prize Deadline this Monday
31 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Artist Opportunity: The Beers Lambert Award for emerging art $5000 prize Deadline this Monday
The fake photographs that predate Photoshop
31 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Tiny soldiers, Yorkshire fairies, an unlikely meeting between Lenin and Stalin: nothing you see here is what it seems. Jonathan Jones previews a fascinating exhibition of photo fakery
8×10 Large Format instant film from Polaroid TO MAKE COMEBACK
23 August 2012 • Mark Westall
First test photos premiere at The Impossible Project Space NYC from August 23 – September 24, 2012.
Still Time to see: UNCOMMON GROUND group show of Contemporary photography at Flowers Gallery
14 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Inspired by the work of Keith Arnatt and Gabriel Orozco,this exhibition aims to obscure the intersection between photographs of observed reality and artistically altered reality.
Through Edward Hopper’s eyes: in search of an artist’s seaside inspiration
12 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Gail Albert Halaban follows in the footsteps of the great American artist, photographing the elegant houses he painted almost 100 years ago from the same vantage point
Review: Moments of Reprieve: Representing Loss in Contemporary Photography
8 August 2012 • Mark Westall
Curated by David Birkin and Louisa Adam, Moments of Reprieve explores the idea of loss in contemporary photography.