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The Kids Are Alright

Well, here is a rare and rather enjoyable thing.  I’m used to writing about pictures whose author is known, whose subject is known, whose date is known, whose cause is known, whose customer is known or any or all of those things.  The experience starts as that which is familiar to anyone who has finger-walked through shoeboxes of old post-cards, or cartes-de-visites or stereos : here’s something…

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#Adolphe Braun #Alsace #Bisson Frères #Charles Aubry #Countess of Castiglione #Daniel Dolfuss-Ausset #Diane Arbus #Ernest Lacan #Franco-Prussian War #James Hyman Gallery #Joseph Wilson Swan #Media Business #Metropolitan Museum #Otto von Bismarck #Pantoscope #Pierre-Louis Pierson #Portrait #Roland Belgrave #Sedan - Battle of #Siege of Paris #Wooodburytype

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The Quiet Resistance of Max Penson

Collective Gymnastics on Ladders, by Max Penson, 1930s With PhotoLondon opening this week, I found myself remembering that great photography was shown at Somerset House before PhotoLondon was ever a thing.  There used to be housed in the Embankment Galleries at the lower level the great hoard of the Gilbert Collection, since then moved to the Victoria & Albert Museum.  The Gilbert Collection,…

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#Gilbert Collection #Max Penson #Moscow House of Photography #Olga Sviblova #Roman Abramovich #Somerset House #Soviet Photography #USSR Under Construction #Uzbek Photography

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Images for Hugh, by Matthew Dalziel

This is one series that has been swirling lazily around in my mind for so many years that it’s now obviously a part of my mental scaffolding.  I first saw them when I worked at the Photographers’ Gallery and I was moved by them.  So the series goes straight into my virtual collection, and not just a single picture.  I absolutely love them and have loved them consistently, so I’m having all of…

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#Colour Photography #In Memoriam #Matthew Dalziel #Mysterious Coincidences #The Photographers&039; Gallery

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Passing the Polygraph - Books of Collections

It’s been quite a time that I’ve been obscurely dissatisfied with ordinary photographic monographs. I suppose I shouldn’t complain: I’ve written texts for dozens of them, usually as an introduction before the pictures, and usually found much to like in the pictures concerned. No doubt the good ones still keep coming; the great ones, too, and probably at the same very slow rate as ever. But I’m…

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#Aaron Siskind #Alice Neel #Ann Kuriakin #Beaumont Newhall #Book Fairs #Books of Collections #Bruce Bernard #David Seymour ("Chim") #Eastman House #Gisèle Freund #Gjon Mili #Harry Lunn #Helmut Gernsheim #Henri Matisse #Henry Guttmann #Henry Holmes Smith #Henry M. Buhl #Hill & Adamson #Howard Greenberg #Jacques-Henri Lartigue #Jeffrey Fraenkel #Joachim Bonnemaison #Joel-Peter Witkin #Julia Van Haaften #Julien Levy #Library of Birmingham #Maison Européenne de la Photographie #Manuel Alvarez Bravo #Marta Braun #Matthieu Pernot

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Viral Landscape by Helen Chadwick

Helen Chadwick from the Viral Landscapes,1989 I don’t remember when I first saw Helen Chadwick’s Viral Landscapes – I suspect I went to the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford and saw them there in 1989 – but I do know that I have never forgotten them.   I think there were only five of these extraordinary pictures in the series, although I surprise myself now by finding what seem to be variants…

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#Art Photography #Chelsea School of Art #CSM #David Buckland #Goldsmiths #Helen Chadwick #Hiroshi Sugimoto #HIV #Landscape Photography #Marina Warner #Mixed Media #Modern Art Oxford #Royal College of Art #Susan Derges #Thomas Joshua Cooper

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Music to Our Ears

David Williams has a retrospective book out, covering many fine series of photographs and allowing us to see big arcs in his long career. Reviewed on francishodgson.com

Dreaming Difference, by David WilliamsScottish Photographic Artists #2, Published by the Scottish Society for the History of Photography and Edinburgh University Press 2023.  David Williams, ‘Is’: Ecstasies #V David Williams, ‘Is’: Ecstasies #VI David Williams, ‘Is’: Ecstasies #XIV The first of David Williams’ series that I came across was ‘Is’: Ecstasies I-XXII.  They were in the Print Room…

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#Andre Kertesz #Chet Baker #David Hockney #David Williams #Difference & Sameness #House & Garden (Magazine) #Lee Friedlander #Markéta Luskačová #Minor White #Oscar Peterson #Paul Caponigro #Photography and Music #Polaroid #Richard Misrach #Roy de Carava #Slow Photography #The Photographers&039; Gallery #The Sound That I Saw #Vu (Magazine)

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#Erwin Olaf #photography