WHAT'S ON
A selection of photography exhibitions on in London.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Photographs Gallery
The V&A has permanent displays of photography as well as a resource room and excellent website.
The Photographers' Gallery
Perspectives on Collage
Perspectives on Collage showcases eight approaches to collage. From conceptual to political and cultural critique, this show highlights the enduring relevance of collage.
18 January - 7 April 2013
Laura Letinsky: Ill Form and Void Full
This exhibition focuses on Letinsky’s new series, Ill Form and Void Full(2010-11), and marks a significant development in her work since 2009. Letinsky became increasingly interested in the artificiality of the photograph and its potential as a self-reflexive space. Here Letinsky has begun incorporating paper cut-outs from lifestyle magazines and art reproductions of food and tableware into her studio arrangements.
18 January - 7 April 2013
Geraldo de Barros: What RemainsGeraldo de Barros (1923-1998) is a key figure in Brazilian art and design. His engagement with photography took place during two intensive periods of experimentation at the beginning and end of his diverse career.
18 January - 7 April 2013
Photofusion
James Smith: Temporal Dislocation
Photofusion is pleased to announce the first London exhibition of James Smith who recently graduated from the Royal College of Art’s MA Photography course. A selection of eight large format images from his project Temporal Dislocation (2012) invite the viewer on a journey through the British Landscape. The exhibition is accompanied with text from Professor Alexander García Düttmann.
Smith uses photography to capture evidence of man’s contemporary and historical relationship with landscape, and the nuances of activity that are made manifest by edifices and constructions within it. From Brutalist architecture to towering stacks of hay, these dislocated forms of quasi ‘sculptures’ are evidential signs of power, class and labour
25 January – 8 March 2013
National Portrait Gallery
Man Ray: Portraits
This is the first major museum retrospective of this innovative and influential artist’s photographic portraits.
Focusing on his career in America and Paris between 1916 and 1968, the exhibition highlights Man Ray’s central position among the leading artists of the Dada and Surrealist movements and the significant range of contemporaries, celebrities, friends and lovers that he captured: from Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso to Kiki de Montparnasse, Lee Miller and Catherine Deneuve.
7 February - 27 May 2013
Haunch of Venison
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Messages
Haunch of Venison presents an exhibition by internationally renowned landscape photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper. For over thirty years Thomas Joshua Cooper has made landscape photographs in some of the most remote and isolated locations around the world. This exhibition brings together over twenty photographs, many not seen in public before, that showcase rare works from the beginning of his career.
1 February - 28 March 2013
Somerset House (Coming Soon)
Landmark: The Fields of Photography
This novel exhibition will be the first of its kind anywhere to show both the harsh, even brutal realities of the changing environment, as well as its enduring and stunning beauty, is a wide-ranging and ground-breaking exhibition featuring more than 70 of the world’s most highly regarded photographers from North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia, with many of them showcasing previously unseen and recently completed works.
14 March – 28 April 2013
Victoria and Albert Museum
Photographs Gallery
The V&A has permanent displays of photography as well as a resource room and excellent website.
The Photographers' Gallery
Perspectives on Collage
Perspectives on Collage showcases eight approaches to collage. From conceptual to political and cultural critique, this show highlights the enduring relevance of collage.
18 January - 7 April 2013
Laura Letinsky: Ill Form and Void Full
This exhibition focuses on Letinsky’s new series, Ill Form and Void Full(2010-11), and marks a significant development in her work since 2009. Letinsky became increasingly interested in the artificiality of the photograph and its potential as a self-reflexive space. Here Letinsky has begun incorporating paper cut-outs from lifestyle magazines and art reproductions of food and tableware into her studio arrangements.
18 January - 7 April 2013
Geraldo de Barros: What RemainsGeraldo de Barros (1923-1998) is a key figure in Brazilian art and design. His engagement with photography took place during two intensive periods of experimentation at the beginning and end of his diverse career.
18 January - 7 April 2013
Photofusion
James Smith: Temporal Dislocation
Photofusion is pleased to announce the first London exhibition of James Smith who recently graduated from the Royal College of Art’s MA Photography course. A selection of eight large format images from his project Temporal Dislocation (2012) invite the viewer on a journey through the British Landscape. The exhibition is accompanied with text from Professor Alexander García Düttmann.
Smith uses photography to capture evidence of man’s contemporary and historical relationship with landscape, and the nuances of activity that are made manifest by edifices and constructions within it. From Brutalist architecture to towering stacks of hay, these dislocated forms of quasi ‘sculptures’ are evidential signs of power, class and labour
25 January – 8 March 2013
National Portrait Gallery
Man Ray: Portraits
This is the first major museum retrospective of this innovative and influential artist’s photographic portraits.
Focusing on his career in America and Paris between 1916 and 1968, the exhibition highlights Man Ray’s central position among the leading artists of the Dada and Surrealist movements and the significant range of contemporaries, celebrities, friends and lovers that he captured: from Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso to Kiki de Montparnasse, Lee Miller and Catherine Deneuve.
7 February - 27 May 2013
Haunch of Venison
Thomas Joshua Cooper: Messages
Haunch of Venison presents an exhibition by internationally renowned landscape photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper. For over thirty years Thomas Joshua Cooper has made landscape photographs in some of the most remote and isolated locations around the world. This exhibition brings together over twenty photographs, many not seen in public before, that showcase rare works from the beginning of his career.
1 February - 28 March 2013
Somerset House (Coming Soon)
Landmark: The Fields of Photography
This novel exhibition will be the first of its kind anywhere to show both the harsh, even brutal realities of the changing environment, as well as its enduring and stunning beauty, is a wide-ranging and ground-breaking exhibition featuring more than 70 of the world’s most highly regarded photographers from North and South America, Africa, Europe and Asia, with many of them showcasing previously unseen and recently completed works.
14 March – 28 April 2013