Thursday, October 02, 2008

New Exhibitions at The Photographers Gallery, London





Exploring a rich dialogue between drawing and photography, Cast is a major exhibition of newly commissioned work by British artist Dryden Goodwin.

Featuring people travelling through the public spaces of London’s West End, Goodwin’s portraits catch strangers engrossed in private moments of quiet reflection. Physically intervening with the image through animation and drawing, the artist disrupts the stalled nature of the photograph, which he describes as a way of ‘thinking into the photograph’.


Caul 1 (detail), 2008 © Dryden Goodwin/Courtesy of the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery (London)


















In the heart of the West End, Soho has long been a haven for creativity and criminals, scandal and sex, and a source of inspiration for photographers.

Featuring the work of Jean Straker (UK, 1913 – 1984) and David Hurn (UK, b. 1934) alongside images from the Daily Herald Archive, these three fascinating archives document this bohemian area of Londo


All night jazz session at the Cy Laurie Club, Great Windmill Street, 31st March 1956.



















From the fashionably dressed women of the Bois de Boulogne to fantastic early flying machines, Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) kept a vivid photographic record of his life.

Print Sales revisits the work of one of the first photographers to be exhibited by The Photographers' Gallery, today considered one of the great figures of twentieth century photography

Bobsled race, Zissou and Madeleine Thibault, Rouzat, 1911 © Ministere de la Culture-France/ AAJHL

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