Tag: Photography

  • After the End of History: British Working-Class Photography 1989-2024

    From the northern soul scene to farmers and a world boxing champ, photographers have captured images of their own communities, at the same time calling out middle-class assumptions of what constitutes good taste

  • Now You See Us. Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920

    Monumental and momentous, this exhibition does away with any lingering notion that there have been ‘no great women artists’, offering as evidence more than 100 names and 200 works

  • Watch! Watch! Watch! Henri Cartier-Bresson

    This comprehensive retrospective of the French master of street photography Henri Cartier-Bresson focuses on his political side while also presenting a wider perspective on his work chronicling the 1930s to the 1970s

  • Roger Mayne: Youth

    Roger Mayne’s genuine curiosity about people shines through in his photographs of kids playing on the streets of 1950s and 60s Britain and intimate shots of his family

  • Sandra George

    George’s social-documentary photography is the standout exhibition of this year’s Glasgow International, giving agency once more to the less privileged among whom she worked

  • Zanele Muholi

    Anger, hurt, vulnerability, love, togetherness, celebration, passion … South African visual activist Zanele Muholi captures and evinces every imaginable emotion at high intensity

  • Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider

    A long-overdue exhibition exploring the friendships and relationships, shared concerns and disagreements between the expressionist artists associated with the Blue Rider

  • George Hoyningen-Huene: Photography, Fashion, Film – book review

    This long overdue look at the life and work of Hoyningen-Huene, a master of photography, combines intriguing insights into the Paris fashion world of the 1930s and beyond, with his pictures of timeless beauty, previously unpublished photographs and private letters

  • Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World

    This major retrospective celebrates the work of a man whose atmospheric shots of New York street scenes made him one of the most important photographers of the postwar period

  • Chronorama: Photographic Treasures of the 20th Century

    Highlights from the golden age of photography, produced for fashion magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, lead us on a stunning journey through fashion and social change from 1910 to the late 1970s