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The best photographic exhibition you have seen?
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Dear fellow Lightstalkers,
I am currently doing research for my Master’s degree, on history of photographic exhibitions. As a result, I am curious to know what you see as a landmark photographic exhibition that you have seen. If you care to provide further comment, I would be very thankful.
Cheers,
Jarle
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Jarle Kavli Jørgensen
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Thu Apr 24 09:24:10 UTC 2008
(ed. May 14 2008)
Berlin,
Germany
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hey Stupid Photogs,
thanks for your feedback. just ordered the catalog.
peace,
jarle
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the lartigue and eggleston shows at the hayward were great.
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The Land: Twentieth Century Landscape Photographs. Selected By Bill Brandt 1975 at the V&A,London.
Venezia ‘79 La Fotografia.(Venice)
Organized by Cornell Capa and the ICP , pretty mind blowing.
Exhibitions all over Venice ,26 in all. Eugene Atget,Weegee,Lewis Hine,Robert Frank,Tina Modotti,HCB,The Land(again!),Alfred Steiglitz(collection), Edward Weston, Robert Capa, Diane Arbus,the Sam Wagstaff collection,Polaroid collection. The Eugene Smith exhibition was sublime.
Also,contemporary (at the time) Italian(Gioli,Giacomelli), U.S,Latin American and Japanese photography.
A beautiful location for such a full on show. Pity they did’nt do it again.
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Anthony Suau: Beyond the fall. Budapest, Hungary – Museum of Ethnography March 17 – April 16, 2000
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Sam Tata, early 80s. Sam (who died in 2005 at the ripe old age of 93) was a friend of my father’s, and I think lived quite near us in Montreal. I couldn’t have been more than 10 or 12, but i remember going to his studio and being awestruck by the beautiful black and white prints, and the completely foreign look of his work from India and China in the 1940s. the smell of the chemicals, the musty paper, its still with me. also saw a retrospective of his work around the same time. definitely left an impact.
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the best exhibition i NEVER saw was the one i did with velibor and andrew in toronto,for bob. i hear there was a terrible plague that wiped out the entire canadian postal service:)))))
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“Robert Frank: The Americans” 1999-12-08 until 2000-03-26 Detroit Museum of Art Detroit, MI, USA United States of America
This special exhibition includes 84 images taken by Robert Frank as he traveled throughout the United States in 1955-56. The photographs are from the last remaining complete set of photographs from The Americans which was published as a book in 1958. The exhibition also includes 14 photographs recently acquired by the DIA that were taken in Detroit and the Ford Rouge plant during the mid-50, as well as books and printed materials which document the history and impact of the series.
I was unaware that there have been few exhibitions of his complete “Americans” work.
This was an amazing exhibition. In addition, being in Detroit, it was good to see further work from one of the old Ford plants.
Outstanding show of superb photographs but modestly presented.
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Michael :)))))...that was a BRILLIANT AND BEAUTIFUL SHOW….and yes, i will still get you all the stuff, promise! :)))...it’s been a plague-filled 3 months…but, i always keep promises…only this time, long…will get u a cd, promise…
hugs
b
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“Heart of Spain: Capa’s Photographs of the spanish civil war”, at the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, 1999.
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diane arbus – revelations at lacma in 2004. that show was amazing. all the stuff i expected to see, plus a whole bunch of stuff i’d never seen and contact sheets, her cameras, notebooks, a working enlarger projecting an image onto an easel. it was huge. i went twice and i still don’t feel like i saw everything.
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Migrations, Humanity in Transition: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado. June 22 to September 9, 2001 International Center of Photography
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The Philip Jones Griffiths retrospective at the National Museum of Wales a few years ago. It had a contact sheet under every classic image so you could see his working method, along with notebooks etc, even a detailed description of his duping process.
Massively illuminating and a real excercise in demystifying some of the obfuscating bullshit that surrounds the practice of photojournalism.
The exhibition bypassed London and went to Paris, which was a nice Celtic touch ;)
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Another vote for the Cartier-Bresson show at the Hayward – although the one I saw must have been later – around 85? It was a show that went into my memory and came out in bits and pieces, years later. At the time it was just another exhibition to be consumed – I was a student then and only learning who the old masters were.
Cheers, PHC.
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Eugene Richard’s retrospective at Look3 last year was one for the ages…
Doug MacLellan
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There was this great exposition about Robert Frank´s work called “STORY LINES” at the MACBA in Barcelone in 2005, great show with a lot of documentary photography but also some of his film work with the beat generation, some notebooks full of ideas, memories. Includes as well some “photomontage”. Was really something amazing…
http://www.macba.es/controller.php?p_action=show_page&pagina_id=34&inst_id=19980
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I am great full for all the input all of you have given. Truly sorry that I have not replied, and shown my appreciation before. So a big big thanks!!
cheers,
jarle
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