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Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009

November 6, 2009

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February 14, 2010

Following the success of last year’s competition, the 2009 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize showcases the very best in contemporary portrait photography once again. This year’s awards attracted over 2,400 photographers and 6,300 images with only 60 of those making it to the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Through editorial, advertising and fine art images, the mix of international entrants have explored a range of themes, styles and approaches to the contemporary photographic portrait, from formal commissioned portraits to more spontaneous and intimate moments capturing friends and family. Featuring many images previously unexhibited, the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 represents a unique opportunity to see some of the most exciting contemporary portrait photographers working today.

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Twiggy: A Life in Photographs

September 19, 2009

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March 21, 2010

Twiggy’s 60th birthday is celebrated by the National Portrait Gallery with the launch of a new exhibition and the publication of a photographic biography of her life. One of the best-known models of all time and arguably the first supermodel, Twiggy has worked with the world’s leading photographers and a some of the most iconic images will be on show at the Gallery.

Twiggy says, ‘Over my career I’ve had the privilege of working with many great photographers. I’m very excited to see so many of these portraits coming together at the National Portrait Gallery and in my new book. It’s really interesting to see how fashion photography and portraiture have evolved throughout my career. I hope that this display and book will give people the opportunity to see these pictures that have captured definitive moments in my career. ‘

Twiggy: A Life in Photographs is now on at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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André Kertész On Reading

July 17, 2009

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October 4, 2009

André Kertész is known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and by his efforts in establishing and developing the photo essay. In the early years of his lengthy career, his then-unorthodox camera angles, and his unwillingness to compromise his personal photographic style, prevented his work from gaining wider recognition. He is recognized today as one of the seminal figures of photojournalism.

Over the course of his career, Kertész captured readers of all ages in various locations – on rooftops and balconies, in parks, on crowded streets, at train stations, in libraries – creating a poetic study of the act of reading. The photographs range from abstract formal compositions to playful, often humorous observations, a signature style of Kertész’s work.

On Reading remained a constant fascination. At this moment when digital technologies might render the printed page obsolete, On Reading is a timely, humorous and nostalgic reminder of the importance of the book and the culture of reading.

Exhibition At London’s Photographers Gallery

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Satellites: A Photographic Journey Through the Unknown Republics of Eastern Europe

June 24, 2009

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August 9, 2009

Norwiegan photographer Jonas Bendiksen explores regions of the former Soviet Union in this exhibition accompanying his new book of the same name. On display at the Sir John Soane-designed PM Gallery & House in Ealing, the images focus on former communist areas often overlooked by photo-journalism, such as Transdniester and Abkhazia. Bendiksen’s lens also captures spacecraft crash zones between Russia and Kazakhstan, the Jewish Autonomous Region of Far Eastern Russia and an unrecognised country on the Black Sea.

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Gerhard Richter Portraits Exhibition

February 26, 2009

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May 31, 2009

New exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Richter’s use of his own private photographs heralded, from the late 1970s, a body of portraits connected with his inner circle of family and close friends. Such intimate subjects and personal themes seem, at first, to stand in stark contrast to the impersonal nature of his early work but Richter’s recent portraits continue to explore the preoccupations that have been present from the outset, being both open to the viewer’s gaze, yet impenetrable. Though personal, there is a sense that these portraits remain, as Richter has observed, a ’semblance’.

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Root Ginger: A Study of red hair by Photographer Jenny Wicks

February 17, 2009

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March 8, 2009

Ridiculed, coveted, derided, loved; a study and celebration of red hair comes to the Idea Generation exhibition gallery in London.

Idea Generation Gallery is pleased to present selected works from the book Root Ginger: A Study of Red Hair by the photographer Jenny Wicks. An exhibition, book and film project, Root Ginger is a tribute to a trait that is most common in Scotland and Ireland but is scattered around the world.

Gallery Opening times are: Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday & Sunday 12 - 5pm.

Idea Generation Gallery, 11 Chance St, London. E2 7JB.

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