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Tag Archives: photography
Looking At The World From A Different Viewpoint
I came across a remarkable set of photographs yesterday via Twitter. What was photographed was certainly not remarkable – very ordinary rooms – but what made them so was the unusual bird’s eye perspective. According to the Guardian article, photographer Menno Aden … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists, exhibition, Photograph
Tagged art, artist, berlin, bird's eye view, guardian, menno aden, photographer, photography, wandsworth museum
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More About Photography In Galleries
(Being a continuation of the last post) Some years ago, the Management and I were on holiday in Paris and went toddling off to the Louvre. The guide book stated that the best plan was to think of the Louvre … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Photography
Tagged art, art gallery, danny birchall, lacemaker, Louvre, paris, photography, Vermeer
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Public Photography In Art Galleries
Two days – two BBC Radio 4 programmes. Today it’s Today – i.e. the flagship programme called Today. For the five minutes at the very end of the three hours this morning, there was a discussion about people taking photographs in art … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Photography
Tagged art, art gallery, bbc, brett rogers, copyright, mobile phones, photographers gallery, photography, rachel campbell-johnson, radio 4, times, today
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Not Just A Girl!
I’ve just had a link on my Facebook account to a delightful photographic website, Jaime C Moore Photography. She had a wonderful idea about photographs to commemorate her daughter’s fifth birthday. Disney princess? No, real women! Unfortunately, I can’t give … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photograph, Photography
Tagged child, heroines, jamie moore, photographer, photographs, photography, portraits, real women
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Three items picked up via Twitter
As I stated in my ‘Hello’ introduction, one of the purposes of this blog is to share ‘ephemeral’ items about art. Recently I’ve started using Twitter to help me keep up to date with art news. This evening as I … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists, Drawing, Photograph, Photography
Tagged art, artist, damien hirst, heidi voet, kelvin okafor, nude, photographs, photography, tinie tempah, twitter
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Life Drawing and Portraits
Yesterday’s Daily Telegraph had an interesting letter about the new portrait of the Duchess of Cambridge at the National Portrait Gallery. “Sir – Due to the punishing schedules of the Royal family who are asked to sit for dozens of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Drawing, Painting, Photography
Tagged art, artist, duchess of cambridge, national portrait gallery, photography, portraits
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Is it just me?
I visited the local art circle’s exhibition at Bolton Library last week. There were two paintings which struck me. (Well, three if you include the one I voted for in the Visitors’ Prize poll, and which I then went out … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Artists, exhibition, Painting, Photograph, Photography
Tagged art, artist, artists, Bolton, exhibition, lego, painting, photographs, photography, robert capa
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Richard Dorment’s Year of Art
Today’s Review in the Daily Telegraph was dedicated to a review of the year in the arts. Richard Dorment looked at some of the various exhibitions which have been on this year, several of which I have visited myself and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Gallery, Artists, exhibition, Painting, Photograph, Photography, Print, Sculpture
Tagged art, artist, british museum, bronze, celebrity, chris buck, David Hockney, photography, Richard Dorment, royal academy, seduced by art, visual culture blog, vollard suite
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Can’t Make Up My Mind … (from We Are OCA)
[I’ve just read this beautiful article on the OCA website. I decided it needed sharing more widely and found it easier to copy it into my blog rather than trying to ‘share’ it using the profusion of buttons. The original … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photograph, Photography
Tagged anthropology, arctic tundra, art, artist, curtis, genesis, photographs, photography, sebastiao salgado, siberia
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From Saensbury Wing to Sainsbury Wing
(Or “Inspiration at the National Gallery II”) (The story so far: Our intrepid hero, accompanied by his wife, the Management, has visited the Bronze exhibition at the Royal Academy and the Richard Hamilton: Late Works exhibition in the main building … Continue reading
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