Category Archives: Photography

05Mar/22
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Sartorial Sixties

‘Beautiful People: The Boutique in 1960s Counterculture’, an exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London, explores how a handful of Chelsea boutiques sparked a fashion revolution in the mid-1960s. Here we review ‘Beautiful People Photographs 1966 to 1973’, the dedicated accompanying photography show in the museum’s upstairs gallery space.

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14Jan/19
Salvador Dalí and Gala Dalí with Artist Pavel Tchelitchew, photograph by Cecil Beaton, 1936. Courtesy of The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive, Sotheby’s

Cecil Beaton – Thirty From The 30s

A timely publication, given that Sir Cecil Beaton was born on this day, January 14 (1904), which also signals your last chance to go and see a visionary capsule collection of vintage portraits, focused entirely on the 1930s, by one of the leading photographers of the 20th century. Continue reading

12May/15

György Kepes at Tate Liverpool

Tate Liverpool’s György Kepes exhibition only covers a small portion of this maverick artist and deep thinker’s output. The works selected were created in the handful of years following his emigration to the US in 1937, where he headed the Colour and Light department of the New Bauhaus School in Chicago, established by fellow Hungarian and Bauhaus professor László Moholy-Nagy. Continue reading

27Feb/15

Picture Perfect: Photographing Floral Art

My recent involvement in a number of photo shoots with the talented Brazilian floral artist Zita Elze leads me to reflect on the synergistic partnership that can evolve between photographer and artist, the end result so clearly elevating what might have been a great picture to one that is sublime. Continue reading