Seen an Exhibition lately?

[kuvvy]

Thought I'd start this thread to see whether you guys have been viewing any good (or bad) exhibitions recently.
I went to Manchester Art Gallery (UK) to see the show by Don McPhee. Don worked for the Manchester \Guardian newspaper for 33 years and this is his first show!
These pictures are a selection of his news photography and many of them will be familiar to those in the UK as he covered many topical stories. There are shots featuring local news stories to major strikes & protests. Shots ranging from the ordinary guy in the street to the famous, including politicians, stars etc.

Well worth a look, but you'd better be quick as it ends on the 3rd April.

Paul

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Local genius: Arthur Montzka, in the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce Gallery. The man was a high-school music teacher, but wandered about the halls with a camera around his neck. He developed his film and made his own prints. The exhibit theme: the Suzuki method. His work: incredibly graceful, a series of masterpieces of children playing strings instruments. The number of prints is relatively small, but they were all well printed and expertly chosen. I went thinking I'd see stuff like mine... and was I wrong! There's a Life-magazine air to his photos (a girl string quartet very cute portrait, gag shots of girls fencing with a violin bow, music teachers in action, priceless facial expressions) and some of the prints are for sale at relatively inexpensive prices.

I left the gallery feeling a better human being. I wish they posted his stuff online! 🙂

BTW, it's a posthumous tribute. He passed away two years ago. 🙁

 

[peter_n]

I would like to see that expo. I'm working on a similar project with a local youth orchestra. Is there a link to a description of the exhibit?

 

[don sorsa]

Downtown Chicago has a fistful of excellent exhibits right now and two should particularly appeal to us here at RFF. Gary Stochl shot SP for 40 years with a Leica and 50mm lens and only 2 years ago started exhibiting - very interesting work. Stochl is a master of light and the "decisive moment." The Chicago Cultural Center also has one exhibit dedicated to touristic pics (including photos by Harry Callahan, Gary Winograd, and many others) and another on AIDS. The Museum of Contemporary Photography (Columbia College) has a couple hundred prints by Gary Friedlander, part of his Sticks and Stones and "at work" projects, shot with medium format I believe. The Art Institute has an exhibit of incredibly beautiful B&W prints by Tokihiro Sato. A long weekend in downtown Chicago would be very rewarding!

Francisco - The Montzka exhibit sounds good. How long is it up?

 

[Roman]

Saw a William Eggleston exhibition at the Albertina in Vienna recently - a friend wanted to go there, Eggleston never was a favorite of mine, and the exhibition confirmed this again...

And I saw an exhibition at the Univ. of Vienna this week, documentary work in B&W, about subsistence farmers (not sure about the correct English translation...) in Bulgaria, very good reportage stuff, really liked it, will have to look for the name of the photographer again.

Roman

 

[Jarvis]

Last exhibtion i went to, on opening night, was a pinhole thing .... the wine was excellent ...... ..... ....

 

[Flyfisher Tom]

Saw the G. Winogrand exhibit at the FOAM in Amsterdam first week of March. Based mainly on his project "women are beautiful". Very impressive work. The snowstorm on the other hand in Amsterdam, well, it was spring ! Burrrrrrrrr

 

[furcafe]

Here in Washington, DC, the Nat'l Gallery of Art has been hosting an exhibition of the works of Andre Kertesz, which is, of course, great like the man himself. Later, the Corcoran Gallery will be the DC site of Shomei Tomatsu's "Skin of the Nation" retrospective, which I saw up in NYC @ the Japan Society back in October of 2004.

 

[Roman]

OK, found the name of the documentary photographer I mentioned above: Martin Huetter:

http://www.univie.ac.at/pawlatsche/Falter-Bulgarien.pdf
http://www.univie.ac.at/pawlatsche/aktuelle_ausstellung.htm

Roman

 

[back alley]

i have not seen an original print in at least a year or 2.
our local museum had an exhibition of the 50's & 60's and as part of that they had an exhibit of linda macartney and her shots of famous musicians and some family stuff.
i was quite impressed as i had never seen any of her work before. she was very good.

but i need to go to more exhibits...

joe

 

[chenick]

I recently saw a major Henri Cartier Bresson exhibition in Buenos Aires (Argentina). Well worth the visit if you're in the area! 🙂
Closes on April 10th, so there's still time. Highly recommended!

http://www.ccborges.org.ar/home.html

 

[gns]

Yes. John Szarkowski at MOMA, San Francisco. Kept his own work pretty much out of view while championing the likes of Winogrand, Friedlander, Eggleston, etc. Had some very strong work, I thought. Also there, a retrospective of the work of photo-realist painter, Robert Bechtel. Very different to see these paintings in the flesh (I was familiar with his work mainly from reproductions). A great afternoon.

 

[SolaresLarrave]

Don, Montzka's show closes soon... on April 3. It's a small thing: only 55 prints made by the man himself.

I just returned there this afternoon. There are some photos that simply put me in a good mood... 🙂

 

[don sorsa]

Thanks, Francisco. Only one week, too bad I can't make it to DeKalb before then.

 

[Schlapp]

Saw mcphees' work in Manc too. great show. Rwally inspiring. also seen portrait show at lowery and some other exhibits at war museum opposite side of docks. All worth a visit.
If you don't know The Lowry, it is modern theatre complex on the old Salford docks in Manchester [see image - FED 4]

 

[Trius]

At Eastman House, the work of Jessica Burstein from the NBC series, Law & Order (http://www.eastmanhouse.org/exhibits/container_19/index.asp), which also included various video clips and props. The photos reminded me very much of photojournalism from the 50-70s.

The Hands, Clifford Ross mountains, and Moholy-Nagy exhibts were mounted at this time (http://www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/exhibitions/exhibits.asp), and of the three, I liked the Hands exhibit most, though the Clifford Ross prints were spectacular and a technological triumph.

Also on now, but I haven't been yet, Portraits in American Music, which I am quite anxious to see, as it includes an AA photo and print.

Perhaps the highlight of the season for me will be a major Weston exhibit. I have seen major Adams exhibits, so I am looking forward to this.

Trius

 

[Kin Lau]

Saw the G. Winogrand exhibit at the FOAM in Amsterdam first week of March. Based mainly on his project "women are beautiful". Very impressive work. The snowstorm on the other hand in Amsterdam, well, it was spring ! Burrrrrrrrr

We had a similar exhibit at a local gallery in Toronto of Winogrand about the same, also the "Women are Beautiful" series, only about a dozen prints, but my wife especially liked it.

 

[Schnitzer]

HCB Photography Exhibit

HCB Photography Exhibit

Photographs taken by HCB during his trip thru Switzerland in 1966 can be seen at the Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne until April 10th. A few samples of the photographs appearing in the exhibit are shown on the Swiss Info website:

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=100

I, personally, did not think the examples shown on the website merit an exhibition, ...... looked pretty mundane to me. I don't think I'll be going over to see the rest of them!

 

[jon furer]

The Diane Arbus exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC is a must see. I think it runs through early May.

 

[peter_n]

Don, Montzka's show closes soon... on April 3. It's a small thing: only 55 prints made by the man himself.

I just returned there this afternoon. There are some photos that simply put me in a good mood... 🙂

Well I just did some research on Arthur Montzka and his exhibit in DeKalb, including a brief review. For those (like me) unable to get to DeKalb to see this exhibition, the following two links provide some access to Montzka's work, including a book of photos he published in 1988. He was a Leica user. 🙂

Suzuki Association - Arthur Montzka Remembered

Suzuki Images - Photographs by Arthur Montzka