Around the Galleries
A selection of current photographic exhibitions that sparked our interest. Exhibition descriptions come from the host gallery websites as linked. David LaChapelle – Earth Laughs in Flowers Robilant + Voena Until the 24th March 2012 ‘In this new series of ten works DAVID LACHAPELLE (Born 1964) explores the vanity of life and beauty. With titles...
Jeff Wall – White Cube
Jeff Wall 23 November 2011 – 7 January 2012 White Cube – Mason’s Yard I’ll make no secret of my unabashed admiration for Jeff Wall, and having some familiarity with his previous work means I approach any of his exhibitions with an expectation of meaning beyond the outward appearance and technical acumen of the images. The recent exhibition...
Cinemagraphs
Recently there seems to have been a significant amount of coverage online about “cinemagraphs”, images which contain a shot sequence of frames, giving the effect of a still photograph with limited points of repeated movement. The term cinemagraph is claimed (and trademarked) by Kevin Burg and Jamie Beck “for their cinematic quality while maintaining at...
John Gollings
The work of John Gollings is almost instantly recognisable within the field of architectural photography, not merely for its seeming ubiquity within the Australian architectural landscape, but also for the clarity of vision with which he shoots his subject. Having studied as an architect in Melbourne in the 1960′s, he photographs buildings in a way that captures...
iPods and Other Devil Devices
Michael Bull cites Lefebvre: “he who walks down the street… is immersed in the multiplicity of noises, murmurs, rhythms”, arguing that urban dwellers are primarily “listening” subjects. But “listening subjects” have become exponentially deaf. We are moving to what Bull calls a “mediated urban isolation” or what Bauman sees as “privatizing of the street” and...
