London galleries Osborne Samuel and Beetles + Huxley have joined forces for a combined exhibition looking at photography through the ages. Beginning with 19th Century images and continuing through to the present day, over 150 important photographs will be on show when The Photographers 2014 opens later this month. Legendary names such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Horst P Horst and Cecil Beaton are well represented, as are recent discoveries like Vivian Maier and contemporary artists including Alex McClean and Justine Blau.
The breadth of the exhibition’s scope means there is a treat for every taste. Within the genre of “street photography” alone there is a brilliant variety of images, from Thurston Hopkins’s vicar crossing a rainy Pimlico street to the extraordinary work of Maier, whose huge body of mid-20th Century work was amassed while working as a nanny in America. The glamorous world of Hollywood plays a role – Irving Penn’s portrait of the sleepy-eyed yet decidedly predatory-looking Marlene Dietrich for example – and the cinematic drama continues in the exploration photography of Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley as well as NASA photographs from the space missions. Mark your diaries photography fans, The Photographers 2014 runs from 20 November to 23 December.
Justine Blau, The Cumanan Catus, 2010.
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Ruud Van Empel, Sunday Number 5.
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Edward Steichen, Dana Miller In The Pond,
Umpawag, Connecticut, 1954.
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Thurston Hopkins, The Rev,
Rhinedorp, Vicar of Pimlico, Steps Out, 1954.
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Alex MacLean, Beach Scene.
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Bert Hardy, Maidens in Waiting, 1951.
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Alex MacLean, Delta.
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Irving Penn, Marlene Dietrich, 1948.
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