The Lives of Great Photographers
15 April - 4 September 2011
From photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron and Eadweard Muybridge to Tony Ray-Jones and Weegee, this exhibition highlights some of the most famous and memorable images ever produced. It illuminates the extraordinary and sometimes exceptional lives these photographers led.
The Lives of Great Photographers is a compelling new exhibition drawn exclusively from the Museum's extensive and diverse Photography Collection, including works from The Royal Photographic Society Collection and the Daily Herald Archive. Together this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by some of the greatest
photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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David Spero: Churches
15 April - 4 September 2011
David Spero presents a selection of photographs from his series Churches. Taken in London between 2002 and 2006 the photographs document buildings that feature none of the usual monumental architecture of the traditional church with its overt symbolism of status and power.
Temporary, semi-permanent and often un-consecrated, the churches are where we would least expect to find them, located in industrial estates, shopping parades, houses, cinemas, above pubs and commercial properties they reveal a contingent architecture of buildings that were never designed to be places of worship.
Four new and previously unseen images of churches in West Yorkshire, commissioned by this Museum in 2010, will also be displayed.
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