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Exhibition: Photographer Norman Parkinson: Never out of fashion - Louise Baring - Telegraph.co.uk
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Louise Baring for the Telegraph, " Norman Parkinson’s career as a fashion and portrait photographer spanned a remarkable 56 years. Turning his back on the ghostly-lit interiors that dominated pre-war fashion photography, he took women out into the real world, pioneering ‘action realism’, a photographic style that persists to this day. His images, combining aesthetic rigour with a witty, almost surrealist eye, were published in magazines on both sides of the Atlantic including Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Queen, Life and Town & Country."

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Posted October 11, 2009
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Exhibition: In Focus: Making a Scene - The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center

"Photography, although commonly associated with truthfulness, has been 

used to produce fiction since its introduction in 1839. The acceptance
of staging, and the degree of its application, has varied greatly
depending on the genre and the historical moment, but it has persisted
as an artistic approach. The photographs in this exhibition, drawn
exclusively from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection, make no
pretense about presenting the world as it exists; instead, they are
the productions of directors and actors who rely on stagecraft and
occasional darkroom trickery to tell stories.
 
Spanning photography's history and expressing a range of sentiments,
the images in this exhibition are inspired by art history, literature,
religion, and mainstream media."
 
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/focus_makingscene/index.html

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Posted July 5, 2009
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Radiant Nation: William Eggleston - Danielle O'Steen for Express

Danielle O'Steen for Express, "This much is true about William
Eggleston, often referred to as the father of color photography: He
works quickly, never stages a photograph and takes only one shot.
 
Eggleston learned early on that when something caught his eye, he
didn't need rolls of film to capture his mark. "[Starting out], I
would take many frames essentially of the same subject, see, and I
would have to decide which one was the best," Eggleston told Express
while in D.C. for his current retrospective "William Eggleston:
Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008," at the Corcoran.
"I figured, why not just take one? I'm going to eventually choose, and
I could never make up my mind."
 
http://www.expressnightout.com/content/2009/06/radiant_nation_william_eggleston.php

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Posted June 26, 2009
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Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture - Smithsonian - National Portrait Gallery

Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture - Smithsonian -
National Portrait Gallery
 
"Throughout a lengthy career, which spanned much of the twentieth
century, Marcel Duchamp recast accepted modes for assembling and
describing identity. In 1917, having recently arrived in the United
States, Duchamp found special significance in a mechanically produced
photo-postcard that depicted him simultaneously from five different
vantage points, thanks to a hinged mirror. The Five-Way Portrait of
Marcel Duchamp suggests the artist’s early recognition of the
multifarious nature of personal identity, something he would continue
to explore throughout his career. Fascinated with the way portraits
shape identity, Duchamp exploited the genre, often turning
conventional codes for portrayal on their head."
 
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/duchamp/index.html

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Posted June 24, 2009
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