Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gerry. Thank you for this interesting posting. I hope to be in London in three-four weeks time, and I will be e-mailing you for an update of good exhibitions, if I may. Chris >Richard > >A great place to visit in London is the Victoria and Albert Museum which >not only has a good photography exhibition area but also houses a major >collection of prints from many of the great photographers that you can >handle and study. Go to the Print Room on 4th floor (I think!) and you >will find card indexes of all the photographers they have work by. I >have had many a thrilling time handling original prints by >Cartier-Bresson, Doissneau etc., and studying their choice in paper, >retouching etc. > >There is also currently an exhibition of David Bailey at the Barbican >Centre, and I think the Terance Donovan show is still up at the London >Museum. I have not seen the Donovan (who I spent a day working with >once) and I found the Bailey a bit repetative in that it is his work >from the 60's and all of a similar "Vogue" style. > >If I can help further contact me privately by email and I will give you >telephone numbers to contact me on. > >Gerry - -- christer almqvist eichenstrasse 57, d-20255 hamburg, fon +49-40-407111 fax +49-40-4908440 14 rue de la hauteur, f-50590 regnéville-sur-mer, fon+fax +33-233 45 35 58