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Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, 1834 – 1910
There is a haunting and haunted quality about the photos... Frederick Cayley Robinson:
Acts of Mercy Siren City: Photographs of Naples
Sargent and the Sea
Rude Britannia: British Comic Art
Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera
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Mary Phelan
Visitors to the exhibition will enjoy deciphering the allegories and
symbols, as much as the aura of peace and calm in the space in contrast to the
outside cauldron of Trafalgar Square. The exhibition is free to enter. Mary Phelan
Johnnie Shand Kydd has captured Naples and anyone interested in the meaning of
see Naples and die will surely find a clue here...
Nehrain Khalifa
I had always thought of artist John Singer Sargent as a painter of glossy,
high-concept portraits for wealthy sitters. The roots of his career saw a more
immediate response to his environment, less defined and refined, but fresh,
bewitching and very beautiful...
Mary Phelan
The comic is about making a serious point, points we can’t make in other ways,
says Martin Myrone, curator of this exhibition, now open at Tate Britain. This exhibition
explores the comic in British art from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Mary Phelan
This exhibition is as troubling as it is beguiling, as shocking as it is entertaining.
Ultimately, the images are about us; what we do, what we view and how we are viewed -
essential viewing for all students of photography, surveillance and human nature.
Mary Phelan