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Photo Events 2013-14

The PHOTO HISTORIES listing of selected photographic festivals, exhibitions, lectures, seminars and auctions taking place around the world over the next 12 months. Please check details on the event web site before commencing your journey.



EVENT LOCATION DATES DESCRIPTION COST*
A History of Photography On line Permanent Robert Leggat’s history up to the 1920s. -
Humphrey Spender’s Worktown On line Permanent Bolton in the 30s for the Mass Observation project. -
Photographs Gallery V&A, London Permanent New gallery at first museum to exhibit photos (1858). -
The Bitter Years 1935-41 Waassertuerm, Dudelange, Lux Permanent Steichen’s 1962 FSA/MoMA show reopens in Luxembourg. €6/€4/
-21 free
Wanderlust: Photographs by Alec Soth North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA Until 30 Jun 2013 Work from two recent series Mississippi and Niagra. -
Robert Adams: The Place We Live Reina Sophia, Madrid Until 20 May 2013 One of the most lucid chroniclers of the American West. €6/€3
We Went Back by Chim ICP, NY Until 5 May 2013 Photographs from Europe 1933–1956. $14/$10
Man Ray Portraits NPG, London Until 27 May 2013 First major UK museum retrospective. £12-£14
Finir en beauté Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône Until 19 May 2013 Collection of art-critic Bernard Lamarche-Vadel. -
Stanley Greene, Sur la route d’une guerre Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône Until 23 June 2013 War, Chechnya 1994-6. -
The Mexican Suitcase Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris Until 30 Jun 2013 Lost photos of the Spanish Civil War by Capa, Taro & Chim. €7/€4.50
Dawn of Japanese Photography: Hokkaido and Tohoku Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Until 6 May 2013 Third in a series of shows on early photography in Japan. ¥500/¥400/¥250
Sebastião Salgado’s Genesis Natural History Museum, London Until 8 Sep 2013 Ancestral traditions & cultures on our fragile planet. £10/£5
In the Picture: Brave New Burma with Nic Dunlop Frontline Club, London 15 May 2013 Dunlop shows pictures & talks to the BBCs Fergal Keane about his new book Brave New Burma £12.50/£10
Photography and History in the USSR 1920-1940 Noorderlicht Photogallery, Gronigen, The Netherlands 25 May-30 June 2013 Masterpieces from the Soviet Avant Garde and socialist realism under Stalin. -
Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr Science Museum, London 21 Sep 2013 – 16 Mar 2014 First exhibition at the Media Space which will show Britain’s National Photography Collection held by the National Media Museum, Bradford. -


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COST*  =   adult/concessions

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