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EDITOR’S LETTER H aving read Tim Clinch’s Smart Guide a practiced eye, yes, but wouldn’t a child of five be to Photography this month (page 70), capable of producing something just as good? I couldn’t resist the temptaption, And what’s wrong with that anyway? so I upgraded the software on my phone and bought the TinType app I think my disquiet stems from a sense that (all of 69p). It’s wonderful – I shot we are experiencing a vast homogenisation portraits, landscapes, still lifes (as recommended in everything we do, a flattening out of our individuality. Much as I love these pictures, by Tim) and was delighted with the results. I don’t feel they are mine, I feel they belong to all the people who use this app, all of us But, my pleasure soon became tainted. It was too together in one vast group. easy – I didn’t feel the satisfaction that I would if Maybe I’m just raging against the fact that my skills, for what they are worth, are being discarded, I’d struggled for hours in the darkroom to produce that I am playing an easy game with great results? That I’m being spoon-fed satisfaction. these lovely images – I had pointed and shot and I’m no nearer to answering these questions, and that was about it. The more I did, the better they when I go back and look at my images, I love them and want to print them. Tim says that you have to were (with a little tweaking in Lightroom) and the find your own individuality, your own distinctive style when you use a seductive app such as this – more dissatisfied I felt. Was this just perverse? that you find your own way of using it. Maybe he’s right. I don’t know.© Eddie Ephraums In the face of the marvels of modern technology am I experiencing a misguided work ethic – that something I produce can’t be of value when it’s taken no effort or skill to produce? And even there, Elizabeth Roberts, Editor I stumble – have I produced these pictures or has [email protected] the software in my phone produced them? I have facebook.com/blackandwhitephotog follow us on twitter @BWPMag PINBOARD © Colin Frankland © Michael Kenna 01 B+W COVER IMAGE Michael Kenna’s beautiful image Four Birds, Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France, 2000 introduces our first issue of 2015 to you in true style. Turn to page 8 to see more pictures by this wonderful photographer. MULTIPLE EXPOSURE Colin Frankland’s self-titled ‘composite selfie’ image was made using layer masks in Photoshop. We love how the fourth Colin (last on the right) is completely absorbed in reading B+W and ignoring the other three Colins! PRESENT IN THE POST Thank you to Glen Williams for sending us two of his beautiful B&W prints…we can’t wait to have them hanging up on our wall. Quote of the month © Mark Littlejohn ‘Education is important, but photography PICK OF THE PICS is importanter.’ Who needs to have an We love Mark Littlejohn’s photograph of a misty Cumbrian landscape – one understanding of correct grammar when of the commended images from Landscape Photographer of the Year 2014. you can take great pictures? Turn to page 48 to see our pick of the B&W images from this year’s competition.

ISSUE 172 JANUARY 2015HOW TO © Michael Kenna © Nick HedgesSUBMIT 8 34Photocopies of this form © Inigo Taylorare acceptable. Please tickwhich category you are 42submitting pictures to: PHOTO PROJECTS LAST FRAME PORTFOLIONameAddress © Luis Beltrán 80Postcode © Tim ClinchDaytime telephone no 76Email02B+W When burning your CD, create two folders: one containing high-res Tiffs or Jpegs (300dpi to about A4), the other containing low-res Jpegs (72dpi to about 20cm on the longest side). Images must be Mac-compatible. Please write your name and contact details on the CD or include this in a text file. Print submissions should be a maximum of 12x16in and must not be sent in tubes. We are currently unable to receive submissions online.SEND YOUR FEATURES NEWS COMMENTSUBMISSIONS TO 8 IN PRAISE OF . . . 4 NEWSROOM 24 AMERICANBlack+White Photography, Michael Kenna captures All the news CONNECTIONGMC Publications Ltd, 86 High Street, the beauty of France from the B+W worldLewes, East Sussex BN7 1XN Susan Burnstine talks to 34 A SHELTERED LIFE 7 ON THE SHELF Brandon ThibodeaxGET IN TOUCH Moving pictures of The best photography books deprivation by Nick Hedges 76 A FORTNIGHT Tel 01273 477374 20 IN THE FRAME AT F/8 facebook.com/blackandwhitephotog 42 THE ART OF The pick of twitter.com/BWPMag THE HUNT photography exhibitions Tim Clinch considers photographic challengesEDITOR Two street photographers 22 EXHIBITION OF discuss their work THE MONTH 78 BEHINDElizabeth Roberts THE SCENES [email protected] 80 60-SECOND The must-see show EXPOSURE Colin Harding on a boat builderDEPUTY EDITOR who became a royal photographer Listen to your heart,Mark Bentley says Luis Beltrán [email protected] EDITORAnna Bonita Evans [email protected]

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NEWS NEWSROOM News from the black & white world. Edited by Mark Bentley. [email protected] CONTRASTThe European B&W AnaloguePhotographer of the Year, organisedby Tetenal, is open to professionaland amateur photographers.Entrants must submit their work asan analogue black & white print. Parys Mountain, Anglesey, Wales. © Sam RiellyDeadline: 31 March. since1847.tetenal.com CELEBRATING LANDSCAPESJessops has become an officialLeica dealer. Leica products will be A promising young B&W picture of a mountain stream. that runs from platforms 7 to 11.available from Jessops stores in photographer has won the The judges included For those who can’t make it toReading, Birmingham, Glasgow and youth category of theOxford Street in London. The stores prestigious Landscape competition founder Charlie London, the winning pictureshave a ‘shop in shop’ feature, which Photographer of the Year. Waite and B+W Photography are also published in a bookmeans within the store there are contributor Eddie Ephraums. called Landscape Photographerdesignated areas for the main The picture by Sam Rielly of the Year – Collection 8.supplier brands. wins him £1,000. The Winning pictures are on show at the new Mezzanine at See more superb B&W picturesjessops.com competition’s overall winner Waterloo station in London until from the competition on page 4804 Leica equipment is also now was Mark Littlejohn, who 31 January. They can also be and Lee Frost’s guide to shooting wins £10,000 for his colourB+W available from Park Cameras. seen on a 40m wide LCD screen winter landscapes on page 58.The prestigious cameras – whichinclude the Leica M Monochrom, THE END OF A special photographyLeica M-A and Leica M-P – can ENDURANCE exhibition will be staged nextbe bought from Park Cameras in year to mark the centenaryLondon and Burgess Hill. The Long, Long Night, 1915, of the sinking of Sir Ernest by Frank Hurley. Shackleton’s ship, Endurance. parkcameras.com The ship sunk below theLucien Clergue, founder of the sea ice of Antarctica onRencontres de la Photographie at 21 November 1915. The crewArles in France, has died. Jean-Noël managed to escape andJeanneney, president of the festival, Shackleton led a heroic journeysaid: ‘The Rencontres de la to bring the men to safety.Photographie owes not just itscreation but also much of itsinfluence in France and around the The Royal Geographicalworld for over 40 years to his Society owns 68 glass platepassion, imagination and loyalty. We negatives from the expedition.are deeply saddened by this loss.’ The pictures, taken by Frank Hurley, have never previously rencontres-arles.comRicoh have announced a cashback been seen by the public.deal on a range of DSLRs. The deal They will be used inoffers up to £70 off a Pentax DSLR the exhibition to tell theand runs until 10 January. extraordinary story of the team’s survival. ricoh-imaging.co.ukLondon Art Fair runs at the The Enduring Eye: TheBusiness Design Centre in Antarctic Legacy of Sir ErnestLondon from 21 to 25 January. Shackleton and Frank HurleyHighlights include a critical forum goes on show at the Royalcalled Photo50, the Macallan Geographical Society in LondonMasters of Photography Lounge from 20 November 2015 for 10and a Photography Focus Day weeks. The RGS also hopes toon 21 January. tour the exhibition in the UK and abroad. londonartfair.co.uk

SPACE AGE The Hasselblad 500c. Frozen by Steve Gosling © Steve Gosling © whitewall.co.uk One of the first cameras used in B&W AT ITS FINEST RICH TONES space has been sold for $281,250. The Hasselblad 500c was used Pictures by British photographer selected among the best from the WhiteWall now provide photo by astronaut Wally Schirra on a Steve Gosling were among those 8,508 entries from 73 countries prints on high-end Ilford baryta Mercury Atlas mission in 1962. nominated in the annual Black & that we received this year. paper. The photo lab can produce Schirra, who died in 2007, was a White Spider awards. Steve Gosling’s The City Below, black & white prints on paper keen photographer and the fifth Frozen and Refuge from the from sizes 9x9cm to 100x100cm. man to reach space. The camera Basil O’Brien, creative director Night, represent black & white The process should provide rich was sold at an auction in Boston, of the awards, said: ‘It is an photography at its finest.’ white and black tones and a USA, to a major space artefacts incredible achievement to be surface that will not lose its lustre. collector based in the UK. whitewall.co.uk hasselblad.co.uk THE MASTER© Cristiana Damiano/Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2014 © Nick Danziger/*NB Pictures 05 Fashion and beauty photographer Mario Testino has been named as B+W the fifth Master of Photography. A long line in legs by Cristiana Damiano. Previous masters in the series, which was created by luxury WILD ABOUT whisky maker The Macallan, are PICTURES Rankin, Albert Watson, Annie Leibovitz and Elliott Erwitt. It’s time to get your entries ready Washing Line, Barrow Island, Barrow-in-Furness, by Nick Danziger. for the Wildlife Photographer of Mario Testino has created a the Year 2015. PRINT SUPPORT set of pictures for The Macallan. The results can be enjoyed Last year a black & white Renowned photographer Nick series and discounts with the in The Macallan Masters of picture of lions in the Serengeti Danziger has donated a limited Photographer’s Gallery, Getty Photography: Mario Testina by Michael ‘Nick’ Nichols was the edition print to support a Images Archive, Metro Imaging Edition, available from specialist overall winner of the competition. new membership scheme for and Blurb. whisky retailers price £2,215. The winning pictures are photography charity Photovoice. currently on show at the Natural Nick Danziger said: ‘I know themastersofphotography.com History Museum in London. The charity, which that others will be as impressed uses photography to help as I am with what Photovoice COAT The competition is open to disadvantaged and marginalised has achieved, and I am delighted OF professional, amateur and communities, runs projects in to donate a special Photovoice ARMS young photographers from the UK and abroad. Benefits for edition of images for its 5 January to 26 February. members include discounted platinum members.’ Nikon specialist entry to Photovoice’s lecture camera shop wildlifephotographer Find out more at photovoice.org Grays of oftheyear.com Westminster has been awarded a coat of arms. Gray Levett, founder of Grays of Westminster, was presented with the coat of arms at a celebratory dinner at the Institute of Directors in London. Guests included representatives from Nikon Japan, Nikon UK and Nikon Germany. graysofwestminster.co.uk



NEWS ON THE SHELF A strange and quietly moving book that traces the author’s early history from her birth in Bad Polzin, now Poland. We learn how her mother fled with her four month old daughter fromSNOWDON: the advancing Russians in 1945,A LIFE IN VIEW homeless and penniless. Rizzoli International Publications Zens, now living in Berlin, Hardback, £40 recently returned to herPrivileged, eccentric, talented andcharming – Anthony Armstrong birthplace to rediscover throughJones almost overshadows hisown photography. But, when you photography something of herstop to look beyond the celebrity,you discover a photographer lost memories and, perhaps, findof great worth with a light andsensitive touch. something of herself. Published to accompany THE SEA Accompanying Zens’ colour FORBIDDEN GAMES:a current exhibition at the photographs of the bleak landscape SURREALIST ANDNational Portrait Gallery, this MODERNISTbook is a celebration of the REMEMBERS of Poland are black & white images PHOTOGRAPHYphotographer’s life and work. of her family, sometimes croppedThe imagery ranges from Rosemarie Zens to show just a face, a foot or a Yale University Pressfashion shoots for Vogue and Verlag window. The juxtaposition gives Hardback, £25celebrity portraits, to his work Softback, £29.10 the book a dreamlike quality offor the Sunday Times The key to any photographicon the problems of the past and present mingling in an indeterminate future. collection is theme, andelderly, the disabled and other what better theme thanmarginalised groups. The book Zens’ deeply personal approach has an intriguing quality – at times surrealism with a littlealso includes extracts from his modernism thrown in?numerous scrapbooks, family unsettling. This is a book that needs time spent on it but the In 2000, the Clevelandphotographs and his many Museum of Art acquired adesigns and inventions. rewards will be delivered. unique collection created by art collector and filmmaker Like the exhibition, this book Elizabeth Roberts David Raymond. Passionate and 07is an intimate and revealing well informed, Raymond had adelight of portraiture at its ‘Zens’ deeply personal approach has an intriguing keen eye for a photograph and, B+Wbest, unpretentious and quality – at times unsettling. This is a book that needs without resorting to vast sums ofcompletely charming. money, put together a collection time spent on it but the rewards will be delivered.’ that was totally individual and Elizabeth Roberts yet made up of some of the key Cecil Beaton was an accomplished images of the 20th century. interior designer, a prolific diarist By 2000 Raymond began to feel the responsibility of and an Academy Award-winning maintaining such a historically important body of work. At stage and costume designer. But it the same time the Cleveland Museum of Art felt a need was as a photographer that he was to increase its photographic holdings. It was a perfect match. most celebrated. And, with the publication of this book, we too now have access to His camera captured some of the David Raymond Collection – something quite special. the most famous faces of the 20th A beautifully illustrated book century, from Tallulah Bankhead with 178 vintage images from the 1920s to the 1940s by artists in 1927 to the Rolling Stones in from 14 countires, including the famous and the less well known. 1967. Always on the lookout for Elizabeth Roberts talent, he photographed actors and artists, writers and royalty – and he made them all look beautiful. Portraits and Profiles features more than 120 of these portraits, PORTRAITS each of them thoughtfully AND PROFILES composed explorations of character. Alongside the pictures CECIL BEATON are Beaton’s own, sharply written Frances Lincoln and engaging descriptions of his Hardback, £30 subjects. Some of them he liked and some he did not, but he respected them all. Editor Hugo Vickers has added his own notes, providing a more rounded picture of this fascinating photographer and his extraordinary subjects. Mark Bentley

FEATURE IN PRAISE OF… In an extract from his latest book, France, Michael Kenna looks back over three decades of visiting a country he loves, and which he has photographed All images © Michael Kenna extensively. Over the following pages we glimpse his unique portrayal.808B+W Jardin du Roi, Versailles, Yvelines, France, 1997 T hree years ago, a monograph of my photographic work, These images are derived from my limited experiences in the places In France, was published by RAM, Japan. I wrote in the I have been fortunate enough to spend time. This is certainly not introduction: ‘Photographing France could be more than meant to be a comprehensive survey of France. I see this collection a life’s work and I fully realise that the 57 images in this as more of a personal, visual diary and I hope and trust that in future publication barely scratch the surface of this country.’ In this years I can continue my explorations of this beautiful and unique Nazraeli Press book, France, there are 275 images, photographed country. I feel that the potential for further creativity is limitless. over a period of 30 years, and yet my conclusions remain the same. Michael Kenna

09 B+WChildren of the Trianon, Versailles, Yvelines, France, 1996

10B+W Nesting Colony, Bourgogne, France, 1997 Right Homage to Atget, Parc de Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, 1998

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12B+W Château de Versailles, Versailles, Yvelines, France, 1996

13 B+WPont des Arts, Study 1, Paris, France, 1987

Right Ange Tranquille au Ciel, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 199714B+W Pont Neuf, Study 3, Paris, France, 2011

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16B+W Pebbles and Beach House, Cayeux-sur-Mer, Picardie, France, 2009 Right Soirée, Beau Rivage, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, 1996

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18B+W Four Birds, Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France, 2000 France is published in hardback with slipcase by Nazraeli Press at $85. nazraeli.com ‘I see this collection as more of a personal, visual diary and I hope and trust that in future years I can continue my explorations of this beautiful and unique country. I feel that the potential for further creativity is limitless.’

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NEWS IN THE FRAME If you would like an exhibition to be included in our listing, please email Brought to you Anna Bonita Evans at [email protected] at least 10 weeks by Leica Camera in advance. International listings are on the app edition of the magazine.LONDON 17A Electric Lane, SW9 photofushion.orgBRITISH LIBRARY QUEEN’S GALLERYTo 20 January To 22 FebruaryTerror and Wonder: Cairo to Constantinople:The Gothic Imagination Early Photographs of theThis celebration of gothic literature Middle Eastincludes new pictures by Martin Parr. Photographer Francis Bedford96 Euston Road, NW1 accompanied the future King Edward VIIbl.uk in a fascinating tour in 1862.HAMILTONS GALLERY Buckingham Palace royalcollection.org.ukTo 30 January ROYAL OBSERVATORYMurray Fredericks: Recent WorkMesmerising landscape photographs To 22 Februaryby the Australian photographer. Astronomy Photographer13 Carlos Place, W1K of the Yearhamiltonsgallery.com Spectacular photographs of the cosmos.HORNIMAN MUSEUM Greenwich, SE10AND GARDENS rmg.co.ukTo 8 March SOMERSET HOUSERevisiting Romania: To 25 January Portraits from London Wounded: The Legacy of War Bryan Adams’ compelling portraits20 Colour portraits of contemporary of wounded British soldiers. Strand, WC2RB+W Romanians living and working in the capital city.100 London Road, SE23 somersethouse.org.uk horniman.ac.uk TATE BRITAINLITTLE BLACK GALLERY To 12 April15 January to 10 March Poor Man’s Picture GalleryDarlene & Me Rare collection of VictorianNorwegian photographer Anja Niemi’s stereographic photographs.imaginative colour series. Hat and Five Roses, Paris, 1956 Millbank, SW1P13A Park Walk, SW10 CELEBRATED © William Klein tate.org.uk thelittleblackgallery.com To 24 January TATE MODERNMEDIA SPACE Work by leading photographers of the 20th century, including To 15 MarchTo 18 January pictures by Elliott Erwitt, Bill Brandt and René Burri. Conflict, Time, PhotographyMake Life Worth Living ATLAS GALLERY 49 Dorset Street, W1U atlasgallery.com Exhibition exploring the relationshipHard-hitting photographs by between photography and sitesNick Hedges for housing charity Shelter. of conflict over time.To 1 March Bankside, SE1Drawn by Light: He Wasn’t an Easy Gentleman St Martin’s Place, WC2H tate.org.ukTreasures from the RPS to Describe npg.org.uk THE PHOTOGRAPHERS’More than 200 pictures ranging Wet plate collodion prints inspired by GALLERYfrom Fox Talbot to Martin Parr. the character Sherlock Holmes. NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMExhibition Road, SW7 150 London Wall, EC2Y To 30 August To 18 Januarysciencemuseum.org.uk museumoflondon.org.uk Wildlife Photographer of the Year Edward Steichen: In High Fashion,MUSEUM OF COMEDY NATIONAL PORTRAIT Successful photos, including the overall The Condé Nast Years 1923-1937 GALLERY winning B&W image, from this More than 200 vintage prints by theTo 31 March year’s competition. influential photographer.Tommy Cooper To 22 February Cromwell Road, SW7 To 18 JanuaryJohn Claridge’s B&W portraits Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize nhm.ac.uk Analemma: Fashion Photographyof the late comedian. Celebrating the best in contemporary PHOTOFUSION 1992-2012Bloomsbury Way, WC1A portrait photography. Contemporary art and fashionmuseumofcomedy.com To 21 June 2015 To 30 January photographer Viviane Sassen’sMUSEUM OF LONDON Snowdon: A Life in View Salon/14 first London solo show. Portraits of stars ranging from Annual photography show of work 16-18 Ramillies Street, W1FTo 1 March Laurence Olivier to David Bowie. by members of Photofusion. thephotographergallery.org.uk

North Road 2, Iceland John Fontcuberta: SOUTH Stranger than FictionCHICHESTER CAMERA CLUB © Ann McDonald Major retrospective of Catalan ASHDOWN GALLERY photographer’s imaginative work.ADVANCED WORKERS’ EXHIBITION Little Horton Lane, Bradford To 31 March Weald10 to 11 January nationalmediamuseum.org.uk David Higgs’ platinum prints fromGroup show including colour and B&W work. his five year project on the OPEN EYE GALLERY Sussex Weald.NORTH MUNDHAM VILLAGE HALL Ashdown Forest Centre, 22 January to 12 April East SussexSchool Lane, Chichester chichestercameraclub.org.uk Metamorphosis of Japan After the War milesfromhere.co.ukWATERLOO TRAIN STATION liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Around 100 B&W prints by post-war 21 Japanese photographers including WESTTo 31 January NATIONAL MEDIA MUSEUM Shomei Tomatsu, Eikoh Hosoe B+WLandscape Photographer and Ken Domon. BRISTOL MUSEUMof the Year 2014 To 5 Feburary 19 Mann Island, Liverpool AND ART GALLERYWinning images from this year’s competition openeye.org.uk To 22 February Wildlife Photographer of the Yearat one of London’s busiest train stations. SCHOOL OF MUSEUM STUDIES Duplicates of this year’s winning images, currently exhibited in London.Mezzanine level, SE1 To 13 February Queens Road, Bristol 100 Stories of Migration take-a-view.co.uk Exploring the ways in which bristolmuseums.org.uk migration can affect us. 19 University Road, Leicester SCOTLAND le.ac.uk STILLS WALKER ART GALLERY To 25 January Shot at Dawn To 15 February Chloe Dewe Mathews’ poignant images. The Gang: 23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh Photographs by Catherine Opie Featuring 25 portraits of people stills.org belonging to the LGBT community. William Brown Street, Liverpool liverpoolmuseums.org.ukEASTART AND DESIGN GALLERYTo 31 JanuaryThe Home FrontDisplay of photographer Melanie Friend’scolour pictures that explore the civilianexperience of war.University of Hertfordshire, Hertford herts.ac.ukBOAT HOUSE GALLERYTo 22 FebruaryImages of East AngliaB&W prints of the surroundingarea by the members of the SuffolkMonochrome Group.Bridge Cottage, Flatford, Suffolk suffolkmonochromegroup.co.ukNORTH THE LAST COSMOLOGY Die Ganze Stadt, Zeno & Kiki, 1995INTERNATIONAL To 23 January © Kikuji Kawada – courtesy of Michael Hoppen GallerySLAVERY MUSEUM First UK solo show of Japanese photographer Kikuji Kawada’s work.To 7 June, 2015 MICHAEL HOPPEN GALLERY 3 Jubilee Place, SW3 michaelhoppengallery.comBrutal Exposure: The CongoPictures from the early 1900s ina campaign for human rights.Includes distressing images.Albert Dock, Liverpool

NEWS OUTSIDE THE FRAME If you would like an exhibition to be included in our listings, please email Anna Bonita Evans at [email protected] at least 10 weeks in advance. AMERICA GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE To 25 January Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project Portraits of African Americans living in Birmingham, Alabama, during the Civil Rights Movement. 900 East Avenue, New York eastmanhouse.org NAILYA ALEXANDER GALLERY To 28 February Solarised Exhibition of solarisation prints. 41 East 57th Street, New York nailyaalexandergallery.com ROBERT MANN GALLERY To 31 January Oh the Places You’ll Go! The splendid sights Earth has to offer through the eyes of Michael Kenna.18 525 West 26th Street, New York Quatorze Julliet by robertmann.com Johan van der Keuken, 1958B+W © Van der Lely & Van Zotendaal SOUTHEAST MUSEUM HOLLAND OF PHOTOGRAPHY DANCING LIGHT LET IT MOVE YOU… To 15 February Sea of Dreams To 8 March Pictures from Judith Fox’s 14-year photo project where she explored one Photographs that explore the power of dance. small stretch of the seashore. HUIS MARSEILLE, MUSEUM FOR PHOTOGRAPHY Keizersgracht 401, Amsterdam huismarseille.nl 1200 West International Speedway Boulevard, Florida smponline.org YANCEY RICHARDSON CANADA All Photography is an Enigma Takashi Hamaguchi’s B&W GALLERY More than 170 images which NATIONAL GALLERY explore mystery, anonymity and protest pictures. To 17 January OF CANADA the unknown. 119 Rue Vieille du Temple, Paris takaishiigallery.com Genesis To 1 March To 25 January B&W images from Sebastião Salgado’s Taking It All In: The Photographic False Horizons GERMANY fascinating eight-year project. Panorama and Canadian Cities A range of Alberto García-Alix’s 525 West 22nd Street monochrome urban landscape, self- GALERIE HILTAWSKY Historical panoramic photographs. yanceyrichardson.com 380 Sussex Drive, Ottawa portrait and abstract still life images. To 21 February gallery.ca 5/7 Rue de Fourcy, Paris Kate Moss: The Icon AUSTRALIA FRANCE mep-fr.org Pictures of the iconic supermodel. Tucholskystrasse 41, Berlin AUSTRALIAN CENTRE HÔTEL DE VILLE MUSÉE CARNAVALET FOR PHOTOGRAPHY hiltawsky.com To 28 March To 1 February 31 January to 22 March Paris Magnum Paris HELMUT NEWTON Christian Thompson Michael Kenna’s B&W photographs FOUNDATION Artist’s imaginative colour Around 150 photos depicting Paris by of this enigmatic city. To 17 May self-portraits. Magnum photographers. 16 Rue des Francs Bourgeois, Paris Helmut Newton: 31 January to 22 March 5 Rue Lobau, Paris carnavalet.paris.fr Permanent Loan Selection Dear Sylvia paris.fr TAKA ISHII GALLERY Around 200 photographs by the Images inspired by the poet PHOTOGRAPHY PARIS acclaimed photographer. Some have Sylvia Plath. MAISON EUROPÉENNE never been on public display before. 257 Oxford Street, Paddington DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE To 24 January Jebensstrasse 2, Berlin acp.org.au To 25 January Student Radicals, Japan 1968-69 helmutnewton.com

HELIOS PRIVATKLIN photographer’s B&W images. Keizersgracht 609, AmsterdamTo 28 JanuaryEgypt: In the Mirror of foam.orgTimelessnessLoïc Bréard’s monochrome NEDERLANDS FOTOMUSEUMdocumentary images.Holstenstrasse 2, Hamburg To 31 December 2016 The Darkroom: helios-kliniken.de Extraordinary Stories from the History of Dutch PhotographySTADTISCHE GALERIE The exhibition brings more than 185 years of Dutch photographyTo 15 February to life.Retrospective Willhelminakade 332, RotterdamMaster photographer Michael Kenna’smost enigmatic works. nederlandsfotomuseum.nl58636 Iserlohn, Offnungszeiten ICELAND michaelkenna.net REYKJAVÍK MUSEUMHOLLAND OF PHOTOGRAPHYFOAM PHOTOGRAPHY To 3 FebruaryMUSEUM Flat 5 A series of 15 long-exposureTo 28 January documentary images.Vivian Maier: Tryggvagata 15, ReykjavíkStreet PhotographerMajor retrospective of elusive ljosmyndasafnreykjavikur.is Tatjana, Veiled Head, Joshua Tree, 1988 © Herb Ritts Foundation SWEDEN 19 IN FULL LIGHT B+W To 15 February Herb Ritts’ sensuous fashion and portrait images. FOTOGRAFISKA Stagsgårdshamnen 22, Stockholm fotografiska.eu Fete du Mouloud Tanger, 1942 JAPAN Alvin Langdon Coburn: Modernist & Mystic © Nicolas Muller TAKA ISHII GALLERY Major retrospective including PHOTOGRAPHY / FILM Coburn’s platinum andFRANCE photogravure prints. To 31 January Salle Barbara de Braganza 13, MadridNICOLAS MULLER: TRACES OF EXILE Lina Scheynius: Exhibition 03 Swedish model-turned-photographer’s exposicionesmapfrearte.comTo 31 May intimate B&W images.Around 100 B&W images by the Hungarian photographer. 5-17-1 2F Roppongi, Tokyo SWITZERLANDJEU DE PAUME Chateau de Tours jeudepaume.org takaishiigallery.com FOTOMUSEUM WINTERHUR RUSSIA To 15 February Viviane Sassen: MULTIMEDIA ART In and Out of Fashion MUSEUM MOSCOW Collection of fashion photographer’s most imaginative works. To 1 February Gruzenstrasse 44+45, Zurich Julia Margaret Cameron Approximately 110 photographs fotomuseum.ch by the Victorian photographer, plus diary excerpts and letters. UKRAINE 16 Ostozhenka Street, Moscow Brucie Collections mamm-mdf.ru To 1 February SPAIN Alvin Booth Imaginative nude studies. FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE 55-b Artema Street, Kiev To 15 February bruciecollections.com

NEWS EXHIBITION OF THE MONTH All images © Armstrong Jones Seen as a bon viveur, non-conformist and the typical English gentleman, Lord Snowdon’s private life has at times outshone his photographs. This winter the National Portrait Gallery in London celebrates his graceful approach to portraiture. Anna Bonita Evans reports.22B+W Sir William Coldstream, 1962 Dame Margaret Natalie (‘Maggie’) Smith, 1970 P utting Antony ‘I don’t want people to feel at ease. There includes portraits of British Armstrong-Jones’ are quite long, agonised silences. I love it. actors, actresses and singers. photographs into sharp focus, Snowdon: Something strange might happen.’ Two books can be found in A Life in View at the National the centre of the first room, one Portrait Gallery highlights how portraits of Dame Maggie the exhibition takes visitors is Snowdon’s personal album – he is one of the finest British Smith, Anthony Blunt and through Armstrong-Jones' filled with press cuttings, letters portraiture photographers. Agatha Christie are among colourful career from the 1950s from artists he photographed The show draws on his gift the selection. to the 1990s. Split into two and shots of his studio. of 130 original prints to the rooms, the first presents 21 Throughout the selection gallery in 2013 and coincides Co-curated by the images from Snowdon’s 1965 of images (which are mostly with a monograph (see On the photographer’s daughter project Private View, where he printed by Snowdon himself) Shelf, page 7). Comprising 40 Frances von Hofmannsthal and examined the British art world. there is an intriguing mix of monochrome photographs the gallery’s assistant curator of The second, smaller, space styles, showing his diversity as a of leading cultural figures, photographs Helen Trompeteler, photographer. Some images are classically posed and lit while

Nell Dunn, 1982Helen Lessore, 1963 others, mostly the photographs taken pictures of celebrities 23 of artists taken in their studios, and created pioneering photo are looser in composition. essays about UK social issues. B+W Setting himself apart from hisB orn in 1930, contemporaries, such as Irving Armstrong-Jones Penn and Norman Parkinson, studied architecture at Snowdon is never more Cambridge University prominent than the subject before turning to photography of his photographs. in the 1950s. Encouraged by his uncle, the stage designer Admitting to consciously and artist Oliver Messel, he adopting a more reserved began to shoot theatre, fashion position than his sitters might and high society portraits. His expect, Lord Snowdon explains marriage to Princess Margaret, why in a 2010 interview with and his candid style, led him the Telegraph: ‘I’m not a great to being appointed the official one for chatting people up royal photographer in 1960. because it’s phoney. I don’t want He was given the title people to feel at ease. There are Earl of Snowdon in 1961. quite long, agonised silences. I love it. Something strange Now a figurehead of might happen.’ portraiture photography, Snowdon’s work spans more Running for almost another than six decades. He has six months, Snowdon: A Life in collaborated with Vogue, the View is a celebration of British Sunday Times Magazine, Vanity art and culture and gives an Fair and the Daily Telegraph, excellent overview to the work of a remarkable photographer.SNOWDON: A LIFE IN VIEW Vita Sackville-West, 1961…runs until 21 June at the National Portrait Gallery,St Martin’s Place, London WC2H; npg.org.uk

COMMENT AMERICAN CONNECTION susanburnstine.com After a difficult and challenging period in his life, Texas photographer Brandon Thibodeaux has earned praise and success for his pictures combining photojournalism with fine art. He talks to Susan Burnstine.24B+W W ithin the past two ‘In 2009, Thibodeaux embarked on his first Mound Bayou and the outlying years, Dallas-based road trip and bicycle journey across the areas, then expanded upon his photographer Mississippi Delta.’ area of focus and photographed Brandon 15 square miles of territory Thibodeaux has become what University of North Texas, community. He set out on this around the area. He says, many would consider an graduated with a degree in first journey with 30 rolls of ‘I wanted its legacy of black overnight success by universally photojournalism and Kodak T-Max, a twin lens autonomy to be part of the overall gaining notice as one of the rare international development in camera and the inspiration to project, but was seeing and few who seamlessly merge 2006, earned an internship at explore themes he was grappling experiencing so much more in the photojournalism with fine art the Dallas Morning News and with in his own life. daily lives of those outside of this influences. His images repeatedly was later hired as a freelance community that I knew the piece stand out from the crowd as photographer for the paper. Thibodeaux had been acutely could and should expand to thought provoking, poetic aware of the Delta’s musical and include these other small towns. narratives that leave lasting In 2009, Thibodeaux racial history and was curious to I just didn’t know how to do that.’ impressions on viewers. embarked on his first road trip explore how the recent election and bicycle journey across the of President Obama had caused T hibodeaux then made Thibodeaux’s photographic Mississippi Delta, which the region to sit on the precipice a few significant journey was sparked after a triggered a series of fortunate of the changing face of connections with difficult and challenging period encounters that inspired the American History. After he members of the in his life that led him on a road concept for his series When learned about the oldest communities who helped him of self-discovery. After battling Morning Comes. At the time he completely African American expand the focus of his series. lymphoma in his teens, he was still processing the effects town in the area, Mound Bayou He explains, ‘My attraction to the enrolled at a local college in his of his illness, had recently ended Mississippi, he became inspired Delta is firmly rooted in the actual hometown of Beaumont, Texas, a long-term relationship and says to explore and photograph the families I’ve grown close to.’ studied photography with he was ‘searching for something town and its residents.   renowned fine art photographer in myself’ that attracted him to One of the first subjects he Keith Carter and simultaneously churches as a means of solace, Over the next five years photographed for the series, split his time working for a small faith, redemption and Thibodeaux became well James ‘Dance Machine’ Watson daily newspaper outside of the acquainted with residents of Jr, introduced him to the Coffey city. He later transferred to the family in the neighbouring town

All pictures © Brandon Thibodeaux EXHIBITIONS USA CHICAGO 25 ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO B+W Until 11 Januaryof Duncan. He says, ‘The Coffeys became my foster family in the been widely exhibited across The City Lost and Found:welcomed me in immediately; area, and formed the nucleus to America and has earned a Capturing New York, Chicagoit was as if we’d already known the network of relationships I’ve number of esteemed grants and and Los Angeles 1960-1980each other. My relationship with made in the region ever since.’ awards, including the Newthe Coffeys grew over time, they Orleans Photo Alliance’s 2014 artic.edu When Morning Comes has Michael P Smith Fund Grant, Photolucida’s 2013 Top 50 for DENVER Critical Mass and a winner of the 2012 Magenta Foundation’s DENVER ART MUSEUM Flash Forward Grant. Until 25 January Photography & Vision: The Influence As Thibodeaux now feels of Joyce and Ted Strauss When Morning Comes is complete, he’s considering denverartmuseum.org publishing the series as a book. Additionally, he’s focusing on FORT WORTH assignment work, collaborating on a short immigration project AMON CARTER MUSEUM along the Texas/Mexico border Until 25 January and he’s resuming his work on Terry Evans: Meet me at the Trinity a long-term project that focuses on coon dog hunting. cartermuseum.org As a result of earning the HOUSTON 2013 Photolucida Critical Mass Solo Show Award, When CATHERINE COUTURIER GALLERY Morning Comes will be 17 January – 2 February exhibited at the Griffin Rachel Phillips Museum of Photography this month through to March 2015. catherinecouturier.com brandonthibodeaux.com LOS ANGELES THE GETTY Until 10 May In Focus: Play getty.edu PORTLAND BLUE SKY GALLERY Until 31 January Diana Markosian: Inventing My Father blueskygallery.org ROCHESTER GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM Until 25 January Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project eastmanhouse.org SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS Until 8 February New Visions: Art and Invention in the 19th Century mopa.org FLORIDA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ART Until 29 March Elger Esser: Combray fmopa.org

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FEATUREAll images © Nick Hedges /National Media Museum, BradfordA SHELTERED LIFE 35Commissioned by housing B+Wcharity Shelter in 1968,documentary photographerNick Hedges spent three yearsphotographing deprivation inthe UK. This significant body ofwork is now on show for the firsttime at Media Space in London.Elizabeth Roberts reports.M ake Life Worth Living is the apt title of this remarkable exhibition. Both moving and shocking, it reveals the appalling conditions under which people were living just 50 years ago. And, what is more unpalatable is that, according to Shelter who commissioned the original project, homelessness and sub-standard housing remains a problem in contemporary Britain. Campbell Robb, Shelter’s chief executive, says: ‘Nick’s pictures were crucial to the early days of Shelter’s campaigning, capturing a stark reality that many people in Britain couldn’t even imagine, let alone believe was happening in their community. Many of the scenes that Nick captured are from places that have long since been regenerated, but conditions not a million miles from these exist in our communities even now, with poor housing, sky-high house prices, rogue landlords and a housing safety net that’s being cut to shreds, leading threemillion people to turn to Shelter each year.’

36B+W Mr & Mrs O lived with their three children on the first floor of his mother’s condemned house. Mr O was unemployed and had been forced to give up his new council flat in Kirkby because he could not afford the rent. They had lived in rented rooms, but the landlord had harassed Mrs O and threatened the children physically, so they moved into his mother’s house. The council withdrew their offer of re-housing Mr O’s mother until Mr O and his family moved out. Toxteth, Liverpool, March 1969.  Co-curated by Dutch independent curator ‘The exhibition reveals a the pictures, giving added impact. They also haunting picture of lives lived show his feelings of respect for the people he Hedy van Erp and the National Media in poverty but it does disclose was photographing and he described himself Museum’s Curator of Photographs, Greg too, the human spirit surviving, as: ‘constantly amazed by people’s strength Hobson, the exhibition reveals a haunting and humbled by their tenderness’. picture of lives lived in poverty but it does whatever the conditions.’ disclose too, the human spirit surviving, W hen Nick Hedges set out on the whatever the conditions. Children play us that secure and adequate housing is documentary commission for in the street, mothers nurse their infants, the basis of a civilized urban society. Shelter he was not new to the pensioners dance and families struggle The failure of successive governments to subject. While at Birmingham against the odds. provide for it is a sad mark of society’s Art College, where he studied photography inaction. The photographs should allow us from 1965-1968, he came across a book by Often spending long periods of time to celebrate progress, yet all they can do is James Agee and Walker Evans called Let Us getting to know people, Nick Hedges made haunt us with a sense of failure.’ Now Praise Famous Men, published in 1941, numerous visits before taking pictures, that showed the plight of the sharecropping gaining their trust and willingness to His commitment is further revealed in families in the American South. This led participate. For him, the images he the extensive notes he made at the time, Hedges, in his final college project, to work produced held political significance. extracts from which are exhibited alongside ‘Although these photographs have become with Birmingham Housing Trust on a historical documents, they serve to remind

The kitchen of a council-owned slum property in Hampden Street, Balsall Heath, Birmingham, November 1969. 37 B+WMrs H of Thistle Street lived with her husband and baby boy in a tenement block which had been deserted by all other families.One morning they woke up when a demolition gang started to work. The Gorbals, Glasgow, August 1970.

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40B+W Mr and Mrs M and their four children lived in a council owned house in Vincent Crescent, Balsall Heath. Apart from the poor state of the property – no bathroom, no hot water, outside lavatory, inside walls running with damp – these children were sleeping in the middle of winter on two sodden seat cushions covered by a couple of old ‘macs’. There was no heating in the room, the snow lay thick outside and the windows were broken. Birmingham, January 1969.  documentation of the poor housing in the city. ‘The photographs should allow evidence of a photographer whose compassion It was because of this work that Shelter, a us to celebrate progress, yet all shows through into his image making. newly formed organisation concerned with they can do is haunt us with homelessness, approached him. Their brief Greg Hobson and Hedy van Erp write in was to show real people in real situations. a sense of failure.’ their introduction to the catalogue of Make From the commission, he produced over Life Worth Living: ‘This work is not simply 1,000 images which he later, in 1983, donated Make Life Worth Living is the first a document of the consequences of bad to the National Media Museum in Bradford. comprehensive showing of the work and housing. It is also a powerful record of an However, the work has only been seen in is remarkable in two aspects – that of an aspect of British social history that would have Shelter’s annual reports or occasionally in era, time and place documented with the otherwise remained hidden, and of people publications because of restrictions placed willingness of the people who were living whose voices would have been unheard. on it to protect the anonymity of the through it and, perhaps more pertinent, Hedges’ heart is in these photographs and subjects, particularly the children. their legacy is that they matter – as much today as they did when they were made.’ B+W MAKE LIFE WORTH LIVING: NICK HEDGES’ PHOTOGRAPHS FOR SHELTER, 1968-72 …runs until 18 January in the Virgin Media Studio, Media Space, Science Museum, London. Entrance free. sciencemuseum.org.uk/makelifeworthliving

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FEATURE THE ART OF THE HUNT Street photography is becoming ever more popular but the skills and techniques required are as individual as the photographers who practice it. Thomas Peck talks to Inigo Taylor and Lukas Vasilikos about their work. H ave you ever hunted something? Chased it down, Lighting is difficult to control. Instead, the photographer must followed it, captured it? Hunting is the essence of great concentrate on form and composition, and focus on content or story. street photography. The thrill of the pursuit, the split second shutter release of the shot. The hunter’s trophy There are two types of street hunter. The first is bold and ‘in is the final image, immortalising the unguarded your face’, typified by the work of Garry Winogrand in the 60s. actions of people in public spaces. The second is discrete and stealthy, typified by Henri Cartier- What makes for successful street photographers? They need to Bresson. He hid his camera, disguised it. Cartier-Bresson wanted be spontaneous, instinctual, intuitive. There is little time for set-up. to remain unobtrusive. He covered his chrome Leica in black tape. His subjects were oblivious, the images truly candid. © Inigo Taylor42B+W This image by Inigo Taylor is a great illustration of the idea of street photographer as ‘bold hunter’. The image is close up – the photographer has had to move, to approach and get behind this couple. Close enough to fill the frame with the subject. Technically, the image is classically street – there is blur, over-exposure, unwanted elements intrude upon the scene – see the third person in the gap between the two protagonists – but this doesn’t matter. In fact, it adds to the emotional impact of the story. The photographer has been spotted. The man has raised an arm as if to protect his companion. The image is in a way an intrusion, heightened by the eye-contact, right at the moment when the photographer has shot his image.

© Lukas Vasilikos 43 B+WThis picture by Lukas Vasilikos is typical of the ‘stealthy hunter’. No eye-contact, no communication between viewer and viewed. The subjectsare unaware that they have been captured on camera in a classic unguarded moment. Compositionally the image works via three simple planes. In the foreground the man gazes out of window. His companion, oblivious, lays herhead on the table exhausted. The second plane is the window frame. An effective narrative device: it encompasses the man’s field of vision anddirects our own too. Which leads us to the third plane – the young girl staring out over the balustrade. The man is watching the girl – at least thatis the implication of the picture – while the photographer, and the viewer, observe his watching. A voyeuristic capture of a voyeuristic moment.In ConversationTHOMAS PECK: Tell us about the moment you take a shot – TP: Technically how did you set up for the images?what is your mindset? LV: I use a Canon EOS 5D MkII and 35mm lens. I use a fixed lens soLUKAS VASILIKOS: Each time I go out on to the streets my I know my frame before I move the camera to my eye. Camera settingsphotographic approach changes, based on the state that I am in at and the way I handle the camera are then based on the available lightthat time, the projects that I am working on or my eagerness to start and the time of the day that I take photos.working on a new idea. When I take photos I don’t think of anything.Thinking is a process that takes place before and after the shooting. IT: I love full-frame digital cameras; for me they have helped myAt the time I take photos I only work with my instinct, every thought technique and approach improve no end. I made the transition fromcan distract me from the non-visible work that I want to create. 35mm film to digital capture fairly well, not over-shooting and not using ugly post-processing techniques so I could keep everything prettyINIGO TAYLOR: With my street photography I am always looking basic. No fuss. After all, how many street photographers have timefor images that translate a real sense of where I am at that moment. for computers? I have always experimented with focal lengths, at oneNot that all my images have to be overtly descriptive. Sometimes the point loving 28mm and moving to 35mm and then 24mm. All of themabstract and undefined can communicate atmosphere in the most require a slightly different technique. If I was asked to choose onedirect way. However I also believe the simplicity of street photography and stick with it then 28mm is my choice. My current street shootingis what makes it a universal language. set-up is two Canon EOS 5D MkII bodies, one fitted with a lovely old

© Inigo Taylor44 the flow of people and their spontaneous behaviour and actions.B+W TP: Inigo, there is often eye contact in your images, why do you like this and what does it bring to the images?  L-series 17-35mm and a 50mm on the other. For me this is the best combination for a morning’s shooting on the street. IT: Photography is always about engaging with something – the more engaging the better. There is something about eye contact that pulls TP: Lukas, you have little eye-contact in your photos. The an observer in. My very obvious engagement with my subject isn’t images are captured more secretively. Why do you like this something I want to use in every image but when it works it really and what does it bring to your images? captivates me. I think Bruce Davidson talks about ‘love affairs that last a minute’ with the women he photographed in his New York subway LV: Yes, indeed this happens in most of my photos taken in book – I can understand what he means by this. For me there are the streets and there is a reason for it. I like and I want – as no rules. Get out and shoot – if I can smell the street, it is a street photo. much as circumstances allow me – to be discreet among the people I shoot and to avoid interfering with their personal space. Another reason, equally important, is that I try to make my presence indistinct in order to avoid changing or affecting© Inigo Taylor © Inigo Taylor

© Lukas Vasilikos © Lukas Vasilikos‘Have you ever hunted something? Chased it down, followed it, captured it? Hunting is the essence of great street photography.’ 45 B+W © Lukas Vasilikos

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