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The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa presents a 134 image retrospective exhibition of Don McCullin’s intense photographic journey that began with England’s derelict areas in the late fifties, sixties and seventies to the main world conflicts he covered through the mid-eighties and is completed with his current work — landscapes and people from India, Ethiopia, and England. An English/French 120-page catalogue by Archive in Modern Conflict is available. February 1st-April 14, 2013
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| Li Zhensheng, vintage and modern composite-panoramic prints
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| Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and the 70s at the Barbican Art Gallery in London is a collective show including the works by Larry Burrows, Ernest Cole, Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, David Goldblatt, Graciela Iturbide, Boris Mikhailov, Sigmar Polke, Raghubir Singh, Malick Sidibé, Shomei Tomatsu, and Li Zhensheng. For the first time ever on display are fifty-eight original contact-prints, 35mm and 6×6, other small size vintage prints, and a personal accordeon-like Me photo-album (1960-62). Together they retrace Li’s odyssey through the turbulent decade of the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-1976) in a very intimate way: self-portraits alternate with original hand-craft composite-panoramic prints, presented under glass cases, sometimes accompanied with their envelopes or glassines bearing Li’s calligraphy. Five hugely enlarged composite-panoramics, carefully lit, occupy as many walls. Fourteen of the images appear in the show’s catalog over thirty pages with an introduction text by Robert Pledge, the curator of this photographer’s section. The catalog is published by the Barbican Art Gallery and edited by Kate Bush, the director of the gallery and general curator of the twelve photographers’ exceptional exhibition. September 13, 2012 to January 13, 2013
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Revolution in the Square, a selection of 50 images, square format framed prints, alternating with composite-panoramics, also shot with a 6×6 Rolleiflex, all by Li Zhensheng on China’s 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, are part of the second edition of the Bursa Photofest international photography festival in Turkey (September 15 to 21, 2013). The exhibition curator, Robert Pledge, will moderate a panel conversation on Chinese photography today in the presence of Li Zhensheng and Zhang Hai, whose work Don’t follow me, I am lost is presented alongside Li’s. In addition, the director of Contact Press Images will present 1961-2001: From the Berlin Wall to the Twin Towers, a commented projection of 40 years of photojournalism and history by the photographers associated with the agency.
