Location
SE21 7AD
Dates
This exhibition CLOSED on Sun, 29th Aug 2021
This exhibition has finished.
Cost: £16.50
Description
Discover the pioneering story of photography from the 1840s to today, told through stunning still lifes of plants and botany.
Unearthed: Photography's Roots will be the first exhibition to trace the history of photography as told through depictions of nature, revealing how the subject led to key advancements in the medium, from its very beginnings in 1840 to present day. It will bring together over 100 works by 35 leading international photographers, many never seen before.
Arranged chronologically and with a focus on botany throughout, the exhibition will highlight the innovations of some of the medium’s key figures, including William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) as well as several overlooked photographers including Japanese artist, Kazumasa Ogawa (1860-1929) and the English gardener, Charles Jones (1866-1959). It will be the first show to publicly exhibit work by Jones, whose striking modernist photographs of plants remained unknown until 20 years after his death, when they were discovered in a trunk at Bermondsey Market in 1981.
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