Hiro. Betta Splendens 08048 NYC 1984
These magnificent pictures are of Siamese Fighting Fish, Betta Splendens, photographed by Hiro in the early 1980s. Continue reading
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Like A Toothbrush, It Does the Job – Don McCullin
Sir Don McCullin – Homeless Irishman Near Spitalfields, 1969
Sir Don McCullin was the marquee name at the 2016 edition of PhotoLondon. (He wasn’t knighted, as a matter of fact until the New Year Honours list of that same year, a few months later.) I was asked to write various texts in that connection, including the words to go on wall panels for a very fine one-man exhibition that Hamilton’s – his gallery for many years – put on in his honour. I wrote two more general pieces at that time, which I reproduce here in advance of his retrospective show opening at Tate Britain in 2019, which will once again put his name in the headlines. That will run 5 February – 6 May 2019. Continue reading
The Quizzical Chamois – Irving Penn’s Cranium Architecture
Chamois, Prague, 1986
Copyright © by The Irving Penn Foundation
A number of weeks ago I was asked by Hamiltons Gallery in London to write a catalogue text on a group of pictures by Irving Penn which are less known than many, but seemed to have interesting characteristics of their own. I was glad to write it, as I find that the scholarship of Penn seems a little unchanging. I hoped that by treating these pictures exactly as though they were made today, and reacting to them as if they were a recent offering by an artist at his peak, I might bring a little freshness as well as appreciation. The catalogue is beautifully produced and is now out as the show has opened. Continue reading
Francis Hodgson 