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From Emperor to Military Dictator: Shemelis Desta's Ethiopian Archive 1963-1982
This exhibition presents a selection of images from the substantial photographic archive of the Ethiopian court photographer, Shemelis Desta. These works, in colour and black & white, document the period of Ethiopian political history that included both the past rule of Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia (1930 – 74) and the military-led government of the 70s and 80s. As Desta's first major exhibition in a gallery space, this archive offers a unique insight into a secretive and tumultuous period in recent Ethiopian political history.
Throughout the world during the early 20th century societies were embracing photography as a new invention....
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Taryn Simon - An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar
An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar by Taryn Simon, a collaboration with the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main is the lead exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery this autumn. Considered one of America's new, young-generation of photographers this exhibition continues the Gallery's commitment to showcasing new talent and highlighting the best of international photographic practice to audiences in the UK.
For this project, artist Taryn Simon assumes the dual role of shrewd informant and collector of curiosities, compiling an inventory of what lies inaccessible, hidden and out-of-view within the borders of the United ...
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Seeing is Believing
Seeing is Believing is an exhibition inspired by the otherworldly. It will explore, through archival images and contemporary art practice, photography's strong relationship to the non-rational, the unknown, the intangible and the ethereal through a diverse selection of materials.
This exhibition will combine vintage photographs from the little known, but fascinating archive of the Harry Price Library of Magical Literature alongside a selection of works by seven international artists who share a fascination for the unexplained.
Known as Britain's most famous ghost investigator, Harry Price (b.1881, London) created an archive dedicated to col...
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Antoine d'Agata - Insomnia
Considered one of a new breed of Magnum photographers, Antoine d'Agata's forthcoming exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery will be his first solo exhibition in the UK. Using black & white and colour images, his work is both documentary in sense and highly subjective in style.
Distancing himself from straightforward documentary photography, d'Agata likens his role as a photographer to that of an actor, regarding his photography ‘as nothing but a lie'.
Simultaneously, he considers the world's existence, or our experience of it, as inextricably linked to its representation through images ensuring the action of looking and being are insepa...
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