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Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009
14th Jul 2011 10:30am | By Jahn Vannisselroy
Weighed against the try-hard ambiguities of conceptual art, photography is reassuringly tangible – there are still elements appreciated by a cultured eye, but the spectacle is for its own sake, independent of baffling, barely there subtexts.
This exhibition beautifully captures the raw power of a picture, the best portraits revealing something of their subjects in one poignant frame, presenting them in a disposition or location that is somehow telling.
Katherine shows a teenage girl waiting for the bus, Vicky Pollard made flesh.
In
Georgians a young couple pose awkwardly in their tiny Tbilisi flat, trying to make a go of it, while in
Ye Old Cheshire Cheese
8th Jul 2011 11:18am | By Jahn Vannisselroy
This fantastic pub is one of the few places in London that actually does justice to the term ‘ye olde’.
It was built in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666, and (in a good way) it looks like
it hasn’t changed much since then.
It’s a welcome change to find a place where the ‘olde worlde’ feel is not a newly installed figment of a chain-pub manager’s imagination.
It’s a warren of a place with nooks and crannies and several different bars and restaurants (mains under £10).
Exhibition review: Henry Moore
In 1950, Yorkshire-born Henry Moore was considered the world’s premier sculptor.
Moore was inspired by the human form, and his early work is characterised by angular lines and hard corners, while his later pieces acquire a modernist bent, fluidly misshapen and stylised.
In the way photographers abide by rules of composition, Moore’s work exemplifies the tenets of sculpture.
Where this exhibition fascinates is in tracing his approach to these conventions – as the years passed, his parameters blurred, incubating his most original and influential work.
Moore also produced hundreds of sketches of London during World War II, capturing the experience of emerging from a night sheltered in Liverpool Street station to find a ravaged city skyline falling apart amid an ashen dawn.