Painterly Photographs

24 April to 17 May 2009

Steven Spencer, Ben Ali Ong, Caroline Fraser and Benedicte Emsens

The exhibition rekindles historic debates as to the relationship between the painting and photography: if photography has established itself as an artform in its own right, why are some photographers drawing once again on painterly approaches? How does it change how we read a photograph when we're no longer sure if it is a photograph or a painting?

Each series presented in 'Painterly Photographs' shares a painterly approach, but comprise strikingly different images. The ideas driving each photographer vary greatly: from ideas of home to urban space, from myths to calligraphy.

Exhibition catalogue £9.95
Available from the Viewfinder shop, click here.

Photography workshop
17 May, 1 – 4pm
See www.viewfinder.org.uk/workshop8.html

Special event
Part of Museums at Night:
Re-photographing Greenwich, from paintings provided by Greenwich Heritage Centre.
Click here to see the photographs taken.  

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