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Exhibitions at Michael Hoppen Gallery

Michael Hoppen GalleryGB

Jacques-Henri Lartigue

... C'est chic!

... C'est chic!

31 May – 31 Aug 2018
Two exhibitions curated by Paul Smith highlighting a lesser known facet of Lartigue’s magical eye: the 50s, 60s and 70s.

"In 1998, I asked Paul Smith, to write a small introduction to our very first exhibition of Jacques Henri Lartigue. He very kindly agreed. It was a seminal moment for the gallery as we were showing my favorite 20th century artist and his work was affirmed by a man who I had such huge respect for and whose style was only matched by Jacques' own. It was a perfec… more

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Thomas Mailaender

Thomas Mailaender

Thomas Mailaender

18 Apr – 26 May 2018
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce its first solo show with multimedia artist Thomas Mailaender.

Thomas Mailaender (born 1979) is a French artist living and working between Paris and Marseille known for his use of a wide range of media and his experimentation with printing processes, fixing strange and humorous found imagery onto the surface of ceramics, photography and sculpture. The resulting objects teem with curiosity and a sense of the bizarre, pairing traditional, histo… more

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Daidō Moriyama

Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama

22 Feb – 29 Mar 2018
Daido Moriyama is one of the most influential Japanese photographers of his generation. His major exhibition at Tate Modern in 2013 partnered his prints with those of William Klein and was a critical success, bringing his work to a wider audience. Moriyama's work has also been exhibited in some of the world's great museums such as MOMA, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, SFMoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fondation Cartier, Paris, Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Museum Folkwang, Essen, and… more

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Juana Gómez

Distaff

Distaff

2 Nov – 22 Dec 2017
“We are so addicted to patterns that we let them sneak into almost everything we do. Moreover, these patterns are the key to predicting many aspects of our behavior, even the darkest parts of our nature. “

Chilean artist Juana Gómez’s hand embroidered photographic canvases combine the spheres of scientific exploration with ancestral tradition. Weaving complex scientific and mythological patterns onto images of both her own and her daughters’ bodies, her work is i… more

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Sammy Slabbinck

Surreality Check

Surreality Check

1 Dec – 22 Dec 2017
Sammy Slabbinck (born 1977, Belgium) creates dynamic surrealist contemporary collages from vintage photographs. Found images are decontextualized and re-appropriated as Slabbinck plays with scale and juxtaposition. Using humour as a visual tool he choreographs compositions, meditating on the past while revealing the absurdity of popular culture. Witty, at times dark, and often visually psychedelic, the simplicity of his compositions belies the complexity of the work.

Slabbinck’s collages … more

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Lucas Foglia

Human Nature

Human Nature

12 Sep – 21 Oct 2017
Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to present Human Nature, our third exhibition by American photographer Lucas Foglia. This new series made over a three year period, Foglia explores the issues of the incessant human activity that has impacted on our natural environment so much so, that it is altering the worlds climate.

In this new series, Foglia leads us through his journey in chapters of images. Moving from city to city through forests to farms and deserts to ice fields and oceans. Scient… more

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Jim Naughten

Mountains of Kong

Mountains of Kong

12 Sep – 21 Oct 2017
Are the Mountains of Kong real? Jim Naughten’s adventures in a mythical land created by the Victorian imagination allow us believe that they might be…

Jim Naughten’s latest project takes the viewer back in time to a fabled place, which may or may not have ever existed. Acting as an explorer, scientist and photographer Naughten has documented a world that existed in the popular consciousness for over a hundred years.

The Mountains of Kong can be found on printed British maps … more

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Neil Libbert

Neil Libbert

Neil Libbert

8 Jun – 11 Aug 2017
We are delighted to announce Neil Libbert’s first major solo exhibition at the Michael Hoppen Gallery. Libbert has been working as a street photographer and photojournalist for nearly 60 years and the exhibition will focus on key works made during his earlier career. This will be the first recent opportunity to explore the full range of Libbert’s talents and will include a number of previously unseen prints such as West Indian Arrivals, Waterloo Station, 1961 or Outside the Blackie A… more

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Harry Gruyaert

Western and Eastern Light

Western and Eastern Light

9 May – 27 Jun 2017
Michael Hoppen Gallery are delighted to present ‘Western and Eastern Light,’ the first exhibition of photographs at the gallery by Belgian photographer Harry Gruyaert.

Gruyaert is a Magnum photographer who has travelled extensively over the last 30 years photographing Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and America, often by road from the comfort of his Volkswagen Kombi. He was one of the first European photographers to take advantage of the creative potential of colour photogra… more

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Untethered

Untethered

6 Apr – 20 May 2017
Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to present two photographic series, made nearly fifty years apart, that explore the vulnerability, beauty and ambivalence of adolescence.

Joe Szabo began his Teenage series when he was appointed as an art teacher at Malverne High School, Long Island in the early 1970s. He started photographing his pupils as a means of engaging with them and building mutual respect. The approach proved to be very effective and Szabo’s students became his on-going subjec… more

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Manuel Franquelo

Things in a Room

Things in a Room

7 Mar – 12 Apr 2017
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is pleased to announce the Spanish artist Manuel Franquelo’s first solo show in the United Kingdom.

The show will consist of six large-scale photographic pieces from his work in progress Things in a Room: An Ethnography of the Insignificant.

The pieces from this series, produced through techniques borrowed from scientific photography and endowed with an uncanny hyperreal presence, are an inquiry into the things that have accumulated, over the years, in the noo… more

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Enrique Metinides

Enrique Metinides

Enrique Metinides

9 Feb – 24 Mar 2017
From 1948 until his forced retirement in 1979, the Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides took thousands of images and followed hundreds of stories in and around Mexico City. And what images and stories they were: car wrecks and train derailments, a bi-plane crashed on to a roof, street stabbings and shootings in the park, apartments and petrol stations set alight, earthquakes, accidental explosions, suicides, manslaughters, murder.

When he was ten years old, his father gave him a brownie box c… more

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Chloe Sells

Measuring Infinity

Measuring Infinity

3 Dec – 23 Dec 2016
There is a place on earth that can be seen from space like a white splash across the darker skin of the surrounding land. The albino mark looks like something that has been forgotten. There is no green of tree cover. There is no blue of water. There is no brown of soil. It is emptiness.



This is the Makgadikgadi Salt Pan, a vast area in the heart of the Kalahari Desert of Botswana. Chloe Sells has been photographing there for the last two years. In her new body of work, Measuring Infinity, Se… more

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? THE IMAGE AS QUESTION

? THE IMAGE AS QUESTION

AN EXPLORATION OF EVIDENTIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

28 Sep – 26 Nov 2016
Part of the fascination with all photography is that the medium is firmly grounded in the documentary tradition. It has been used as a record of crime scenes, zoological specimens, lunar and space exploration, phrenology, fashion and importantly, art and science. It has been used as ‘proof’ of simple things such as family holidays and equally of atrocities taking place on the global stage. Any contemporary artist using photography has to accept the evidential language embedded in the… more

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Ray Stevenson

PUNK

PUNK

18 Jul – 26 Aug 2016
The Michael Hoppen Gallery in conjunction with REX SHUTTERSTOCK is delighted to present PUNK, an exhibition of vintage press prints that document the rise of punk culture in 1970s Britain. Many of the prints included are suitably distressed, with an object quality and intensity that encapsulates the movement.

The gallery was established twenty-four years ago on the Kings Road in Chelsea, an area that just over a decade earlier formed the epicentre of punk culture. In 1971 Malcolm McLaren and Vi… more

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Jacques-Henri Lartigue

The Blink of an Eye.

The Blink of an Eye.

8 Jun – 9 Aug 2016
“Lartigue is such a giant of photography today that it’s almost impossible to imagine the photographic landscape of the 20th century without him.”
William Boyd

The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce a new show exploring the ‘snapshot’ world of Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), as seen through the eyes of author William Boyd – a life long devotee of Lartigue’s luminous views on life. Lartigue took his first photograph in 1900 at the age of… more

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Eamonn Doyle

END.

END.

13 May – 15 Jul 2016
Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to present 'END.', the first solo exhibition by the Irish photographer Eamonn Doyle to be held in London. The series is the third and final installment of three bodies of work, each of which explores Doyle's native Dublin with varying stylistic techniques. His photographs are taken at close range in and around the multi-cultural, working class area of North Dublin's Parnell Street where the artist has long been a resident, and he describes… more

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Colin Jones

Retrospective

Retrospective

5 May – 3 Jun 2016
The Michael Hoppen Gallery’s very first exhibition, in 1992, was of Colin Jones. Twenty-four years later Jones’s work continues to delight audiences with its breadth and humanity and the gallery is pleased to present a retrospective exhibition of his vintage prints.

Born in 1936 Jones’s early life started with a father away at the war, evacuations and numerous different schools. A combination of chance and talent lead to a scholarship with the Royal Ballet and he embarked up… more

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Masahisa Fukase

The solitude of Ravens

The solitude of Ravens

24 Feb – 23 Apr 2016
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is very proud to present the first exhibition in the UK of vintage and early prints from Masahisa Fukase’s Solitude of Ravens.

Masahisa Fukase’s Karasu (Ravens) was made between 1976 and 1982 in the wake of his wife Yōko Wanibe divorcing him. The visual narrative of the series revolves around the anthropomorphic form of the raven. Dead and alive the birds punctuate the work; lone birds reduced to shadow puppetry against the snow or dislocated flocks… more

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VOCES: LATIN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 1980 - 2015

VOCES: LATIN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY 1980 - 2015

10 Oct 2015 – 10 Jan 2016
VOCES (Voices): Latin American Photography 1980 - 2015, will open at the Michael Hoppen Gallery October 12th, 2015. The exhibition includes some of the most influential and recognised Latin American photographers as well as emerging artists who use the photographic medium as a form of individual expression. The gallery will exhibit works by artists from Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Brazil. The dialogue that emerges revolves around important themes of memory and identity within a socio-political … more

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Sammy Slabbinck

Sammy Slabbinck

Sammy Slabbinck

1 Dec 2015 – 7 Jan 2016
Sammy Slabbinck (born 1977, Belgium) creates dynamic surrealist contemporary collage reminiscent of the great Jacques Prévert.

Found magazine images are decontextualized and re-appropriated as Slabbinck plays with scale and juxtaposition. more

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Simon Norfolk

Time Taken

Time Taken

3 Aug – 8 Sep 2015
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce Simon Norfolk’s third exhibition of photographs with the gallery: Time Taken, a poetic tracing of time on the war-torn landscape of Afghanistan.

Between 2013 and 2014 Simon Norfolk visited the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan, an area of the country once famous for its 170 foot tall Buddhas and more so now for their demise at the hands of the Taliban in 2001. Setting up his camera at over a dozen locations over a twelve-month period, Norfol… more

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Karl Blossfeldt

KARL BLOSSFELDT

KARL BLOSSFELDT

The prints will be on sale online from the the 23rd of June

23 Jun – 1 Aug 2015


Our new online exhibition features a wide selection of spectacular first edition photogravures by Karl Blossfeldt who practised as a photographer, sculptor and a design teacher in the 1920’s. Experienced and new collectors will have a unique opportunity to own this legendary artist's work. Photogravures are priced from £200 + vat each.

"LIKE LILLIPUTIANS WE OBSERVERS WANDER AMONGST THESE GIGANTIC PLANTS" - WALTER BENJAMIN, 1929


Whether you are interested in the … more

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Miyako Ishiuchi

FRIDA

FRIDA

13 May – 12 Jul 2015



Frida by Ishiuchi Miyako (2013) is a photographic record of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s wardrobe and belongings. Following Kahlo’s death in 1954 her husband Diego Riviera began placing her personal effects into the bathroom of their Mexico City house, “The Blue House”, which later became the Museo Frida Kahlo. Riviera gave instructions that this room should remain sealed until fifteen years after his death and it in fact remained unopened until 2004 when the museum de… more

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Samantha Roddick

Hidden Within

Hidden Within

20 Mar – 1 May 2015
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is very proud to unveil Samantha Roddick's first artistic project, Hidden Within. Best known as the original founder of the erotic boutique, Coco de Mer, Roddick has long been exploring our cultural relationship to sex. In this project, which has occupied her for the last couple of years, she turns her attention to the subject of the sexual objectification of women. Roddick takes as her creative muse the twentieth century Italian architect and designer Carlo Molli… more

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Noé Sendas

The Lady Vanishes

The Lady Vanishes

22 Feb – 31 Mar 2015



The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to present The Lady Vanishes, a special exhibition of works from the photographic collaboration between Wallpaper*, Noé Sendas and Jan Lehner. The exhibition opens during London Fashion Week AW15 and will run until 31 March 2015.

Noé Sendas (born in Brussels, 1972, lives and works in Berlin & Madrid) began presenting his work in the late nineties.The exploration of loss is a central motif underlying Noé Sendas repertoire. Emplo… more

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Guy Bourdin

Walking legs

Walking legs

6 Feb – 28 Mar 2015


To coincide with the UK’s largest ever exhibition of the influential and enigmatic fashion photographer Guy Bourdin at Somerset House, the Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to exhibit a wonderful group of images "Walking Legs".

Officially being unveiled alongside Somerset House’s show ‘Image-Maker’, ‘Walking Legs’, is one of Bourdin's most loved Charles Jourdan campaign series. 'Walking legs' was shot in 1979 by the French designe… more

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Kikuji Kawada

The Last Cosmology

The Last Cosmology

1 Dec 2014 – 23 Jan 2015
“I was born at the beginning of the Showa Era. There was a great war during my boyhood and then I lived during the period of re-construction and growth and now I slowly approach the evening of life. Through these photographs the cosmology is an illusion of the firmament at the same time it includes the reality of an era and also the cosmology of a changing heart” Kikuji Kawada


The Michael Hoppen Gallery is proud to announce the first solo UK exhibition of Kikuji Kawada&r… more

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Sohei Nishino

New Dioramas

New Dioramas

30 Oct 2014 – 7 Jan 2015
The Diorama Maps project is a joyous mixture of photography and cartography, inspired in part by the 18th century Japanese map-maker Ino Tadataka. To make his “Diorama Maps,” Sohei Nishino spends months in a city, exploring its many vantage points. During this time he shoots thousands of pictures, which he then painstakingly hand-prints, trims to size, and compiles into huge tableaux collages from which he issues the limited edition photographic prints in two sizes. The effect is not… more

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Negativeless

Negativeless

19 Sep – 24 Oct 2014
In a world of photography where digital ‘snaps’ are becoming the tedious norm, the Michael Hoppen Gallery presents a show navigating an area of photography that little is known about: the photograph made without a negative. No, not a photogram - but a photograph. We will present a wonderful mix of works, from rare early daguerreotypes through to contemporary takes on these early techniques.

Photographs were invented to be reproduced on demand. The London Stereoscopic Company, as an… more

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Lucien Hervé

Lucien Hervé

Lucien Hervé

6 Sep – 24 Oct 2014


The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of photographs by Lucien Hervé to run alongside Constructing Worlds, Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age at the Barbican Centre (25 September 2014 – 11 January 2015).

We will display vintage works together with rare contact sheets that act as a visual “sketch book” offering a rare insight into how Hervé worked.

Lucien Hervé (b. László Elkán 1910 - 2007) is … more

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William Klein

Solo Exhibition

10 Jul – 6 Sep 2014
Following his Retrospective at Tate Modern last year, the Michael Hoppen Gallery is hosting an exhibition of large editioned works and unique painted contacts by William Klein. A combination of both Klein's reportage and fashion prints, the exhibition is a testament to the daring photographic techniques that secured him fame in both genres.

William Klein is one of the 20th century’s most important photographers and filmmakers. As an artist using photography, Klein set out to re-inven… more

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Harold Edgerton

ABSTRACTIONS

ABSTRACTIONS

Dr. Harold Edgerton

6 Jun – 2 Aug 2014
Photography has illuminated so many areas of the 20th century, but none more so than the remarkable work by one of photography’s true pioneers, Dr. Harold Edgerton. As an Institute Professor at MIT and the inventor of the ‘strobe’ flash in the early 1930s, the ‘Doc.’ as he was affectionately known, stopped time in its tracks.
His influence is still felt today, as we still use his invention in contemporary flash cameras, although their size has somewhat changed.


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Lucas Foglia

FRONTCOUNTRY

FRONTCOUNTRY

28 Mar – 10 May 2014
‘This little town has nothing. It’s dying on the vine. But when the company opens a mine here, it’ll bring jobs and make everything bigger and better. There are people who want that boost to the community. I’m not one of them. The mine will ruin this mountain and you’ll never find land this beautiful anywhere else.’ Randy Stowell, Big Springs Ranch, Oasis, Nevada 2012.Between 2006 and 2013, Lucas Foglia travelled throughout rural Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Me… more

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Sarah Moon

About colour

About colour

20 Feb – 5 Apr 2014
It is difficult to summarise Sarah Moon's fantastical photography: almost thirty years of image making has made Sarah Moon a legend in her own lifetime.

Well-known for her personalised commercial and editorial work since the early 1970s, Moon has continued to investigate a dream world of her own invention, without repetition or compromise.

Moon’s heart-stopping fashion images have bucked every so-called commercial trend, from the need to establish eye contact, it is only rarely th… more

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Henry Bradford Washburn

ON HIGH

ON HIGH

6 Dec 2013 – 14 Feb 2014


Ansel Adams called Washburn a "roving genius of mind and mountains." He pioneered photographic techniques that captured some of the most remote and inaccessible locations on earth.

The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to be showcasing a large body of Bradford Washburn’s lifetime works. Accompanied by a collection of notebooks and diaries pertaining to his career the show hopes to pay homage to Washburn both as mountaineer and as artist.

Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. (1910 -… more

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Miyako Ishiuchi

Solo Exhibition

18 Sep – 23 Nov 2013
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is honoured to host its second major exhibition of work by the highly esteemed Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi. Displayed across all three floors of the gallery, the show will include photographs from her early trilogy ‘Yokosuka Story’(1976-1977), ‘Apartment’(1977-1978), and ‘Endless Night’ (1981); then prints from 'Hiroshima’ and works from her most recent series ‘Silken Dreams’, exhibited now for the ve… more

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Chloe Sells

Senescence

Senescence

21 Jun – 31 Aug 2013
Michael Hoppen Contemporary is delighted to present a new series of photographic works by Chloe Sells titled Senescence. This exhibition marks the first solo show of Sells’ work at Michael Hoppen Contemporary.

Informed by extensive travel, residence and immersion in countries foreign to her, Sells explores the question of how places are defined, while speculating on the consequences of human experience of place. Is a place fixed, or continually shifting? Do people shape the particularitie… more

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Gunnar Smoliansky

One Picture at a Time

One Picture at a Time

Vintage prints by a Swedish master

5 Jul – 31 Aug 2013
“The best milieu for me is one where it is almost entirely impossible to photograph, where you kind of have to make something out of nothing”.

Born on the Swedish island of Gotsby, Gunnar Smoliansky was obsessed with the camera from the age of eighteen when he bought his own Rolleiflex. As with Ingmar Bergman who launched his film career a decade after Smoliansky’s birth, he used his homeland almost exclusively as the subject of his work. Also like Bergman, his work is possess… more

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Nobuyoshi Araki

Solo Exhibition

2 May – 8 Jun 2013
MICHAEL HOPPEN CONTEMPORARY is delighted to announce a new show of work by the Japanese photographer NOBUYOSHI ARAKI.

In continuing our exploration and presentation of important Japanese photography, Michael Hoppen Gallery will this year stage major solo shows of two of its grand masters: Nobuyoshi Araki and later in the year, Miyako Ishiuchi. Each an artist with a unique vision and aesthetic, both producing highly charged work in examining the sensitive subjects of that society.

Araki is the … more

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Brett Weston

Nudes & Dunes

Nudes & Dunes

2 Apr – 24 Apr 2013
Michael Hoppen is very pleased to exhibit for the first time in the United Kingdom a comprehensive vintage selection of Brett Weston’s Nudes and Dunes.

Born in 1911, the son and apprentice of legendary photographer Edward Weston, Brett applied himself to
photography from an early age. Moving with his father to Mexico aged thirteen he was introduced to Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco and Tina Modotti. His father’s radical sense of composition and his exposure to modern art imbued … more

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Michael Eastman

Havana

Havana

13 Feb – 28 Mar 2013
Michael Hoppen Contemporary is delighted to announce an exhibition of Michael Eastman's Havana series. This magical body of work exposes the colourful and crumbling interiors and exteriors of Cuba's capital. Eastman is recognized for his large-scale photographs of the world's most beautiful cities including Rome, Paris, and New Orleans. Inspired by Aaron Siskind, Eastman is transfixed by the textures of architectural decay and the narrative they reveal about the life of a building… more

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Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers

To celebrate the gallery's 20 years

11 Dec 2012 – 31 Jan 2013
To celebrate the gallery's 20 years, Michael Hoppen unveils the treasures of his extraordinary private photography collection in the gallery's largest public exhibition to date. Presented over three floors, Finders Keepers brings to light 130 photographic gems, handpicked for their fascinating narrative, masterful technique and historical relevance, ranging from anonymous 19th century pictures to iconic post-war snapshots. Finders Keepers offers a unique journey through hundreds of captivating p… more

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Lucas Foglia

A Natural Order

A Natural Order

1 Nov – 1 Dec 2012
Lucas Foglia
A Natural Order

1st November - 1st December

Michael Hoppen Contemporary is delighted to announce the first UK exhibition of Lucas Foglia's beautiful and internationally acclaimed series A Natural Order, which is accompanied by the highly commended photo book of the same title.

Lucas Foglia grew up on a farm on Long Island just 30 miles from Manhattan. His parents were part of the post 1960's "back to the land movement". Much of the area surrounding the family… more

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Daidō Moriyama

Tights & Lips

Tights & Lips

7 Sep – 20 Oct 2012
Daido MoriyamaTights + Lips7 September – 20 October 2012Michael Hoppen Contemporary is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by one of the giant’s of Japanese photography, Daido Moriyama. This latest group of pictures entitled “Tights” is the development of his famous earlier series “How to Create a Beautiful Picture 6: Tights in Shimotakaido” of 1987, a small selection of images depicting close-up shots of legs in fishnets. The complete series now nu… more

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Ellen von Unwerth

Do not Disturb

Do not Disturb

21 Jun – 22 Aug 2012
Ellen Von Unwerth: “Do not Disturb!”21st June - 31st AugustMichael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to present an exclusive, new body of work from Ellen von Unwerth entitled “Do Not Disturb!” Straight from the camera to the wall, this latest series of photographs has all the sexy motifs of Ellen’s signature style. The Madonna Inn, LA, sets the scene for these highly stylised and richly coloured images of women, who range from the delicate coquette to robust dominatrix. E… more

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Valérie Belin

Yohoho

Yohoho

31 May – 7 Jul 2012
Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to present the latest series of works by the French artist Valérie Belin. The new exhibition will showcase twelve black and white silver gelatin prints, from her new series YOHOHO.Taking as her subject the famous burlesque, cabaret clubs of Paris, Belin shot all the film at Le Moulin Rouge and Le Lido. She then carefully constructed each image by layering two negatives together, creating luminous studies of a familiar yet mysterious world, and all th… more

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Alex Prager

Compulsion

Compulsion

20 Apr – 26 May 2012
Alex Prager - Compulsion20 April – 26 May 2012 Michael Hoppen is pleased to present Compulsion, an exhibition of new work by contemporary artist Alex Prager. The exhibition will feature a selection of colour photographs from the series, as well as the artist’s new short film, La Petite Mort, with accompanying film stills. The exhibition will be shown simultaneously in London, Los Angles and New York.MoMA curator Roxana Marcoci has described Prager’s work as “intentionally… more

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Christer Strömholm

Les Amies de Place Blanche

Les Amies de Place Blanche

20 Apr – 26 May 2012
Christer Strömholm Les Amies de la Place Blanche 20th April – 26th May 2012Private View - Thursday 19th April 2012, 6.30pm – 8.30pm"These are images from another time…These are images of people whose lives I shared…These are images of women - biologically born as men - that we call 'transsexuals'. As for me, I call them 'my friends of Place Blanche'. This friendship started here, in the early 60s and it still continues." Christer Str&o… more

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Guy Bourdin

Solo Exhibition

2 Feb – 5 Apr 2012
Guy Bourdin 2nd February – 10th March 2012Michael Hoppen Contemporary is delighted to announce an exhibition of work by the legendary fashion photographer Guy Bourdin.Guy Bourdin, born in Paris in 1928, was one of the most radical and influential fashion photographers of the twentieth century. His unique blend of surreal and erotic imagery filled the pages of international magazines such as French Vogue during the 1970s and also became synonymous with the revolutionary advertising campaig… more

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Hisaji Hara

Solo Exhibition

24 Feb – 31 Mar 2012
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to be exhibiting a series of beautiful, monochrome portraits by Hisaji Hara who has modelled his photographic compositions upon paintings by Balthus (1908-2001), one of the most revered and controversial artists of the twentieth century.In the style of the Modern Master, Hara creates scenes imbued with an unsettling combination of innocence and eroticism. The models have the light, unselfconscious attitudes of playful children and yet their postures invite… more

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Boris Savelev

Colour Constructions

Colour Constructions

2 Dec 2011 – 21 Jan 2012
Boris Savelev – Colour ConstructionsThe Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce that we will be hosting our second exhibition of Boris Savelev's new work across both floors at the gallery in December.Regarded by many now as one of Russia's most important living photographers, Savelev is an artist at the peak of his career. Working with Factum in Madrid, Savelev has again used this extraordinary and proprietary printing process that allows him to fully realise his photogra… more

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JERUSALEM

JERUSALEM

7 Oct – 12 Nov 2011
JERUSALEMCharles JonesColin JonesJohn Davies7 October - 12 November 2011 Through the eyes of three Great British analytical photographers, this exhibition documents British life across the twentieth century. The pictures seem to capture the simplicity of a bygone era; however, in doing so they also challenge the changes taking place today, forcing us to interrogate our individual responsibilities towards the country we live in.In this increasingly uncertain world, in which the individual is so o… more

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Alejandro Chaskielberg

High Tide

High Tide

8 Sep – 1 Oct 2011
HIGH TIDE - Alejandro ChaskielbergThursday 8th September - Saturday 1st October 2011Private View - Wednesday 7th September, 7pm - 9pmMichael Hoppen Contemporary is delighted to announce HIGH TIDE, an exhibition of new work by Argentinean photographer Alejandro Chaskielberg, overall winner of this year's Sony World Photo Awards. HIGH TIDE is a series of colour photographs taken in the remote Paraná River Delta, Argentina, where Chaskielberg lived and worked from 2007 - 2010. His subje… more

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Ken Griffiths

PATAGONIA

PATAGONIA

15 Jul – 27 Aug 2011
PatagoniaImages by Ken GriffithsIn 2001 and 2002 photographer Ken Griffiths set out on three expeditions to the Argentine province of Chubut, the heartland of Welsh Patagonia.  Ken visited Chubut in different seasons of the year to follow the trails blazed south and west by intrepid young Welsh pioneers. Between 1870 and 1900 they travelled the interior of the country and reached the Andes along what is now the Chilean frontier.  Ken decided that he wanted to avoid all the clich&e… more

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Made in Hungary

Made in Hungary

9 Jul – 20 Aug 2011
Made in HungaryLucien AignerBrassaï Révész BíróRobert ByszzRobert CapaElemérné de MarsovszkyKároly DanassyKároly EscherPál Funk AngeloIstvan HangaLucien HervéKata KálmánIstván KernyAndré KertészImre KinszkiErzsébet LeichtnerLászló Moholy-NagyMartin MunkácsiJanos OrphanidesGyula PapJolan VadasThe Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to present an exhibition of r… more

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Burke and Norfolk: Photographs from the war in Afghanistan

Burke and Norfolk: Photographs from the war in Afghanistan

13 May – 18 Jun 2011
Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the war in Afghanistan13th May - 18th June 2011“Burke is an enigma; working with him was like looking for a man amongst shadows. He left no diaries or records, unlike other Imperial photographers from the same generation. There are no photographs of him. In a couple of sketches we see him from behind, but never his face; that has to be more than just reticence, surely?”  Simon NorfolkMichael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to present a new series… more

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Sohei Nishino

Diorama maps

Diorama maps

24 Feb – 2 Apr 2011
Sohei Nishino is one of the rising stars of contemporary Japanese photography. Discovered in 2008 by Michael Hoppen, 28 year old Nishino’s extraordinary photographic dioramas, monumental in size, map out the artist’s personal impressions of the world’s major cities in several thousand intimate details.Never before exhibited outside of Asia, Michael Hoppen Contemporary will present the Diorama Map series for his inaugural European show, featuring twelve of the artist's most… more

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Leopoldo Pomés

Vintage Prints

Vintage Prints

9 Dec 2010 – 22 Jan 2011
Leopoldo PomésVintage PrintsDecember 9th 2010 - January 22nd 2011Photographs by Leopoldo Pomés will be exhibited for the first time in the UK at Michael Hoppen Gallery in December. Born in Barcelona in 1931, Pomés, a self-taught photographer, had a highly successful and celebrated late career in advertising in his native Spain. However, it is his evocative early photographs of Barcelona that will form the basis of this new exhibition. Taken between 1947 and 1969 these vintage pho… more

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Robert Bergman

A Kind of Rapture

A Kind of Rapture

14 Oct – 27 Nov 2010
ROBERT BERGMAN: A KIND OF RAPTURE14 OCTOBER - 27 NOVEMBER 2010“Occasionally there arises an event or a moment that one knows immediately will forever mark a place in the history of artistic endeavor. Robert Bergman’s portraits represent such a moment, such an event.” Toni MorrisonMichael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to present the very first European show of American photographer Robert Bergman’s colour portraits, opening on 14th October 2010. In the tradition of sponta… more

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Mary McCartney

From Where I Stand

From Where I Stand

22 Oct – 20 Nov 2010
Mary McCartneyFrom Where I Stand 22nd October - 20th NovemberFrom Where I Stand reveals the very best work selected from Mary McCartney’s complete archive from the 1990s to date. This first solo exhibition of work at the gallery will coincide with the book launch of From Where I Stand produced by Thames & Hudson. From portraits to photographs of the raw energy backstage and onstage at fashion shows, rock concerts, the theatre and ballet, as well as vignettes of the surreal and the curi… more

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Shômei Tômatsu

Solo Exhibition

9 Sep – 9 Oct 2010
SHOMEI TOMATSU & DAIDO MORIYAMA

The work of Daido Moryiama and Shomei Tomatsu, the two giants of the Japanese post-war movement presented side by side for the first time in the UK, will be unveiled at the Michael Hoppen Gallery on 9 September. While their photographs differ in style, sentiment is common to both. They address love, anguish and anger with equal power, passion and subtlety.

Despite being relatively unknown outside his home country, seventy-seven year old Shomei Tomatsu is widely … more

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Daidō Moriyama

Solo Exhibition

9 Sep – 9 Oct 2010
SHOMEI TOMATSU & DAIDO MORIYAMA

The work of Daido Moryiama and Shomei Tomatsu, the two giants of the Japanese post-war movement presented side by side for the first time in the UK, will be unveiled at the Michael Hoppen Gallery on 9 September. While their photographs differ in style, sentiment is common to both. They address love, anguish and anger with equal power, passion and subtlety.

Despite being relatively unknown outside his home country, seventy-seven year old Shomei Tomatsu is widely … more

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Guy Bourdin

Unseen

Unseen

26 Jul – 5 Sep 2010
26 July - 5 September 2010
Guy Bourdin

Michael Hoppen Contemporary is now exclusively representing the estate of Guy Bourdin. Works from the Unseen series are now on display in the contemporary gallery. more

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Russia!

Russia!

30 Jun – 7 Aug 2010
Michael Hoppen Gallery is pleased to present a unique selection of rarely viewed Russian photographs:

Boris Savelev was born in the Ukraine in 1948 and moved to Moscow in 1966. He is a graduate of the Institute of Aeronautics and joined the Moscow photography club Novator in 1970. He became a full time photographer since 1982and has had numerous exhibitions worldwide. He is one of the best-knownphotographers working in Russia today. Savelev’s work is about light and form-not people, but his… more

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Alex Prager

Solo Exhibition

10 Jun – 17 Jul 2010
ALEX PRAGER
10 JUNE – 17 JULY 2010

Michael Hoppen Contemporary will present the most recent work by rising American photographer Alex Prager. Following the success of her 2008 critically acclaimed exhibit, The Big Valley, the exhibition will stage the continuation of Prager’s Los Angeles narrative, as she contrives the next generation of retro-modern damsels.

Women adorned with wigs and staged in neon Californian landscapes result in timeless, eerie and compelling images. Her larg… more

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Daniele Tamagni

Gentlemen of Bacongo

Gentlemen of Bacongo

7 May – 5 Jun 2010
DANIELE TAMAGNI'S - "Gentlemen of Bacongo"
ARAMINTA DE CLERMONT'S - "Before Life…"

Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to bring together two contemporary photographers who have documented the sartorial expressions of particular communities in the Congo and South Africa. Daniele Tamagni and Araminta de Clermont befriend their respective subjects and utilize the camera to create unique records of their chosen circles. Tamagni's images brilliantly capture the energy and pride of ‘Les Sape… more

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Araminta de Clermont

Before Life..

Before Life..

7 May – 5 Jun 2010
DANIELE TAMAGNI'S - "Gentlemen of Bacongo"
ARAMINTA DE CLERMONT'S - "Before Life…"

Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to bring together two contemporary photographers who have documented the sartorial expressions of particular communities in the Congo and South Africa. Daniele Tamagni and Araminta de Clermont befriend their respective subjects and utilize the camera to create unique records of their chosen circles. Tamagni's images brilliantly capture the energy and pride of ‘Les Sape… more

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Miroslav Tichý

Solo Exhibition

28 Apr – 29 May 2010
The recently unknown photographic work of Czech artist Miroslav Tichy has become a noteworthy presence in the worlds of photography and contemporary art over the last few years. Timeless and uncategorizable, Tichy's work captures the women of Kijov, from the artist's native city in Moravia. On 28 April 2010, the Michael Hoppen Gallery will bring together unique photographs, previously unseen in the UK, created in the 1960's by Tichy with his makeshift cameras and enlargers.

Marginal and except… more

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Yoshihiko Ueda

Quinault

Quinault

24 Mar – 1 May 2010
Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to present the first exhibition in Europe of Japanese photographer Yoshihiko Ueda's work. For this debut show we are presenting Ueda's remarkable series Quinault - images made in the 1990s in a rare and ancient coniferous rain forest in Washington State, USA. The images Ueda created are potent with the seductive otherworldliness and glowing dampness of the wet terrain. Deep, dark greens and blues reflect the intensity of Ueda's time in the forest and the sp… more

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Fernand Fonssagrives

Solo Exhibition

14 Jan – 24 Apr 2010
Fernand Fonssagrives

The Michael Hoppen gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of work by one of America's foremost fashion photographers Fernand Fonssagrives.
Once the highest paid photographers in the world, he was ambivalent about the acclaim he received in his chosen field, preferring to remain anonymous. Little was written about him, even at the peak of his success. He was linked to the early 'Design Laboratory' classes of Alexey Brodovitch, and was a key member of the close knit… more

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Kishin Shinoyama

NUDE

NUDE

14 Jan – 20 Feb 2010
Still hard at work well into his late 70s, Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama's images have lost none of the potency that would make his 1960's nude studies so revered and sensationalized in equal measure. Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to announce the first exhibition of his work in the UK, which will focus on his most iconic series- Birth, Twin, Death Valley, Brown Lilly and Phantom, as well as studies of a dancer, also from the 1960s.

Shinoyama was born in Tokyo in 194… more

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Weegee

It's a crime to take photographs this good...

It's a crime to take photographs this good...

An exhibition of early photographs by Weegee the Famous.

25 Nov 2009 – 9 Jan 2010
'It's a crime to take photographs this good...'An exhibition of early photographs by Weegee the Famous.Always in the right place at the right time, Weegee's lense was perpetually aimed the visceral and sometimes violent city of New York. In 1993, Wilma Fellig Weegee's widow, bequeathed his entire archive of original prints to the ICP in New York, and we are delighted offer selected pieces of this unique photographers work which includes many images never previously seen in the UK.Weegee photogra… more

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COLOUR

COLOUR

25 Nov 2009 – 9 Jan 2010
How do you describe colour?

Even the dictionary definition of it is poetic:

That aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of the light reflected or emitted by them, definable interms of the observer or of the light.

And;

a substance, such as a dye, pigment, or paint,that imparts a hue.

And;

a reddening of the face; a blush.

The scientific words to objectify it are beautiful too: hyperchromatism, wavelength, luminance, iridescence and purity.

Since 1861 and the first perman… more

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Ellen von Unwerth

Fräulein

Fräulein

22 Oct – 21 Nov 2009
Ellen von Unwerth
Fräulein

Ellen von Unwerth worked as a fashion model for ten years before moving behind the camera. Quoted as saying "(Women) are not just there to be admired, they are there to be enjoyed," her erotically charged images of models, film and music stars are as well know as the subjects of the photographs themselves. The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce 'Fräulein'; a show of personal favourites and never previously seen images from the last 15 years.

The exhibi… more

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Revive

Revive

27 Jul – 9 Sep 2009
REVIVE

Group Show

Michael Hoppen Contemporary 27th July 2009 – 9th September 2009

As an antidote to hot, sticky mid season sales shopping on the King's Road, Michael Hoppen Contemporary will treat visitors to an exhibition intended to visually refresh and revive them.

A group show containing images of cool water, inviting shade, snowy climes and lagoon-like pools has been chosen, to counteract what may well be the hottest summer for many years.

Dive in.more

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A Gallerist's Choice

A Gallerist's Choice

4 Jul – 31 Aug 2009
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce our summer show - 'A Gallerist's Choice'. Delving into our substantial holdings of rare photographs at the gallery, we have selected a stunning array of beautiful and rarely seen images to savour and enjoy. This is a rare opportunity to buy these seldom seen images.Works by Abelardo Morell, Peter Beard, William Klein, Alexander Rodchenko, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Roger Mayne, Desiree Dolron, Sarah Moon, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Fernand Fonssagr… more

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Ofer Wolberger

(Life with) Maggie

(Life with) Maggie

4 Jun – 25 Jul 2009
Within today's predominantly visual culture, photography has been a powerful vehicle that contemporary artists have used to examine notions of identity and conflicts of self-perception. This June, Michael Hoppen Contemporary is delighted to announce an exploration of these themes by Ofer Wolberger in his collaborative project (Life with) Maggie.

Maggie - always portrayed by Wolberger's fiancée Billie Martineau - is a fictional character who seems transported from another time and place, a worl… more

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Boris Savelev

32 years

32 years

21 Apr – 30 May 2009
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce 31 Years; an exhibition of work by Boris Savelev, one of Russia's most important and renowned photographers. It will be the first time his work will be shown in the UK.

31 Years is a series of photographs created by Savelev from 1976 to 2006. It documents not only his changing sensibilities and aesthetic concerns; light and form, flashes of colour, moments created by the interaction of individuals within their urban landscape, but also his exp… more

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Miyako Ishiuchi

Solo Exhibition

12 Mar – 16 Apr 2009
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is honoured to host the first European retrospective of work by Miyako Ishiuchi, Japan's foremost female photographer. Taking over both floors of the gallery, it will be the first time images from the series 'Mother's' (2000-2005), '1906 To the Skin' (1991-1993) and 'Yokosuka Story' (1976-1977) have been shown in Britain. Curated by Dutch photographer and Japanese photography specialist Machiel Botman, the exhibition comes to us from Foam Museum Amsterdam and La Filatu… more

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Scarlett Hooft Graafland

You Winter, let's get divorced

You Winter, let's get divorced

5 Feb – 10 Mar 2009
This February, we are delighted to announce our second solo exhibition of work by Dutch artist Scarlett Hooft Graafland.

In this new series, Hooft Graafland successfully combines straight photographic practise with performance and sculpture. The resulting work is delightful - visually engaging yet constantly referring to a more profound cultural discourse. Using a surrealist language of intriguing visual jokes, Hooft Graafland wittily alludes to her anthropological interests and environmental … more

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HOUSE by Rachel Whiteread, documented by John Davies 1993-1995

HOUSE by Rachel Whiteread, documented by John Davies 1993-1995

13 Jan – 31 Jan 2009
HOUSE by Rachel Whiteread, documented by John Davies 1993-1995

Michael Hoppen Contemporary 13th-31st January 2009

Narrative landscape photographer, John Davies, captures the British landscape in a permanent state of flux. His black and white photographs show the vast, complex and majestic scenery of industrial and post industrial Britain. He establishes classical geometries within his unique vision that take on a mystical appeal. His works are coolly detached and seductive, showing moments of … more

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Secret City

Secret City

20 Nov 2008 – 12 Jan 2009
Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition exploring two contrasting perspectives on a city theme this December. Images from Secret City, Langer's ten-year retrospective of urban portraits and nudes will be shown alongside rare vintage prints documenting Doisneau's sixty year love affair with Paris and its inhabitants. Robert Doisneau's name and iconic images have become synonymous with what we know of 1940s Parisian street life. Doisneau's Paris is full of individuals and per… more

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Nobuyoshi Araki

Hana Kinbaku

Hana Kinbaku

20 Nov 2008 – 10 Jan 2009
This November, Michael Hoppen Contemporary is pleased to announce a new exhibition of work by one of Japan's greatest artists, Nobuyoshi Araki. The gallery will present a series of handmade, one-off diptychs, never before seen in the UK. Araki's Hana Kinbaku works are photographic diptych studies of flowers (hana) and bondage (kinbaku- the ancient and highly skilled art of Japanese erotic restraint). In this body of work, Araki physically, and imperfectly, tapes the images into diptychs, accentu… more

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Simon Norfolk

Full Spectrum Dominance

Full Spectrum Dominance

9 Oct – 17 Nov 2008
We are delighted to announce Full Spectrum Dominance, the first solo exhibition of work by Simon Norfolk at Michael Hoppen Contemporary.

This new series of photographs of military rocket and missile launches in America continues Norfolk's exploration of the Sublime in the landscape. To capture these images, Norfolk gained access into the guarded world of satellite launches and nuclear missile tests at locations including Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

These missile… more

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Sarah Moon

1,2,3,4,5

1,2,3,4,5

17 Oct – 17 Nov 2008
For over three decades, Sarah Moon has been making fantastically personal images. This October her prolific career will be celebrated with the publication of a new and comprehensive book of her extraordinary work, and the launch of two exciting satellite exhibitions in London.

Firstly the Royal College of Art, will exhibit over 150 black and white photographs and large-scale color works, spanning Sarah Moon's entire career, and two new film installations, The Red Thread and The Mermaid. The Mi… more

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Lucien Hervé

Solo Exhibition

6 Sep – 11 Oct 2008
"The Soul of an Architect" - Le Corbusier

We are delighted to announce our second exhibition of photographs by Lucien Hervé. This exhibition will include rare vintage prints from Le Corbusier's L'habitation exhibition in 1953, colour portraits of Zaha Hadid, architectural photographs of the Eiffel Tower and colour works of the artist's apartment.

"It is known that Le Corbusier was interested in the metamorphic process unique to photography" the inverting of black and white from negative to pr… more

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Tiina Itkonen

Ultima Thule

Ultima Thule

3 Sep – 7 Oct 2008
"On my first trip to Greenland, I was told I would definitely be coming back. According to a Greenlandic tale, a human being can turn into a qivigtoq, run around the fells, live there and finally die there. My desire to return to Greenland goes beyond reason. On one of my trips there I tried to shake off this madness and leave wandering in the northern landscapes, like a qivigtoq. I did not succeed."

We are delighted to announce our second exhibition by Finnish artist, Tiina Itkonen. These larg… more

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Joseph Szabo

Jones Beach

Jones Beach

1 Aug – 19 Sep 2008
For the past 30 years against the backdrop of the Atlantic Ocean, Joseph Szabo has captured the melting pot of humanity on one of the America's busiest beaches. We are delighted to announce Jones Beach, our second exhibition of photographs by Szabo.

Amongst the sea of bodies on Jones Beach, Szabo's camera isolates both rare moments of introspection and unashamed exuberance. Images of tanned muscle men, a catwalk display of beach wear, heavily oiled skin, masses of sprayed hair and shy adolesce… more

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Polly Borland

BUNNY

BUNNY

25 Jun – 2 Aug 2008
Sometimes it is the masks and guise one wears that reveal the naked truths about someone. Gwen is a truly fascinating person and when I first laid eyes on her I fell in love with her. She looked like a blonde fifties starlet or a pinup girl but she was different - she was very, very tall – a circus performer perhaps, or reminiscent of a character out of a fairytale.....
Polly Borland

Bunny is a series of images by Polly Borland that create a portrait of an extremely tall girl called Gwen. Com… more

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Miroslav Tichý

Solo Exhibition

12 Jun – 31 Jul 2008
We are delighted to announce our second exhibition of unique work by Miroslav Tichy to coincide with a solo exhibition of his photographs at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and two new publications of his work. Since the Michael Hoppen Gallery first exhibited work by Tichy in 2006 he has become a key reference in the worlds of photography and contemporary art.

For thirty years, Miroslav Tichy took up to one hundred photographs each day pursuing his artistic obsession of the female form. Dressed i… more

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Ruth Orkin

The Making of a Classic

The Making of a Classic

1 Jun – 15 Jul 2008
The Michael Hoppen Gallery are pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Ruth Orkin including American Girl in Italy, one of the most widely known photographs ever taken. Co-curated by Orkin's daughter, Mary Engel, the exhibition will feature rarely seen photographs from Orkin's travelogue encapsulating the tourist's experience in Italy alongside iconic images spanning Orkin’s career.

On August 22, 1951, on the Piazza della Repubblica in Florence, Ruth Orkin, a 29 year old aspiring … more

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The New York School

The New York School

17 Apr – 7 Jun 2008
The New York School

Between the late 1930s and the early 1960s a group of young photographers living and working in New York City redefined street photography. This group of artists became known as The New York School.

These photographers documented the post war energy and exotic chaos of New York City as it evolved from the crisis years of the Great Depression and the Second World War through to the social turbulence of the early seventies. Most of them worked on magazines but it was their pe… more

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Alex Prager

The Big Valley

The Big Valley

25 Apr – 7 Jun 2008
Cinematic and darkly playful The Big Valley is a series of highly saturated staged portraits by Los Angeles based artist, Alex Prager. For her first solo UK exhibition this entirely new work will be shown alongside photographs from her high-successful Polyester series.

Prager photographs her female subjects in a style reminiscent of the great mid 20th Century film directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Douglas Sirk. Amongst the naivety of her compositions and colour palate there is the suggest… more

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Tod Papageorge

Passing through Eden

Passing through Eden

Photographs of Central Park

7 Mar – 19 Apr 2008
We are delighted to announce the first UK solo exhibition of work by Tod Papageorge. Taken between 1969 and 1991, these black and white photographs capture the primeval character of Central Park, the human tragedy and comedy in this particular vision of Eden.

During the 1970s, when Papageorge began to work on this series, Central Park was portrayed as a dangerous place not to be visited after dark. These photographs depict a different view showing innocence, beauty, ugliness, isolation, chaos a… more

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Mirella Ricciardi

Platinum Prints

Platinum Prints

22 Feb – 5 Apr 2008
Mirella Ricciardi's African pictures have the integrity of spontaneous, intuitive documents made with the deep love of someone who knew and understood their subject. There is nothing voyeuristic here, no sense of exploitation of the exotic, rather a sense of Mirella's tender, familial engagement, and her considerable respect for the inherent nobility of what was before her lens. Philippe Garner – International Head of Photographs, Christie's

Forty years ago Mirella Ricciardi travelled through… more

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The Bold & The Beautiful Photographs from The John Kobal Foundation

The Bold & The Beautiful
Photographs from The John Kobal Foundation

Photographs from The John Kobal Foundation

6 Dec 2007 – 26 Jan 2008
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce an exhibition of enduring photographs from the John Kobal Foundation, encapsulating the golden era of Hollywood.

Spanning a period of over 25 years the exhibition will include portraits of Greta Garbo, Marlon Brando, Marlene Dietrich, Grace Kelly, and Rita Hayworth – the bold and the beautiful. Captured in dramatic black and white by photographers Clarence Sinclair Bull, George Hurrell, Laszlo Willinger, Ted Allan and ER Richee amongst other… more

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EYES OF AN ISLAND

EYES OF AN ISLAND

Japanese photography 1945 - 2007

4 Oct – 1 Dec 2007
Book
Eyes of an Island - Japanese Photography 1945-2007



Guiding Light publications and Studio Equis will be producing a limited edition (1000 copies) 100 page hardback book to accompany the exhibition. All prints in the exhibition will be available for sale.

Introduction by Marc Feustel.
By Guiding Light Publications in collaboration with Studio Equis
(limited edition of 1000 copies)
ISBN: 978-0-9551863-2-5
84 pages. Hardback.
£28.00
Order from books@michaelhoppengallery.com


Exhibition
Ey… more

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Matthew Pillsbury

LONDON

LONDON

12 Sep – 29 Sep 2007
LONDON
Photographs by Matthew Pillsbury sponsored by Brahm.

Further to his photographs of the unseen world of the iconic museums and attractions in New York, we are delighted to announce the second UK exhibition of work by Matthew Pillsbury - LONDON.

Freezing the passage of time is the camera"s most conventional trick. American artist, Matthew Pillsbury, takes this further and his photographs capture the experience of time, both physically and psychologically. Utilizing his definitive style of… more

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Valérie Belin

Solo Exhibition

22 Jun – 1 Aug 2007
Valérie Belin's large-scale colour photographs of eerily perfect models are beautiful and unnervingly. This is the first time that Belin has used colour in her photographs and yet she retains her signature style of a subject uncannily deprived of context. This will be the artist's second exhibition at Michael Hoppen Contemporary.

This new series of work is both a progression and a reversal from Belin's black and white portraits of mannequins that appeared uncannily human taken in 2003. The mod… more

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Alfred Eisenstaedt

Solo Exhibition

28 Jun – 1 Aug 2007
"It's more important to click with people than click the shutter" - Alfred Eisenstaedt

We are delighted to announce an exhibition of vintage photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt - "the father of photojournalism". In a photographic career spanning sixty years Eisenstaedt was the first photographer to consistently practice candid photography, and in his own words, "photographed more people than any other photographer." His photographs have featured on the front cover of LIFE magazine 92 times and he… more

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Colin Jones

The Black House

The Black House

1 Jun – 1 Jul 2007
Thirty years since Colin Jones' seminal exhibition of The Black House at the Photographer's Gallery, we are proud to announce a new exhibition of one of the most volatile photography projects of the 1970s.

"When travelling from home to the Black House in the Holloway Road I was usually full of hope and optimism. On leaving I usually felt the opposite. I always seemed to go the same way. I passed places like Holloway Prison, Camden Town and Regents Park. Inside the park on my way home I felt tha… more

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Edward Quinn

A day's work

A day's work

26 Apr – 17 Jun 2007
We are delighted to announce the first UK exhibition of vintage prints by Edward Quinn. Best known for his photographs of celebrities on the French Riviera in the 1950s, to label Quinn a celebrity photographer would be to reduce both him and his work. The exhibition will also include his later portraits of artists, writers and politicians along with documentary work on the gypsies in the Camargue and evocative portraits of his native Dublin. The similarity between all of Quinn's work is that his… more

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Scarlett Hooft Graafland

Solo Exhibition

19 Apr – 1 Jun 2007
"...the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table (can provoke) the most powerful poetic detonations"
Le Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror, 1868.

We are delighted to announce the first UK solo exhibition of work by Dutch artist Scarlett Hooft Graafland.
Inhabiting the border between straight photography, performance and sculpture, Hooft Graafland's photographs are records of her highly choreographed live performances in the salt deserts of Bolivia.… more

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Desiree Dolron

Te dí todos mis sueños

Te dí todos mis sueños

24 Sep – 22 Nov 2003
For years now Desiree Dolron (Netherlands, b. 1963) has travelled around the world. Whatever corner of the world she finds herself in , she has invariably returned with uniquely personal records of her journeys.

Dolron’s acute vision meshes traditional reportage photography and computer enhancement to create a richer version of a genre that many believe to be tired and overused. The stillness and subtlety that is evoked by her seamless work has created a 21st C vision at odds with traditiona… more