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Lotte Jacobi

Coming from a long line of photographers, German-born Lotte Jacobi (1896-1990) was known for her intimate, dramatic and often experimental portraits in the ‘New Vision’ style of the late 1920s and 30s. After fleeing Hitler’s Germany, she re-established herself as a portraitist in New York and moved into abstraction and landscape photography…
Gabby Kynoch
16th June 2019
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Ilse Bing

Ilse Bing (1899–1998) was a German-born inter-war photographer who worked in photojournalism and portraiture in Paris and New York. She worked in the modernist style and innovated using solarisation and night photography. Her work was featured in MoMA’s first survey exhibition of photography in 1937.
Gabby Kynoch
16th June 2019
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Marysa Dowling: The Conversation

Marysa Dowling will discuss two long term projects,Blue Bag(2007-17) and The Conversation(ongoing), both on show. These projects share concerns that reoccur throughout Dowling’s practice; examining how photographic portraiture can play with and enquire into representations of identity. Dowling’s portraits often become the starting point for a visual exchange between people in different…
PlanetHeroines
10th June 2019

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