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Up Close
1 May - 14 Aug 2026 The selected works examine proximity, testing the distance between subject and lens. The breadth of artists represented are a testament to an almost fifty-year legacy of exhibiting the most important photography at the gallery. The exhibition features work by Helmut Newton, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts, Richard Avedon, DaidÅ Moriyama, Hiro... Read more -
Philippe Garner: New York - all seasons & Summer Still Lifes I - V
28 Jan - 31 Mar 2026 Garner took his first US pictures in October 1973 in Richmond, Virginia. In 1976, he made his first pictures in Miami, then in 1977 in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. ‘Like others of my generation,’ he explains, ‘I was inspired by an idea of this vast country, an idea fuelled... Read more -
Charles March: Sand Script
4 Nov 2025 - 26 Jan 2026 The exhibition presents a new series of minimalist photographs, each the result of patient observation. March captures shadows, lines and textures that become meditations on the natural world, where sea grass, fragments and fleeting marks on sand appear as calligraphic inscriptions, soon erased by the tide or blown away by... Read more -
Sotheby's at Hamiltons
10 - 19 Oct 2025 Opening to the public on 10 October, Sotheby’s at Hamiltons featured exceptional examples by artists such as David Hockney, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yves Klein, Roy Lichtenstein and Gerhard Richter - as well as a pinnacle work by the Surrealist master, Rene Magritte. Presenting this curated selection of rare and... Read more
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Nick Waplington: We Dance in Mysteries - The Isaac Mizrahi Photographs
27 Jun - 23 Sep 2025 With his daylight hours filled with the creativity and chaos of the fashion studio, Waplington also turned his lens by night to the pounding and equally innovative world of the New York City house and techno scene. Waplington describes his decision to bring the two sets of images together as... Read more -
From The Roster
6 Feb - 31 May 2025 All of the works in From the Roster are connected by a sense of the extra-ordinary. Important works by Steven Meisel, Herb Ritts and Sante D’Orazio encapsulate an unwavering commitment to capture untouchable glamour. More confronting is the provocative gaze of photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan’s most renowned... Read more -
Erwin Olaf: Bigger Than Life
14 Nov 2024 - 29 Jan 2025 Erwin Olaf passed away in 2023. In one of the artist’s last conversations with Shirley den Hartog, his right hand and studio manager, he said that he wished to be remembered as ‘bigger than life’. This show pays homage to this wish. During his lifetime Olaf was internationally renowned as... Read more -
Nobuyoshi Araki: Hanaguruma II
4 Sep - 9 Nov 2024 Following the great success of our first exhibition of Nobuyoshi Araki’s sumi ink portraits, Hamiltons presents Hanaguruma II. The exhibition comprises of twenty unique and largely unseen sumi ink drawings displayed alongside a selection of important polaroid photographs that explore the centrality of the female figure in the artist’s practice.... Read more
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Guido Mocafico: Serpens
6 Jun - 9 Aug 2024 Hamiltons is pleased to announce the first exhibition with Guido Mocafico in eight years. The show comprises eleven large format, unique, pigment prints from Mocafico’s highly acclaimed Serpens series. What animal has inspired as much dread, as many legends and, indeed, as much revulsion and terror as the snake? Demon,... Read more -
Nick Waplington: Living Room
14 Mar - 1 Jun 2024 Hamiltons is thrilled to debut the gallery's first exhibition with Nick Waplington, marking the release of previously unseen image variants and new works from his iconic series Living Room, 1991. Nick Waplington’s first book, Living Room, was published in 1991 and was an instant sensation within the photography world and... Read more -
Celebrating Silver
7 Feb - 9 Mar 2024 Hamiltons Gallery is delighted to present Celebrating Silver. This exhibition brings together a curated selection of the very finest prints by some of photography’s most influential artists. Through photographers such as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Don McCullin, Hiro, Robert Mapplethorpe and others, the technical mastery of print making is explored.... Read more -
Mario Testino: Gone Wild
21 Nov 2023 - 3 Feb 2024 Dr Jenifer Allen writes “Mario Testino expands the frontiers of wildlife photography. The locations remain remote: from eagles in Mongolia to zebras in Namibia. Yet Testino pushes the borders of this classic genre far beyond simple documentation. His pictures communicate much more than an animal photographed unawares in its natural... Read more
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Albert Watson: SKYE
7 Oct 2023 - 17 Nov 2024 His most personal project to date began in 2013 when he toured the island of Skye, working 12 hours a day for 5 weeks, inspiring him to create a series of other-worldly landscape photographs. Known to him since childhood, the island’s dramatic landscapes produced an inescapable magical quality that compelled... Read more -
Philippe Garner: Summer â Seventies â Saint - Tropez
4 Sep - 4 Oct 2023 The images – all shot on Kodachrome film, notable for the rich and vibrant saturation of its colours – take us back half a century to discover now-long-erased traces of an old Provence in and around Aix-en-Provence, where Garner was born. A discrete suite of images made on the now-legendary... Read more -
AVEDON: GLAMOROUS
17 May - 11 Aug 2023 Richard Avedon, widely acknowledged as one of the pioneers of modern photography, but also one of its most influential proponents was born in New York City in 1923. His first foray into the world of professional photography came about in 1945, under the tutelage of Alexey Brodovitch, then at Harper’s... Read more -
Mostly Nude
16 Mar - 13 May 2023 A genre in its own right, the Nude often implies an external look on feminity which transcends the nakedness or states of undress of the model but is defined by a particular interaction of ‘self’ and ‘other’. This exhibition celebrates Hamiltons Gallery's pioneering history of establishing photography as an art... Read more
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Tomio Seike: Eighty
26 Jan - 11 Mar 2023 The subjects include portraits of artist Zoe Leonard which was one of Seike’s first series. His intimate photographs, taken as they traveled through Tokyo, London, Paris and New York, give a rare insight into her youth and the series brought him significant recognition as a photographer. The exhibition also presents... Read more -
Murray Fredericks: BLAZE
14 Nov 2022 - 21 Jan 2023 Hamiltons has represented Murray Fredericks for over a decade. His atmospheric photographs border on the sublime – giving rise to the emotional and physical sense of an overwhelming awe of nature. These large-scale, colour photographs are set against the vast expanse of the Australian landscape, in particular flooded lakes and... Read more -
Gavin Bond - Being There
15 Sep - 8 Nov 2022 Gavin Bond: Being There delves into the photographer’s archive, showcasing countless notorious fashion ‘moments’. Bond rediscovered this extensive collection of images during lockdown 2020; they took him back to when he was a young fashion student at the prestigious Central Saint Martins. In 1988, Bond enrolled at CSM, alongside notable... Read more -
Richard Learoyd & Irving Penn: Flowers
22 Jun - 10 Sep 2022 Hamiltons Gallery’s association with Irving Penn and later his Foundation spanned three decades; and for the first time, the gallery unites the work of Penn who was one of the most renowned photographers of his time – alongside that of contemporary, British photographer Richard Learoyd. Together, their studies of flowers... Read more
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Nobuyoshi Araki: Hanaguruma
2 May - 17 Jun 2022 Nobuyoshi Araki is one of Japan’s most renowned photographers and contemporary artists. Araki’s work is often controversial, but his artistic genius is undeniable; every image reveals extreme technical mastery which influences many creative fields, including photography, film, painting, and in this case, ink drawing. Araki’s inspiration for these expressive ink... Read more -
Erwin Olaf: Im Wald
8 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 Olaf highlights the role of people in isolation, staging them in visually astounding settings and examining their relationship to nature. Both the vastness of the landscape by comparison to the subjects, but also the subjects’ empathy with the natural environment, are dramatized by the scale of the images. In Im... Read more -
The Great and The Good
27 Jan - 3 Mar 2022 Hiro, Jane Hitchcock in Sant ‘Angelo, New York, 1970 © Estate of Y. Hiro Wakabayashi Richard Avedon, Naomi Campbell, Kristen McMenamy, Linda Evangelista, Stephanie Seymour, and Christy Turlington, Versace Spring/Summer 1993 Campaign, New York, November 9, 1992 © Richard Avedon Foundation Mario Testino, Gisele Bundchen, New York, Vanity Fair, 2007... Read more -
Mario Testino: South Americana
3 Nov 2021 - 22 Jan 2022 This exhibition takes at its heart themes which, like the overall project, reflect the origins of the artist himself. Peruvian in origin, Testino has returned repeatedly to the Andes to explore the regions hidden cultural histories such as in his 2007-2020 project Alta Moda. Unlike this project which focused on... Read more
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DaidÅ Moriyama: A Journey in Ink
8 Sep - 30 Oct 2021 Made using deep black ink, the artworks are larger in scale, produced either as unique works or limited editions – a complete reversal to his uneditioned gelatin silver prints. Recognised immediately for their gritty and mysterious style, the artworks pay tribute to the multiple aspects of his oeuvre from his... Read more -
The Best
3 Jun - 13 Aug 2021 After a particularly tough year for everyone and months in lockdown, we have sincerely missed visiting galleries, perusing museum exhibitions and travelling to art fairs around the world. ‘The Best’ is a celebration of the freedom we so cherish to experience art again in its many manifestations. ‘The Best’ will... Read more -
Helmut Newton: High Gloss
21 Oct 2020 - 28 May 2021 In the 1970s, Newton made a small quantity of ferrotyped prints before he had developed a collector’s market. These glossy prints were made to imitate the press and book styles of the 1930s when the sleek printing technique was associated with the popular, illustrated magazines of Newton’s youth. Photographers of... Read more -
Christopher Thomas: Bittersweet
2 Sep - 10 Oct 2020 Hamiltons presents Bittersweet, a new series of photographs made by German photographer Christopher Thomas over the past ten years. Taken in multiple locations around the world, the photographs show a range of subjects from a discovered bar in Galveston, Texas to an abandoned fairground ride near the Chernobyl nuclear power... Read more
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Hiro: Fish & Fowl
Part 2: Fighting Fowl 15 Jun - 14 Aug 2020 The Game Fowl series comprises 26 black and white images. The photographs make an astonishing visual statement of the ferocity of animals. In this body of work, taken over ten years, Hiro marvels at the survival instincts of these creatures. As noted by Susanna Moore in her essay for Fighting... Read more -
Hiro: Fish & Fowl
Part 1: Fighting Fish 12 Feb - 27 Mar 2020 “The photographs are provocative. The sensual fish are emblematic and even illuminating. Nature, in the end, whether it manifests itself in the seductive display of beauty that in the fish is both solemn and gaudy, or in the cold workaday belligerence of the rooster, will always have its way. Nature... Read more -
Mario Testino: East
19 Nov 2019 - 7 Feb 2020 The flower still lifes are inspired by traditional ‘Ukiyo-e’, or “pictures of the floating world”, one of the most admired genres of Japanese art and typically created using woodblock prints and painting. Each of the seasonal flowers captured by Testino in this body of work signify distinct ideas, such as... Read more -
Richard Avedon: Portfolios
9 Sep - 13 Nov 2019 Made in France is a portfolio by chance. It was assembled after Avedon’s re-discovery of an intact group of 27 of his original engraver prints from the glory years that were 1950s Harper’s Bazaar. During this time Avedon became an ascendant force at the magazine and travelled to Paris twice... Read more
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Erwin Olaf: Women
14 May - 15 Aug 2019 In celebration of Erwin Olaf’s 60th year and long collaboration with the gallery, Hamiltons presented photographs of women from across Olaf’s career. Hamiltons Gallery owner Tim Jefferies selected these works from Olaf’s oeuvre of 40 years, comprising photographs from Chessmen (1987-88), Squares (1983-2018), Blacks (1990), Mature (1999), Fashion Victims (2000),... Read more -
Don McCullin: Proximity
30 Jan - 11 May 2019 To coincide with the major retrospective at Tate Britain (5th February – 6th May 2019), Hamiltons celebrated Sir Don McCullin’s lifetime achievement and decades of collaboration with Hamiltons by exhibiting rare and unseen vintage prints dating back to the 1950s. Selected from the photographer’s personal archive, they were made shortly... Read more -
Irving Penn: Paintings
28 Nov 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 Encompassing multiple works drawn from the collection of The Irving Penn Foundation, the exhibition will showcase Penn’s mixed-media paintings from the late 1980s through the early 2000s, highlighting the artist’s experimentation with materials, form, and colour. Drawing inspiration from leading 20th century figures such as Henri Matisse, Giorgio Morandi, and... Read more -
Modern Masters
10 Sep - 22 Nov 2018 Helmut Newton, Debra and Red Exterior, Beverly Hills, 1991 © Helmut Newton Foundation Read more
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Daido Moriyama: SCENE
15 May - 17 Aug 2018 Daido Moriyama is recognised as one of the few living modern masters of photography from Japan and is certainly the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement of the 1960s. Moriyama’s work is notoriously gritty and challenging, often recording the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan.... Read more -
Robert Frank
28 Mar - 11 May 2018 Considered one of the most influential figures in the history of photography – it was Jack Kerouc who first defined Frank as a genius – Frank found fame in the early 1960s with his ground-breaking book The Americans. The series offers a profound insight into the country’s cultural and social... Read more -
Hiro
23 Jan - 23 Mar 2018 Known for the originality of his photographs, Hiro’s photographic career began at Harper’s Bazaar in New York as a fashion, still-life and portrait photographer. Shortly after arriving in America from Japan in 1954, Hiro landed an apprenticeship in Richard Avedon’s studio. Avedon soon sent Hiro to legendary art director Alexey... Read more -
Scott Mead: Above the Clouds
An Exhibition to Benefit Great Ormond Street Children's Charity 9 - 19 Jan 2018 Above the Clouds is a portfolio of images taken from Mead’s extensive air travel on regularly scheduled flights over the last several years. During these journeys, Mead has been extremely inspired whilst gazing out of plane windows at the endless horizon, finding that the journey itself can be more meaningful... Read more
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Penn/Warhol: Signs
2 Nov 2017 - 5 Nov 2018 In some of his earliest forays with a camera, Irving Penn took careful notice of these signs. He saw personal expressions of a merchant’s hope for more business, a preacher’s wish for a congregation, some way to catch the eyes of passers-by. The variety and combination of words and symbols,... Read more -
Christopher Thomas: Lost in L.A.
20 Sep - 28 Oct 2017 The exhibition includes classic views and motifs associated with the city, such as the Hollywood Sign, Randy’s Donuts, Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland and Santa Monica Beach, as well as more unexpected pictures of oil pumps, solitary piers stretching into the Pacific Ocean and the nucleus and centre of Los... Read more -
Charles March: Seascape
11 - 19 Sep 2017 Charles March has nurtured an interest in photography since the age of twelve. After leaving school at sixteen, he spent time as an apprentice to Stanley Kubrick, worked as a documentary photographer in Africa and then spent twenty years in the advertising industry photographing campaigns such as Levi’s, Benson &... Read more -
Murray Fredericks Salt: Vanity
28 Apr - 9 Aug 2017 Australian photographer Murray Fredericks’ long relationship with Lake Eyre, where his most recent series Vanity has been produced, commenced in 2003, and to date consists of twenty journeys to the centre of the lake where he photographs for weeks at a time in the vast and infinite landscape. Fredericks is... Read more
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Roger Ballen: The Theatre of Apparitions
17 Mar - 21 Apr 2017 “These are spirit drawings… they are the permanent record of a bubbling up of deeper, more primal psychological realms made manifest on a surface through the interaction between a particular individual and fluid, physical materials.” Roger Ballen Ballen was inspired by hand-drawn carvings he saw on blacked-out windows in an... Read more -
Herb Ritts: Super & Super Part II
28 Nov 2016 - 10 Mar 2017 Natural light, shadows, shape, movement and texture permeate Ritts’s work. As is evident in the photographs in this exhibition, often unencumbered by studio walls and technicalities, Ritts was able to “give a truthful interpretation behind the surface and into the soul of the sitter”. Ritts never envisaged the final shot,... Read more -
Araki
27 Sep - 22 Nov 2016 Although not all of Araki’s images are sexually charged, his monumental oeuvre also depicts the photographer’s own life and the day-to-day intricacies of existence. Araki has divided opinion but his artistic genius is undeniable; every image reveals extreme technical mastery and his influence penetrates many creative fields, including photography, film... Read more -
Guido Mocafico: Blaschka
18 Mar - 27 May 2016 Originally from Bohemia, but based in Dresden, the Blaschkas were glassmakers working from the mid-1800s until the 1930s. The masterpieces, created over both their lifetimes, are handmade out of clear, coloured and painted glass and still exist in several museum collections, including Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts), the Corning Museum of... Read more
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Hiro
22 Jan - 11 Mar 2016 ‘The world of Hiro’s photographs, bordered by a shoreline, is unlike any place you have ever been… Hiro’s world encompasses the separate domains of fashion, portraiture, still-life and studies of the human body. His eye scrutinises men and machines with equal focus.’ (Mark Holborn) Known for the originality of his... Read more -
Irving Penn: Flowers
19 Nov 2015 - 15 Jan 2016 As the exclusive UK representative for Mr. Penn’s pictures for over a quarter-century, Hamiltons had the unique privilege of being able to represent the complete Flowers series of 42 print editions, accompanied by a fully illustrated, hardbound catalogue raisonné, published by Hamiltons Gallery in collaboration with The Irving Penn Foundation.... Read more -
Erwin Olaf: Skin Deep
8 Oct - 14 Nov 2015 Olaf’s art implicitly visualises the unspoken and the overlooked. By addressing social issues and taboos within the framework of a highly stylised mode of imagery, his work provides us with uncertain, shifting narratives, which defy singular interpretation. In his own unique style and approach, Olaf vividly captures the essence of... Read more -
Don McCullin: Eighty
9 Sep - 3 Oct 2015 McCullin’s knack for getting where most civilians could not contributes to the remarkable closeness he has to his subjects. His sympathies, it is clear in his pictures, lie with the victims – the poor and ordinary people, on both sides of the conflict. Perhaps the most well-known photograph to come... Read more
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Paolo Roversi: Polaroids
2 Jul - 14 Aug 2015 “As soon as I discovered this type of film I was enchanted by it. Even now I still feel this way and I cannot justify the reason. You know how you fall in love with something—maybe it was the colour, the contrast. It became my palette immediately.” These rare, colour... Read more -
Cathleen Naundorf: Noah's Ark
14 May - 26 Jun 2015 “I am telling the classic Bible story, Noah’s Ark. Saving the animals and mankind; leaving earth as we know it – in a boat – and believing there is something better for the future.” Naundorf captures her scenes with analogue large-format cameras, which, since the 1990s, she has used in... Read more -
Something For Everyone
19 Feb - 30 Apr 2015 Read more -
Charles March: Abstract & Intentional
2 - 14 Feb 2015 A very personal body of work, Nature Translated represented the trees and landscapes March was exposed to throughout his childhood, marking a significant turn from his highly formal still life advertising photography of the 1990s, and symbolising an important part of March’s personal and wider history. Abstract and Intentional further... Read more
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Murray Fredericks: Recent Work
11 Dec 2014 - 30 Jan 2015 Lake Eyre is a continuation of Fredericks' Salt series, as previously exhibited at Hamiltons in Salt, 2007 and Salt II, 2009. Often travelling alone with a bicycle and trailer, carrying his large format camera and supplies, Fredericks navigated this vast area in Southern Australia in extreme weather conditions, taking both... Read more -
Horst: Vintage
25 Sep - 6 Nov 2014 Widely recognised as one of the pre-eminent fashion and portrait photographers of the 20th century, Horst's career spanned sixty years. German by birth, Horst was an international figure and largely based himself in Paris and New York; he became a US citizen in 1943 towards the end of WWII. Horst... Read more -
Mollino | Mapplethorpe
23 Jun - 12 Sep 2014 The exhibition includes rare Polaroids and C-prints from the fifties and sixties by Mollino, recognised as one of Italy’s most original creators, alongside two of Mollino’s most recognisable masterpieces of modern design, The Lattes Chair and The Copenhagen Chair. Mollino never published or exhibited his Polaroids, discovered after his death,... Read more -
Masterworks
An exhibition of works by Modern Masters of Photography 15 May - 6 Jun 2014 Guido Mocafico, Naja Haje Legionis, 2003 © Guido Mocafico Read more
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Daido Moriyama: Silkscreens
7 Nov - 20 Dec 2013 The exhibition offers a broad overview of Moriyama's wide-ranging subject matter, with a combination of well known to lesser known images. Notoriously challenging and unsettling, Moriyama's work is both raw and instinctive, haunted by the American occupation of Japan after World War II and its consequent aftermath; the social and... Read more -
Jacob FellÀnder: Pentimento
24 Sep - 1 Nov 2013 Using rebuilt analogue cameras to multiexpose his negatives whilst simultaneously winding the film forward throughout the frame, Felländer allows for time, space and perspective to drift. He begins to challenge the interaction between fine art and photography, as he introduces paint and charcoal to his work for the first time.... Read more -
Irving Penn: Cranium Architecture
19 Jun - 20 Sep 2013 Cranium Architecture sees Penn create a beautiful, absorbing study of animal skulls from the collection of the Narodni National Museum in Prague. From gorilla to giraffe, the photographer treats each subject with fastidious equality - zooming in or moving away to ensure that all the skulls are the same size... Read more -
Erwin Olaf: Berlin
7 Mar - 7 Jun 2013 Funded in part with the proceeds of his 2011 Vermeer prize, the most important cultural recognition conferred by the Dutch government, this series demonstrates that Erwin Olaf has again broken the boundaries of contemporary photographic practice. At once historical and contemporary, with a tension-filled, and ever-shifting narrative, Olaf manages to... Read more
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Bettina Rheims: Gender Studies
26 Jan - 1 Mar 2013 The foundation of this project emerged from a request to republish Modern Lovers, a body of work concentrating on androgyny and transgender identity, shot in the late eighties and exhibited at Hamiltons in 1990. At the peak of the AIDS crisis this series was a particularly timely critical approach towards... Read more -
Gilles Bensimon: Watercolour
6 Dec 2012 - 18 Jan 2013 Fascinated by the natural beauty of flowers, and by their intimate associations with myriad varieties of cultural expression around the world, Bensimon has both literally and metaphorically submerged himself - and untold volumes of freshly cut blooms - into pools of water to create amazing blossoms of colour. The resulting... Read more -
Kobi Israel: Lands In-Between
9 - 30 Nov 2012 The trilogy, River of Three Crossings, is a travelogue that evolves around the mythic, nomadic nature of landscape. Lands In-Between represents the passage between the promised and dreamed, documenting the split of time moving simultaneously towards the future and the past, yet seemingly suspended in the present. The exhibition comprised... Read more -
Jedd Novatt: Chaos: Defining the Invisible
3 Oct - 3 Nov 2012 A catalogue has been produced to accompany the exhibition with an introductory essay by Patxi Lanceros, from the Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao. These bronzes within stand between 1 to 1.77 metres high, in editions of three. They exemplify Novatt's rich repertoire of shapes and configurations and his exploration of the... Read more
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Murray Fredericks: Hector
14 - 29 Sep 2012 Hector is the colloquial name for the convection thunderstorms 'Hector the Convector' that occur almost daily over the Tiwi Islands, situated in the Arafura sea, North of the Australian mainland; and it was during the 'build-up' season prior to the monsoon in 2010 that Fredericks chose to make his first... Read more -
Irving Penn: Cigarettes
21 Jun - 14 Aug 2012 Marking a quarter-century as the UK representative of Mr Penn's studio, Hamiltons had the unique privilege of presenting the complete series of 26 platinum palladium prints, accompanied by a fully illustrated, hardbound catalogue published in collaboration with the Irving Penn Foundation. Irving Penn, Cigarette No. 11, New York , 1972... Read more -
Modern Masters
14 Apr - 1 Jun 2012 Irving Penn, Cuzco Children, Peru, 1948 © Irving Penn Foundation Read more -
Cathleen Naundorf: Un Reve De Mode
2 - 31 Mar 2012 Naundorf passionately uses large format cameras for her work. The expensive Polaroid films, many of which are out of production, help create the beautiful images that become an homage to classical haute couture. Due to her outstanding results, Naundorf was offered the opportunity to choose gowns from the couturiers' archives... Read more
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Christopher Thomas: Venice in Solitude
2 - 25 Feb 2012 At the crack of dawn, just before dusk falls, or at night by the light of the moon, Thomas would set off through the city with his heavy equipment comprising a large-format camera, a selection of lenses, a tripod, a dark velvet cloth and many boxes of Polaroid Type 55... Read more -
Annie Leibovitz: Pilgrimage
8 Dec 2011 - 20 Jan 2012 Annie Leibovitz's Pilgrimage project took her to places that she could explore with no agenda. She wasn't on assignment. She chose the subjects simply because they meant something to her. Leibovitz is a celebrated portraitist, but the Pilgrimage photographs have no people in them. They are notes for portraits. Hamiltons... Read more -
Don McCullin: Platinum
3 Nov - 2 Dec 2011 Internationally renowned British photographer, Don McCullin, is known throughout the world for his photojournalism and particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife. McCullin is known for printing his own works, however, this exhibition is a one off project. 'I have always prided myself on printing my... Read more -
Tomio Seike: Overlook
7 - 29 Oct 2011 'At first sight the viewer could be forgiven for assuming that the artist was a watercolourist. Ironically so as the photographs represent a quantum leap for Seike in terms of technique - hurdling from black and white film to colour digital file in one bound. Yet in spite of the... Read more
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Ron Galella: Vintage Galella
14 Sep - 11 Oct 2011 Concentrating on the sixties and seventies, Vintage Galella includes thirty-seven vintage prints from his personal archive and comprising images of celebrities such as Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Steve Martin, Rod Stewart, Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol, Bob Hope, Elvis Presley, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Marlon Brando, Dustin Hoffman... Read more -
Herb Ritts: Herb Ritts
22 Jun - 12 Aug 2011 Having been catalogued and preserved in the Foundation's climate controlled vault since Ritts' untimely death in December 2002, these rare and unique works exist in limited numbers and in many instances are the only print available. The exhibition comprises original works, measuring 11 x 14 inches, which were printed and... Read more -
Tadao Ando: Chinmoku
19 May - 17 Jun 2011 The exhibition is a first for both Ando, who had never shown these materials in a commercial exhibition, and for Hamiltons, marking a momentary break from photography in order to coincide with the unveiling of Ando's installation outside The Connaught Hotel on Carlos Place. 'A mutual friend of Ando and... Read more -
Helmut Newton: Selected Works
10 Mar - 13 May 2011 Hamiltons is delighted to present a selection of exceedingly rare work by Newton in London during this period. Helmut Newton, Sun Hee, Monte Carlo, 1993 © Helmut Newton Foundation Read more
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Anderson and Low: Manga Dreams
27 Jan - 5 Mar 2011 Subjects tailored their look to that of manga, tamed hair and costume, whilst performing for the photographers - and the photographers dressed, groomed and photographed their subjects. Manga, stemming originally from Asia, means 'cartoon' and within the context of this exhibition connected street youth and visual cyber culture with contemporary... Read more -
Albert Watson: Vintage Watson
26 Nov 2010 - 21 Jan 2011 Watson's polaroids provide evidence of his meticulous working methods, which directly highlight the creative process linking his thoughts and vision to the final images. The timing of this exhibition coincided with the launch of Watson's two books, Strip Search, a spectacular personal portrait of Las Vegas, and UFO: Unified Fashion... Read more -
Jeanloup Sieff: Jeanloup Sieff
23 Sep - 19 Nov 2010 'The work that Sieff created through a career that lasted over forty years is so consistently infused with the potent traces of his personality and imagination that his pictures are always immediately recognisable.', Philippe Garner, Christie's. Jeanloup Sieff, Derriére au soleil, Paris, 1989 © The Estate of Jeanloup Sieff Read more -
Scott Mead: Looking Back, Pictures from the Attic
An Exhibition to Benefit Great Ormond Street Children's Charity 16 - 18 Sep 2010 Mead captured the striking black and white photographs of New England landscapes, trees and domestic interiors while studying at Harvard in the mid-Ë 1970s. They employ a distinctive circular perspective inspired by his one-Ëtime Professor Emmet Gowin. The photographs were taken using a traditional large format 8x10 film camera, which... Read more
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David Bailey: NOW & THEN
10 Jun - 13 Aug 2010 The first exhibition sees Bailey unveil NOW , a never exhibited before body of work comprising thirteen large and small format colour still life arrangements of flowers and skulls. THEN , the second exhibition will run from 8 July - 13 August and feature a selection of enlarged black and... Read more -
Erwin Olaf: Recent Work
29 Apr - 4 Jun 2010 Dawn & Dusk is a two-part series of distinct halves. Dusk, shot black-on-black, presents middle class African Americans in 20th Century environments. Inspired by reactions to an exhibition of his work in North Carolina, and the discovery of a set of photographs taken in 1900 of African Americans in Virginia... Read more -
Irving Penn: Small Trades
5 Mar - 25 Apr 2010 Beginning in Paris, then London and New York, Penn photographed the Small Trades between 1950 and 1951, when he was thirty-three years old. Penn set out to create representations of tradespeople in their work clothes, carrying the tools of their profession. The format, similar throughout - whether the sitter is... Read more -
Guido Mocafico: Guns and Roses
23 Jan - 20 Feb 2010 Guns concentrates on the beauty and technical feat of the man-made object, delighting in the sleek design and functionality of the weapons which are in themselves works of art set against black backgrounds. The viewer is encouraged to look beyond their raw, often destructive reality and consider the beauty of... Read more
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Roger Ballen: Boarding House
15 Oct - 28 Nov 2009 The Boarding House series is a journey of discovery in which we leave our ordinary selves behind and confront a primitive part of the human condition and its psyche. With an element of dark humour, these thought-provoking images blur the margins between the real and imagined, altering sense of place.... Read more -
Benno Graziani: Memories of Summer
18 Sep - 10 Oct 2009 Graziani was friends with some of the biggest stars of his era, including Jackie Kennedy, who invited him on a holiday she took with her sister to Ravello Italy, in 1962. As one of her closest friends, having met as journalists whilst Jackie was working for The Washington Times Herald... Read more -
Murray Fredericks: Salt II
25 Jun - 11 Sep 2009 This exhibition comprises a selection of large format colour photographs, alongside two new grand scale, 1.2 x 4.1 metre, panoramic scenes; horizontal successions of ten to twenty frames assembled in one image, representing the feeling of vast space and emptiness. Murray Fredericks, Salt 37, 2005 © Murray Fredericks Read more -
Helmut Newton: Helmut Newton
14 May - 19 Jun 2009 'The superb results achieved for this collection demonstrate the potential of works bought with true passion and considerable connoisseurship to perform magnificently even in the present uncertain economic climate. The results also confirm the central position that Helmut Newton has rightly been accorded as a master photographer of the 20th... Read more
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Miles Aldridge: Doll Face
2 Apr - 10 May 2009 Cinematic expression marks Aldridge's work and it is not surprising therefore that his dreamlike, erotic style has drawn comparisons with the work of Bergman, Dali, David Lynch, Hitchcock and Godard amongst others. 'If the world were pretty enough, I'd shoot on location all the time. But the world is just... Read more -
Steve Schapiro: The Godfather
25 Feb - 28 Mar 2009 Instantly recognisable images including Brando with Cat, Pacino Dying and The Whisper, are shown with images that had never been seen before, such as De Niro Family and Brando and Al Martino. The exhibition provides a rare insiders' view into the making of the films and immortalising actors such as... Read more -
Richard Caldicott: New Work
21 Jan - 21 Feb 2009 Reminiscent of his Tupperware series exhibited at Hamiltons in Spring 2002, the ordinary plastic cups assume a seductive, pensive aura; they are about colour and light rather than the objects themselves. The viewer is encouraged to look beyond the practical surface of the work and celebrate the unexpected beauty of... Read more -
Irving Penn: Food
27 Nov 2008 - 17 Jan 2009 'Penn has been one of photography's conspicuous innovators and distinguished performers in at least two of the medium's oldest and most successful genres: still life and portraiture.', John Szarkowski. Szarkowski went on to say that the character of Penn's still life subjects is parallel to the character of his portraits.... Read more
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Erwin Olaf: Recent Works
24 Oct - 22 Nov 2008 The series are described by Olaf as an instant of indecision or consideration, the 'half-second after you receive bad news but before you react'. Grief, for example, focuses on the silently fought battle between gut-wrenching sorrow and socially constructed notions of dignity and poise. In Recent Works, Olaf encourages the... Read more -
Nobuyoshi Araki: Bokuju Kitan
18 Sep - 19 Oct 2008 Kinbaku, meaning bondage, is the signature motif of this specific body of work. Traditionally used in pornographic works, bondage is rarely associated with artistic motivation. However, since 1979, Araki has depicted the theme through a creative lens. Although considered provocative, he has interpreted this subject matter with imaginative artistry and... Read more -
Guido Mocafico: Aranea
28 May - 20 Jun 2008 Spiders, whether large or small, have always induced fear in humans, and although Mocafico provides the spectator a comfortable viewing position to observe these striking creatures, instinctive reactions habitually prevail. All the tarantulas photographed are part of the Theraphosidae family, of which consist approximately 800 species distributed in 12 subfamilies.... Read more -
Alison Jackson: Seeing is Deceiving
16 Apr - 23 May 2008 'The images highlight the difference between what we see and what we imagine. We are driven by our inherent voyeurism and our need to believe in simple truths to accept the image's violent demands.' - Alison Jackson. Celebrities are modern-day heroes and villains upon which we project our own fantasies.... Read more
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Albert Watson: Miss Beehayving
12 Feb - 15 Mar 2008 This work departs from Watson's iconic portraiture, instead concentrating on a single dominatrix and burlesque performer, Breaunna, with whom he worked repeatedly over two years. These images form a unique and essential part of the Shot in Vegas series. Watson met Breaunna at a Rock-A-Billy Convention in 2000, and she... Read more -
Kevin Lynch: Octagon
17 Jan - 2 Feb 2008 Lynch embarked on a four-year project with the UFC, resulting in the Octagon series of art works, as well as the publication of a deluxe, limited edition artist book by Powerhouse and Zuffa, LLC, which includes an introduction by David Mamet and essay by Dave Hickey. Octagon speaks to an... Read more -
Jedd Novatt: Susse Chaos
12 Dec 2007 - 12 Jan 2008 Jedd Novatt, Chaos Susse 27, 2007 © Jedd Novatt Bronze Unique Read more -
Irving Penn: Flower Power
22 Nov 2007 - 1 Jan 2008 These two distinct series are strongly related in the context of the 'Flower Power' movement of the 1960s. The 'Flower Power' slogan, attributed to the American poet Allen Ginsberg, was used by hippies during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of peace, rooted in opposition to the... Read more
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Helmut Newton: XL
26 Sep - 16 Nov 2007 Helmut Newton, Tied Up Torso, Ramatuelle , 1980 © Helmut Newton Foundation Read more -
Herb Ritts: Herb Ritts
27 Jun - 11 Sep 2007 The exhibition comprises twenty-eight black and white photographs, ranging from the iconic to the lesser known and spanning his interests in celebrity portraiture (Elizabeth Taylor, Malibu, 1991), explorations in Africa (Darati, Profile, Africa, 1993) and figurative work (Alek Wek, Los Angeles, 1998). Herb Ritts, Versace, Veiled Dress, El Mirage, 1990... Read more -
Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof: Monento Mori
6 - 26 Jun 2007 'von Zadora-Gerlof's series stands out as a set of encounters between the powerful image of the human skull and the properties of twenty-three minerals which represent its inside. Detached from the conventional symbolism of death and brevity these works invite poetic analogies between the emotions, thoughts and images produced by... Read more -
Guido Mocafico: Movement
2 May - 2 Jun 2007 Movement concentrates on the concept of time. Whilst time was originally measured by astronomical and seasonal movements, here Mocafico explores the precise movement of a mechanical system to measure time. 'My intention is to reveal the extraordinary Alchemist's blend of technical, mechanical and paradoxically poetical elements housed within these tiny... Read more
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Murray Fredericks: Salt
28 Mar - 28 Apr 2007 The project commenced in 2003, with Fredericks travelling alone using only a bicycle and trailer to carry his large format camera, supplies, water and tent. Navigating this vast area of dry land in extreme weather conditions can take both a physical and mental toll on an individual. Each pigment print... Read more -
Jim Lee: 69
14 Feb - 28 Mar 2007 Lee, who famously worked alongside Ossie Clark, cites Helmut Newton as a prominent influence in his photography. Although they never met, a number of parallels can be drawn, both leaning towards risqué, evocative imagery. The women in Lee's work, similarly to those in his life, appear to be self assured... Read more -
Kobi Israel: Promised Lands
17 Jan - 12 Feb 2007 Promised Lands is the first solo UK exhibition of works by Kobi Israel. The exhibition comprises thirteen large format, editioned photographs in three series, encouraging the viewer to join Israel in an exploration of their inner selves through the uncertain meanings of the 'Promised Land'. The first series represents the... Read more -
Horst P. Horst: Platinum
29 Nov 2006 - 15 Jan 2007 Nearing a decade since Hamiltons presented a Horst show, this is surely the most fitting tribute to his centenary year. A cloth-bound limited edition slip cased book was published to commemorate the show and was available throughout the exhibition. Horst P. Horst, Barefoot Beauty, 1941 © Estate of Horst P.... Read more
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Tomio Seike: Glynde Forge
26 Oct - 25 Nov 2006 'It seems light knows dust, dust knows light, I was fascinated to discover this each time. Time is passing everything and my cameras see the light and dust and often they can be quite beautiful.' - Tomio Seike Tomio Seike, influenced by early photography, is known for working at an... Read more -
Irving Penn: Now and Then
14 Sep - 21 Oct 2006 In the show, Penn presents a selection of works that featured still life, fashion, portraits and nudes. Some of the pictures have been produced as recently as February 2006, whilst other prints dated back to the early fifties. The exhibition includes examples of Penn’s exquisitely created platinum prints and more... Read more -
PINTUPI: 20 Contemporary Paintings from the Pintupi Homelands
28 Jun - 11 Aug 2006 Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri, Pukartjina, 2004 © Estate of Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri Read more -
Jedd Novatt: Chaos
30 May - 23 Jun 2006 Jedd Novatt, Chaos 21, 2006 © Jedd Novatt Read more
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Richard White: Natural Elements
26 Apr - 27 May 2006 Richard White, Untitled © Richard White Read more -
Stephane Graff: Invisible Ink
16 Mar - 16 Apr 2006 Stephane Graff, Chemical Light No. 1, 2005 © Stephane Graff Read more -
Richard Caldicott: Blocker
9 Feb - 11 Mar 2006 Richard Caldicott, Acoustic, 2005 © Richard Caldicott Read more -
Rosita Marlborough: Abstraction
10 Nov - 3 Dec 2005 © Rosita Marlborough Read more
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Garry Fabian Miller: Exposure
13 Sep - 22 Oct 2005 Gary Fabian Miller, Exposure, (1 hour of light), April 1st, 2005 © Garry Fabian Miller Read more -
Stella Vine: Stellawood
23 Jun - 22 Sep 2005 Stella Vine, Spidey, 2005 © Stella Vine Read more -
Richard Hudson: Sculptures
11 May - 17 Jun 2005 Richard Hudson, Mujer VI © Richard Hudson Read more -
Huger Foote: Sight Unseen
2 Feb - 5 Mar 2005 Huger Foote, Untitled, 2004 © Huger Foote Read more
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Gary Komarin: The Disappointed Mistress
13 Oct - 20 Nov 2004 Gary Komarin, The Bowman Sixpence has got to have Soul, 2004 © Gary Komarin Read more -
Norman Parkinson: Norman Parkinson
15 Sep - 9 Oct 2004 Norman Parkinson, Jerry Hall, Russia, 1975 © Iconic Images Read more -
Jamie Nares: Paintings
24 Jun - 4 Sep 2004 Read more -
Garry Fabian Miller: Blue Gold
23 Apr - 29 May 2004 Read more
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Richard Caldicott: Untitled Constructions
17 Mar - 17 Apr 2004 Richard Caldicott, Untitled Construction No. 5, 2003 © Richard Caldicott Read more -
Liu Jianhua: Recent Works
21 Jan - 21 Feb 2004 © Lia Jianhu Read more -
Elliott Puckette: New Paintings
27 Nov 2003 - 17 Jan 2004 Elliott Puckette, Ascension, 2003 © Elliott Puckette Read more -
Donald Baechler: New Works
15 Oct - 22 Nov 2003 Donald Baechler, Time Has Told Me, 2003© Donald Baechler Read more
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Helmut Newton: Big Nudes
10 Sep - 11 Oct 2003 Helmut Newton, Big Nude III (Henrietta), 1980 © Helmut Newton Foundation Read more -
Tom Wesselmann
25 Jun - 6 Sep 2003 Tom Wesselmann, Mouth # 2, 1966 © Estate of Tom Wesselmann Read more -
Carlo Mollino: Polaroids
1 May - 14 Jun 2003 Carlo Molllino, Untitled, Turin , early 1960’s © Estate of Carlo Mollino Read more -
Tomio Seike: Waterscapes
19 Mar - 19 Apr 2003 Tomio Seike, Waterscape #13, 1998 © Tomio Seike Read more
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Jack Pierson: Collages
30 Jan - 8 Mar 2003 Jack Pierson, Untitled, (Collage I), 2001 © Jack Pierson Read more -
David Bailey: Platinum
20 Nov 2002 - 18 Jan 2003 David Bailey, Mick Jagger in Fur, December, 1964 © David Bailey Read more -
Irving Penn
22 Sep - 12 Oct 2002 Irving Penn, Woman with Roses on Her Arm, 1950 © Irving Penn Foundation Read more -
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Paintings
20 Jun - 9 Aug 2002 Read more
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Jamie Nares: New Paintings
1 May - 14 Jun 2002 Jamie Nares, Untitled, 2002 © Jamie Nares Read more -
Richard Caldicott: New Work
14 Mar - 20 Apr 2002 Richard Caldicott, Untitled # 195, 2001 © Richard Caldicott Read more -
Andy Warhol
1 - 30 Jun 2001 Andy Warhol, Vesuvius, 1985 © Andy Warhol Foundation Read more -
Horst on Form
18 - 30 Sep 2000 Horst P. Horst, Classical Still Life I, New York (#71), 1937 © Estate of Horst P. Horst Read more
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Don McCullin
8 May - 8 Jun 2000 Don McCullin, The Guvnors in their Sunday Suits, Finsbury Park, London, 1958 © Don McCullin Read more -
Robert Mapplethorpe: Robert Mapplethorpe
22 Mar - 1 May 1999 This exhibition will show the progression of Mapplethorpe's art and sensibility from the student drawings and collages of the alte 60's right through to the exquisitely photographed and presented works of the 80's. Many of the works in this exhibition have never been published or shown. They will provide a... Read more -
John Dugdale
4 - 23 Dec 1998 John Dugdale, Paris Porcelain Teapot, 1997 © John Dugdale Read more -
William Kleinâs New York, 1954-1995
4 Feb - 1 Mar 1997 William Klein, Gun I, New York, 1955 © Estate of William Klein Read more
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The Horst P. Horst 90th Birthday Exhibition
4 Jul - 31 Aug 1996 Horst P. Horst, Noel Coward, 1936 © Estate of Horst P. Horst Read more -
Alexander Liberman- Then: Photographs 1925-1995
1 Mar - 1 Apr 1996 Alexander Liberman, Coco Chanel, Paris, 1951 © Estate of Alexander Liberman Read more -
Alfred Stieglitz: Photogravures
6 - 31 Mar 1995 Alfred Stieglitz, The Ferry Boat, 1910 Read more -
Irving Penn: Small Trades
25 Jan - 25 Feb 1995 Irving Penn, Deep Sea Diver (C), New York, 1951 © Irving Penn Foundation Read more
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Don McCullin: Sleeping with Ghosts
18 Oct - 19 Nov 1994 Don McCullin, Flooded Fields, Somerset, 1990 © Don McCullin Read more -
Paolo Roversi: Polaroids
16 Sep - 8 Oct 1994 In the same corner of my studio, I took some nude portraits of girls. As the light flows through the window, it is not easy to describe the emotion of the moment in which my subject is there, against the wall, cut off from the rest of the world, abandoned... Read more -
William Klein: In and Out of Fashion
15 Feb - 12 Mar 1994 William Klein, Piazza di Spagna, 1960 © Estate of William Klein Read more -
Herb Ritts
1 - 31 Aug 1993 Herb Ritts, Dizzy Gillespie, Paris, 1989 © Herb Ritts Foundation Read more
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Bob Carlos Clarke: New Work
9 - 31 Jan 1992 Read more -
Helmut Newton: Big Nudes
11 - 30 Nov 1991 Helmut Newton, Big Nude III, Paris, 1980 © Helmut Newton Foundation Read more -
William Klein: Contacts
12 - 26 Oct 1991 William Klein, School's Out, Dakar, 1963 © Estate of William Klein Read more -
Joel-Peter Witkin
10 Sep - 5 Oct 1991 Joel-Peter Witkin, Studio of the Painter (Courbet), Paris © Joel-Peter Witkin Read more
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Irving Penn: Nature Morte
1 - 30 Jun 1991 Irving Penn, Ospedale, 1980 © Irving Penn Foundation Read more -
Bettina Rheims: Modern Lovers
13 Dec 1990 - 12 Jan 1991 Bettina Rheims, Sean I, Modern Lovers, Paris, Fev. 1990 © Bettina Rheims Read more -
Norman Parkinson: Works from 1934-1989
1 - 31 Oct 1990 Norman Parkinson, Impertinence, Vouge, March 1950 © Estate of Norman Parkinson Read more -
Edward Maxey
1 - 30 Sep 1990 Edward Maxey, Melody, 1988 © Edward Maxey Read more
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Robert Doisneau: Portraits of Artists
1 - 30 Apr 1990 Robert Doisneau, The Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville, 1950 © Atelier Robert Doisneau Read more -
Elliott Erwitt
5 - 31 Mar 1990 Elliott Erwitt, New York City, 1974 © Estate of Elliott Erwitt Read more -
Herb Ritts: Men/Women
5 - 28 Feb 1990 Herb Ritts, Djimon with Octopus, Hollywood (B), 1989 © Herb Ritts Foundation Read more -
Irving Penn: Retrospective
1 - 31 Jan 1990 Irving Penn, Ocelot, Prague, 1986 © Irving Penn Foundation Read more
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Don McCullin: Landscapes
6 - 24 Jun 1989 Don McCullin, Flooded Fields, Somerset © Don McCullin Read more -
Helmut Newton: New Nudes
17 Nov - 3 Dec 1988 Helmut Newton, Untitled 1, Bel Air, 1989 © Helmut Newton Foundation Read more -
Hockney on Photography
17 Nov - 3 Dec 1988 Eight photographic 'joiners' by David Hockney will go on show at Hamiltons Gallery to coincide with the publication of the Jonathan Cape title Hockney on Photography by Paul Joyce. The book chronicles conversations between Joyce and Hockney over a five-year period in which the artist discusses his use of photography... Read more -
Robert Mapplethorpe: Still Lives and Nudes
1 - 31 Mar 1988 R obert Mapplethorpe, Poppy, 1988 © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation Read more
