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Unearthed: Photography's Roots, Dulwich Picture Gallery

17 Jun 20 – 20 Sep 20, Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 5pm

Dulwich Picture Gallery announces an exhibition that explores the history of photography through depictions of plant life

By CW Contributor on 16/9/2019

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Unearthed: Photography's Roots, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Unearthed: Photography's Roots, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Unearthed: Photography's Roots, Dulwich Picture Gallery Unearthed: Photography's Roots, Dulwich Picture Gallery Emily Spicer
Carrots, cabbages and garden flowers might not seem like obvious subjects for an exhibition, but Dulwich Picture Gallery wants to convince us otherwise. Next summer the gallery will launch a show that explores the history of photography through images of nature. Over 100 works spanning the last 180 years will chart the rise of the medium, highlighting how our fascination with flora has led to some key developments in photographic techniques.


Unearthed: Photography’s Roots will present the work of 25 pioneers in the field, including William Henry Fox Talbot and Robert Mapplethorpe. There will be some lesser-known names, too, such as the gardener Charles Jones, who took striking images of the plants he worked with. These images are now hailed as innovative examples of modernist photography, but were only discovered in a trunk in Bermondsey market 20 years after his death in 1981.



(Detail) Ori Gersht, On Reflection, 2014. Courtesy of the Artist.


The gallery’s Mausoleum, which is situated halfway through the exhibition space, will provide the setting for Ori Gersht’s work On Reflection. Gersht, who is fascinated by the still-life genre, spent months crafting silk flowers, which he arranged into intricate bouquets in his studio in front of glass mirrors. The mirrors were then shattered by an electrical charge while the reflections were filmed from different perspectives. The resulting film records the meticulous arrangements as they transform into kaleidoscopic patterns, which disintegrate before our eyes, highlighting the fragile, fleeting nature of all the subjects in this exhibition.


In combining some unusual imagery from an international cast of photographers, this show promises to be full of surprises and unexpected discoveries, even for the most avid photography fan.


What Unearthed: Photography's Roots, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Where Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London, SE21 7AD | MAP
Nearest tube Brixton (underground)
When 17 Jun 20 – 20 Sep 20, Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 5pm
Price £tbc
Website Click here for more information



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