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May 2023

Vol. 165 | No. 1442

Photography

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Editorial

Digitising the Conway and Witt Libraries

Anxiety about the future of the two great photographic libraries housed in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, can be traced back at least thirty years. In October 1992 we published an Editorial, ‘The Witt and Conway libraries under threat’, which was prompted by a demand from the University of London that the Courtauld – not yet a self-governing and self-financing entity – produce a business plan that would show how the libraries could develop commercial opportunities to offset a threatened reduction in university funding. The financial axe did not finally fall until 2009, when the Courtauld made the staff of both the Witt and the Conway redundant.

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Mey Rahola (1897–1959): The new photographer
Mey Rahola: Desire for Horizons

Although Mey Rahola (1897–1959) was one of the first women to become renowned for art photography in Spain, she remains a little-known figure today. Two linked exhibitions with a single catalogue dedicated to the Catalan photographer set out to rectify this and liberate an overlooked artist from the shadow of anonymity. Working with Rahola’s family, the curators, Lluís Bertran Xirau, Roser Martínez Garcia and Roser Cambray, have assembled 550 items from her collection, including 250 negatives and a number of photograph albums.

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Vermeer Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 10th February–4th June

The largest gathering in history of Vermeer’s paintings presents an artist of surprising diversity who worked in isolation.

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  • Glass-plate negative of a detail from the Bayeux Tapestry

    The Bayeux Tapestry photographed

    By Ella Ravilious
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  • Lee Miller in the bathtub in Hitler’s apartment, Munich

    ‘Goethe’s house is severely wrecked’:Lee Miller at Buchenwald and Weimar

    By Katharina Günther
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  • Weegee

    One short trip to New York: Bill Jay and Tony Ray-Jones

    By Grant Scott
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  • Detail from Variable piece #70: 1971 (in process) global 633

    Landscape as grid in Stephen Shore’s‘American surfaces’

    By Thomas Cornelius
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  • Self-portrait as walking woman with bag, 1979 Lima, Peru 2019 Los Angeles, CA, from the series 1979 contact negatives

    The Photography Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

    By Lisa Stein
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  • Duncan Robinson

    Duncan Robinson (1943–2022)

    By Elizabeth Pergam
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  • The Idea of Italy: Photography and the British Imagination, 1840–1900 In Light of Rome: Early Photography in the Capital of the Art World, 1842–1871

    By Marco Iuliano
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  • Articulating the H. ijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus: The ʿAmirid Regency c.970–1010 AD

    By Rose Walker
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  • Playful Pictures: Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home

    By James R. Jewitt
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  • Woodland Imagery in Northern Art, c.1500–1800: Poetry and Ecology

    By Mark Evans
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  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze et ses têtes d’expression: La fortune d’une genre

    By Alastair Laing
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  • The Intimate Rembrandt

    By Tico Seifert
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  • Bernini: Catalogo delle sculture

    By Joseph Connors
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  • Power and Perspective: Early Photography in China

    By Claire Roberts
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  • The Traumatic Surreal: Germanophone Women Artists and Surrealism after the Second World War

    By Karla Huebner
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  • Gewebtes Gold: Eine kleine Geschichte der Metallfaden-Weberei von der Antike bis um 1800

    By Lisa Monnas
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  • The Louvre and Versailles: The Evolution of the Proto-typical Palace in the Age of Absolutism

    By Alexandre Maral
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  • Liber Amicorum in Honour of Diana Scarisbrick: A Life in Jewels

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  • Vermeer Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 10th February–4th June

    By Blaise Ducos
  • Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 24th February–4th June

    By Roy Stephenson
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  • Visionary Romantics: Balke, Lucas, Hertervig

    By David Jackson
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  • Sargent and Spain

    By Jane Dini
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  • Victor Brauner: Inventions and Magic

    By Michael Richardson
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  • Mey Rahola (1897–1959): The new photographer
    Mey Rahola: Desire for Horizons

    By Poppy Menzies Walker
  • Howardena Pindell: A New Language

    By Padraig Regan
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  • Islamic Arts Biennale

    By Mariam Rosser-Owen
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