The Great Photographers
Photography is the story of all of us. As a species. As individuals.
It is the great democratic art form. It gives each of us a history that only the most privileged could have had before.
In the hands of the masters, it is haunting, disturbing, beautiful and moving.
Photography is a great modern art.
A series of five weekly talks by Roger Simpson.
£10 per talk of £42.50 for all five booked at the same time.
September 26th Eugene Atget (1857-1927) and Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)
French Pioneers. The Belle Epoch and Beyond.
October 3rd EJ Bellocq (1873-1949) and Diane Arbus (1923-1971)
Photography on the Edge: Outsiders in the Land of the Free.
October 10th The Farm Security Administration Project
Hard times in America. Photographers of the Great Depression.
October 17th Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
Landscape as American conviction
October 24th Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
An improbable marriage: photojournalism and surrealism