The Wick List

Viewing Dulwich Picture Gallery, Unearthed: Photography’s Roots

Dulwich Picture Gallery has never before staged a major exhibition dedicated to photography, but it’s more than made up for it with Unearthed, a chronological showcase charting the history of the medium from the 1840s to the present day through images of nature. It considers not just the innovations of key pioneers — such as William Henry Fox Talbot, Edward Weston and the French photographer Adolphe Braun — it also looks at their legacies and influence on later generations of photographers.

It includes work of several overlooked photographers too, among them the English gardener Charles Jones and the Japanese artist Kazumasa Ogawa, who combined printmaking and traditional Japanese craft techniques to produce coloured photographs 30 years before colour film was invented.

You’ll come face to face with everything from Victorian calotypes and close-ups of plant specimens, to beguiling images by the trailblazing symbolist Imogen Cunningham. Standout exhibits include Robert Mapplethorpe’s flagrantly erotic tulips and the dazzling video triptychs of Israeli artist Ori Gersht.

Unearthed offers a chance to revel in the reviving power of nature. In these uncertain times, it’s a much-needed tonic for the soul.


Share story
Dates
19 May 2021 — 30 August 2021
Location
Dulwich Picture Gallery
READ MORE
The Wick - Installation view, ‘Gerhard Richter: Engadin,’ Segantini Museum, St. Moritz, 16 December 2023 until 13 April 2024 © 2023 Gerhard Richter (09122023). Photo: Jon Etter
The Wick List

Viewing Gerhard Richter’s ode to the Alps

The Wick - Fragmentin, 'Global Wiring', 2022
The Wick List

Viewing High culture in Verbier

The Wick - Image courtesy of Muzeum Susch Art Stations Foundation,  photography, by Federico Sette
The Wick List

Viewing A tribute to the radical sculptures of Anu Põder

The Wick - London Made Me pop up shop.
Carnaby Street
December 2023
The Wick List

Doing London Made Me Shop

The Wick - Dani Trew, 'A Twitch on the Thread'
Coloured pencil and gouache on paper
101 x 102
large diptych with women plaiting hair
The Wick List

Viewing The Drawing Year 2023

The Wick - Chris Levine, 'Be Nice' Exhibition
The Wick List

Viewing Be Nice exhibition