Bob Gomel, Daniel Meadows, Albert Watson
Black Muslim leader Malcolm X with Cassius Clay (shortly to become Muhammad Ali) at the Vitory party after he defeated Sonny Liston for the Heavyweight Championship, Miami, February, 1964. ©Bob Gomel/Courtesy Monroe Gallery of Photography
Monroe Gallery of Photography | Bob Gomel: Classics, October 6, 2023 – November 19, 2023
“Santa Fe--Monroe Gallery of Photography, 112 Don Gaspar, is pleased to announce a special exhibition of photographs celebrating Bob Gomel’s recent 90th birthday with several never-before-seen photographs from three of his most iconic assignments for LIFE magazine: photographs of The Beatles, Muhammad Ali, and President John F. Kennedy.
“The exhibition “Bob Gomel: Classics” opens with a Gallery conversation with Bob Gomel on Friday, October 6. Talk begins promptly at 5:30, seating is limited and RSVP is essential; contact the Gallery for live Zoom registration. The exhibition continues through November 19, 2023.
“The photographs of Bob Gomel put you in a diner with Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X after Ali’s defeat of Sonny Liston, poolside with the Beatles, and in the audience at Rice University as President John F. Kennedy delivered his historic “We choose to go to the Moon” speech. This exhibit explores three classic assignments for LIFE magazine with many never-before-seen photographs of The Beatles, Muhammad Ali, and President John F. Kennedy.”
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Circus Hoffan, Neil with his head in an elephant's mouth, Weymnouth, Dorset. July 1974. ©Daniel Meadows
Center for British Photography | Daniel Meadows: Free Photographic Omnibus 50th Anniversary, October 5, 2023 – December 17, 2023
“The 50th anniversary of Daniel Meadows’ Free Photographic Omnibus and Charlie Phillips’s 50-year work on Afro Caribbean funerals in London are the two lead exhibitions considering communities opening at the Centre for British Photography on Wednesday 4 October. Community-focussed work of three other photographers is also on show: Grace Lau’s Chinese portrait studio; Dorothy Bohm’s photographs of London street markets; and Arpita Shah’s portraits of young British Asian women.
“On 22 September 1973, Daniel Meadows set off on a long-planned adventure in a rickety 1948 double-decker bus that he had repurposed as his home, gallery and darkroom. He was intent on making a portrait of England. He was 21 years old.
“Over the next 14 months, traveling alone, Meadows crisscrossed the country covering 10,000 miles. He photographed 958 people, in 22 towns and cities. From circus performers to day trippers. He developed and printed the photographs as he went along, giving them away for free to those who posed for him.
“This exhibition features dozens of photographs, including loans from The Hyman Collection, as well as previously unseen works of documentary reportage that Meadows made during his travels.
“The project was heralded as highly original, a project guided by its subjects as much as the photographer, and an experiment in countercultural values, socialist principals and collaboration, and 50 years later it is just as remarkable.”
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Albert Watson, Car View, Tree, Skye, 2013. Courtesy Hamiltons
Hamiltons Gallery | Albert Watson: SKYE, October 7, 2023 – November 17, 2023
“Hamiltons is delighted to announce the exhibition Albert Watson: SKYE from 7th October – 17th November. In honour of his first exhibition with the gallery in over a decade, the artist has chosen a selection of breath-taking landscapes from his ‘first fine art project’ shot in the photographer’s native Scotland.”
“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 him to produce a body of extraordinary photographs that he hoped would do more than simply document the landscape. Watson recalls, ‘I was terrified of coming to Skye and producing picture postcards. I wanted to create landscapes that were quite mysterious, I deliberately went in October and November because I was hoping for bad weather – and of course I got it. I find blue sky with white fluffy clouds deadly when it comes to creating a powerful landscape and I was looking for wind and rain and mist.'”
“The exhibition consists of four oversized black and white works printed on linen, in addition to these will be a selection of smaller, archival pigment prints of jewel coloured landscapes.”
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