13.02.13 - 28.03.13 Josef Hoflehner - Jet Airliner and Ha...
12.12.12 - 09.02.13 Finders Keepers
22.06.12 - 22.08.12 Ellen von Unwerth - Do Not Disturb
20.04.12 - 26.05.12 Christer Strömholm
24.02.12 - 31.03.12 Hisaji Hara
02.12.11 - 21.01.12 Boris Savelev - Colour Constructions
07.10.11 - 12.11.11 Jerusalem
09.07.11 - 24.09.11 Made in Hungary
24.02.11 - 21.04.11 Sohei Nishino - The Diorama Map Series
09.12.10 - 31.01.11 Leopoldo Pomés - Vintage Prints
22.10.10 - 20.11.10 Mary McCartney
09.09.10 - 16.10.10 Shomei Tomatsu
30.06.10 - 21.08.10 Russia! Boris Savelev, Nicolay Bakhar...
28.04.10 - 26.06.10 Miroslav Tichy
14.01.10 - 25.04.10 Fernand Fonssagrives
04.12.09 - 15.04.10 Winter/Spring Newsletter
25.11.09 - 09.01.10 Weegee-It's a crime to take photogra...
14.10.09 - 21.11.09 Ellen von Unwerth- Fräulein
02.07.09 - 02.12.09 Summer Newsletter
19.06.09 - 13.10.09 A Gallerist's Choice-Group Show
21.04.09 - 26.06.09 Boris Savelev- 31 years
11.03.09 - 20.04.09 Miyako Ishiuchi -1906 to the Skin/Yok...
18.02.09 - 07.03.09 Sergei Vasiliev-Russian Criminal Tattoos
05.02.09 - 01.07.09 Spring/Summer Newsletter
25.11.08 - 20.01.09 Secret City
16.10.08 - 22.11.08 Sarah Moon - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
22.09.08 - 01.01.09 Mixed Show
03.09.08 - 11.10.08 Lucien Hervé
01.08.08 - 18.09.08 Jones Beach - Joseph Szabo
12.06.08 - 01.09.08 Miroslav Tichy
01.06.08 - 15.07.08 Ruth Orkin
17.04.08 - 07.06.08 The New York School
22.02.08 - 05.04.08 Mirella Ricciardi
06.12.07 - 26.01.08 The Bold and the Beautiful
04.10.07 - 01.12.07 Eyes Of An Island - Japanese Photogra...
12.09.07 - 29.09.07 LONDON - Matthew Pillsbury
02.07.07 - 04.08.07 Dr. Harold Edgerton
28.06.07 - 01.08.07 Alfred Eisenstaedt
01.06.07 - 27.06.07 Colin Jones - The Black House
26.04.07 - 17.06.07 Edward Quinn - A Day's Work
03.02.07 - 14.04.07 Fashion
01.02.07 - 10.03.07 Hunter S. Thompson - Gonzo
29.11.06 - 03.01.07 Peter Beard - Time's Up
26.10.06 - 03.11.06 Flip Shulke - Hero
12.10.06 - 14.11.06 David Parker – Sirens II
12.09.06 - 07.10.06 Emil Otto Hoppé - Hoppé's London
23.05.06 - 01.07.06 Botanicals
11.05.06 - 17.06.06 Miroslav Tichy & Jacques Henry Lartigue
01.09.05 - 01.10.05 Ken Griffiths - Three Gorges
23.04.05 - 31.05.05 Sarah Moon - Circus
08.03.05 - 06.04.05 Joseph Szabo - Teenage
24.11.04 - 31.01.05 Peter Beard - Living Sculpture
04.11.04 - 15.01.05 Matthew Pilsbury - Screen Lives
15.09.04 - 30.10.04 David Parker - Sirens
20.11.03 - 17.01.04 Photographs from the Bauhaus
For past exhibitions at Michael Hoppen Contemporary click here
Botanicals
23.05.06 - 01.07.06
Rosa ‘Christo’
© Ron Von Dongen
Silver Gelatin Print
41x51cm
Botanicals, an exhibition of floral photographs to coincide with this years’ Chelsea Flower Show. The exhibition spans over a century of botanical photography from the early pioneering work of Fox Talbot, rare photogravures by Karl Blossfeldt, to the contemporary Robert Mapplethorpe, Nobuyoshi Araki and the first UK exhibition of striking new colour work by Ron van Dongen.
The flower has always inspired artists and photographers alike. The photographers in this exhibition all had different motivations for using the flower as their subject matter. Fox Talbot used flowers for their intricate 2-D shapes in his “talbotypes”, Karl Blossfeldt, just after the turn of the century, used organic forms to teach sculpture at the Berliner Kunsthochschule in Berlin. Blossfeldt's home-made camera magnified the forms up to 30 times, producing some of the most intricate botanical photography to date. More recently, Ron van Dongen’s photographs stem from his use of flowers in place of human sitters whilst experimenting with light and the tonal range of human skin. He found, instead, a deep understanding for the delicate nature of the flower captured in his contemplative photographs. The contemporary selection will also include the work of Robert Mapplethorpe and the sexually charged photography of Noboyashi Araki who held his first retrospective exhibition at the Barbican late last year.