Photographers’ Gallery to shut down next week..
Written by David White..for a year. If you need a toilet in that part of town you’ll have to step it up a notch and go to McDonald’s.
According to the BJP, they have “answered critiscisms”……not on my reading of the piece they haven’t. It would have been good to hear from them on here, but I have a feeling I’ll see a duckrabbit fly before real debate happens.
Anyway, time will tell whether they have spent the 8.7 million quid well. Fingers crossed. That’s a lot of money, lest we forget. It had better be damn good.
Discussion (2 Comments)
Option A.
The Barbican photographic shows. Araki’s retrospective was amazing. So was the Capa/Taro retrospective This is War!. At the end, I can buy a book of lovely prints that tell the story of their careers and get a real sense of social history for around £40, a mug for a tenner and a big poster too for £20. Lovely!
Option B.
The Photographer’s Gallery. I particularly like the way the coffee bar places work up for sale for us punters to buy. Love the way they put several thousand pound digital prints up for us all to get involved in this wonderful world of photography. I’ll put that on my credit card that is so beautiful. Paying rent and putting food on the table to feed my family is far too overrated anyway. My husband/wife is going to be so proud seeing that piece of Art on the wall everyday… reminding us why we now shop at Lidl.
I think Print Space can make prints like that in Old Street costing £217 for a 1.5m by 2m… hmmm that is a hefty premium but hey… look at the way that image conveys the “paradox of imagined spaces where a subtle conflict of identity plays itself out in a beautifully composed medium format square highlighting perfectly just how modernity and globalisation has changed us all” as represented by this wonderful photo of an empty disused building inviting our imaginations fill the existential void created by this piece of visual genius…
Option C.
As a taxpayer, ask if this deficit cutting government might just think that better value might be had serving the 99.9% of people who go “F*ck… HOW MUCH!!!?????”
Who are the circle of friends that the curator has because they must be telling them they are wonderful and doing something very right… I’ll stay and get a coffee, a bit of banana cake before I head off to meet those people of the rest of the world who live a very different social reality to this lot… probably won’t come back to be told I am too poor to appreciate “culture”.
Nice pictures though.
Option D.
My triple barrelled surname friend told me this was great. I studied just the same thing kind of thing during my History of Art degree but this is photogrpahy! Amazing how Art changes one’s perspective on the self and the world. Without culture, the world would be a very dry place. Every time I come here it reminds me of all those days spend wondering around the hub of creativity that is Cork Street and I say to myself “those days at the Royal Academy” really enriched my soul. I am going call father and tell him that at £2,000, it is a steal as his Burtynsky cost him £10,000 and this is a limited edition too. It can go in the gallery room on the fourth floor. I am sure this would sell for more at Frieze in the future. He might buy stocks and shares but what a great investment opportunity this is. My parents invested so much for my education and I can now show them it was definitely worth it. What a way to earn a living… I cannot imagine working at doing anything else. I only wished I came to the invitation only opening to share a chardonnay and chat to some people in the know and tell how wonderful they are providing these facilities for people like us to enjoy. What a wonderful world this is…
Option E.
The toilets used to be free here. Oh well.. off to Maccy D’s it is then!