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Richard Rogers Partnership, Lloyd’s of London, 1978-86. © Richard Bryant / arcaidimages.com & Piano + Rogers, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1971-77. © Francois Le Diascorn / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
© TRACEY EMIN. All rights reserved, DACS 2013. Photo: KERRY RYAN.
Sidney Nolan, 'Ned Kelly' (detail), 1946. Enamel paint on composition board. 90.8 x 121.5 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Sunday Reed, 1977.
José Chávez Morado, 'Carnaval en Huejotzingo (Carnival in Huejotzingo)' (detail), 1939. Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 96.5 cm. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Loyal Davis © DACS 2013.
2 September 2011
In the Reynolds Room, a John Madejski Fine Room
Martin Munkácsi, 'Nude in Straw Hat', 1944. Silver gelatin print, 1994, from original negative. 35.5 x 27.5 cm. Hungarian Museum of Photography, Kecskemét. © Estate of Martin Munkácsi, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York Photography is poetry in stopped motion. The power of such arrested moments has been fascinating to many poets from the invention of the camera onwards.
This programme of readings, an album of poems on photography, is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century. Performed by George Szirtes, Timothy West, Prunella Scales and Christian Roe.
6.30–7.30pm
Event £12
Event plus exhibition entry £16 / £7 reductions (students, jobseekers and people with disabilities)
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