Side Gallery
Current Exhibitions
Saturday 9 May - Saturday 27 June 2009
Le Petit Balcon dance hall by Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau
One of documentary photography's greats, Doisneau's life's work was a narrative of Paris. "In Paris, I know the town. I always need a lot of time, I have to be very familiar with a place, to feel I am part of it... I am part of the setting. I know it. Everywhere. I know places where I can stop if I'm tired. I have a friend who is a printer, another who is a leather gilder, another who is a cabinet maker. I go to see them. I know that it is city life, but I like it. When I go off to another country, I begin looking and feeling like a tourist."
After Amber's Murray Martin visited him in Paris, Side Gallery presented and toured the first major exhibition of Doisneau in this country in the early eighties. He died in 1994.
Juchitan wedding ceremony by Graciela Iturbide
A Woman's Eye
Women photographing women
An exploration of the portraiture and presentation of women by women photographers, the exhibition draws on the wealth of the Side Photographic Collection.
A striptease artist is photographed by Diane Arbus, women at Newcastle Hoppings by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, a girl dressed as a mermaid by Martine Franck. From South America, there are disturbing photographs from the civil war in El Salvador by Susan Meiselas, Graciela Iturbide’s rich portraits of a matriarchal community in Juchitan, Mexico and Sophia Evans’ magical images of Nicaragua’s Mosquito Coast.
A Women’s Eye also features work by Miriam Reik, Dana Kyndrova, Véronique L’Esperat-Héquet, Tish Murtha, Isabela Jedrzejczyk, Karen Robinson and Laura Junka.