Exile on Main Street

Robert Frank - Exile on Main Street, Rolling Stones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lNP-x94-SE

The Americans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtRZBDOgag

I'm in Love with a German Film Star

One of Sam Taylor Woods Video and a found piece that references our lecture on 'The Face of Garbo' (Roland Barthes, Mythologies)

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=JPxgOvWU3DA#t=59

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6kMIFwsIh0

UEL Discourse Blog of the Week!

http://www.hannahchblog.blogspot.com/

Please take a look! Well done Hannah - a great first blog that is well researched considered personal comments on Sam Taylor Wood

Ori Gersht - Places That Were Not - Last Chance!!

Ori Gersht: Places That Were Not

Andrew Mummery Gallery

Until 27th February

The exhibition comprises of photographs from two bodies of work made in 2008 and 2009, Evaders and Hide and Seek. As in previous series, Gersht’s depictions of landscape address ideas about memory, history and identity. They are images of places or journeys that are simultaneously physical and metaphysical, partly real and partly mythological. Photography’s claim to truth is questioned and rather than being presented with the depiction of a specific moment in time, the viewer is left instead with images that are suggestive of something that happened in the past, or might happen in the future.

Mummery + Schnelle
83 Great Titchfield Street
London W1W 6RH

T: +44 (0)20 7636 7344
F: +44 (0)20 3205 0192

Nearest tube station: Oxford Circus

Opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10am-6pm

William Eggleston - Last Chance!

William Eggleston

21st Century

15 January - 27 February 2010

William Eggleston is one of the most influential photographers of the last half-century. Born in 1939, Eggleston has lived and worked in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee throughout most of his sixty-year career. Hailed as the father of colour photography, his ability to find beauty in the banal has changed the way we look at the world. Along with Gary Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, Eggleston forms part of a generation of post-war photographers whose works liberated the medium from the restrictive rules and conventions of the period. A Southerner raised on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta, Eggleston has created a singular portrait of his native South. His colour prints monumentalise the everyday: the parking lots, diners, motel rooms and lives of the people of his native environment. Behind Eggleston's deceptive casualness lies an acute and instinctive sense of colour and form, and under his gaze the ordinary is invested with powerful significance.

21st Century presents new photographs with increasingly abstracted compositions.

Victoria Miro Gallery

16 Wharf Road,

London N1 7RW

www.victoria-miro.com

Open Tues to Sat

10am to 6pm,

Admission Free

Tube: Old Street & Angel

Eija-Lisa Ahtila - Just Next Door William Eggleston Exhibition

Eija-Liisa Ahtila
26 February- 25 April 2010
(Private view 25 February, 6.30 - 9 pm)

Renowned Finnish film and video artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila. It will include three important moving image installations never before seen in England.

Ahtila is best known for works that concentrates on narratives in human life together with the relationships and primal emotions that underlie them. She describes her films as ‘human dramas’ because they play on the central themes of our existence, such as love, death, sexuality, the difficulty of communication, and individual identity – both its formation and disintegration.

Parasol unit
foundation for contemporary art
14 Wharf Road
London N1 7RW
T 44 (0)20 7490 7373
info@parasol-unit.org
www.parasol-unit.org