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My review of Andreas Gursky at the Hayward Gallery London (till 22 April 2018)
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My review of Andreas Gursky at the Hayward Gallery London (till 22 April 2018) In February I went to see the Andreas Gursky show at the newly refurbished Hayward. His work sits between large scale abstract painting and photography. There is a lot to like about the show, the scale and presence of the pictures is arresting. There is an admirable seriousness of intention and ambition in most of them. A recent iphone picture view of the US midwest from a car (below) is terrific. A 4m long print of clubbers, seemingly shot individually, with very carefully controlled colour, is...
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A cold winter afternoon but great light
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Whenever possible am getting out for the last couple of hours of sunlight, today near Woodchurch. I was testing out a really cheap elderly (1980s) 200mm f4 Canon EF lens. Bought for £40 on ebay and used on my Sony A7R2 with an adapter, it looks to perform better than my modern Canon 70-200 zoom. This was inspired after finding a very interesting site about using manual lenses, old and new, on modern Sony bodies.... https://phillipreeve.net/blog/ Although having said that this is a 2 frame stitched picture shot on the Sony using a Canon 85mm f1.8.