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Special Guest Selection by:
James Hyman
Director, James Hyman Photography, London
Overview: I was struck by the diversity of the work presented and by the range of approaches. However, given my particular interest in subjective and conceptual forms of social photography, the artists selected include those whose themes reflect their interest in specific aspects of society. I am very interested in forms of contemporary documentary or post-documentary practise in which there is a subjective dimension and works in which the photographer's relationship to the subject is significant. I am also interested in the relationship between past, present and future, in the ways that traces of history - whether family, culture or ethnicity - are manifest in the present. I am also intrigued by the way that emerging artists draw from their elders, sub-consciously but also, often, self-consciously in the creation of their work.
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James Hyman received his doctorate from the Courtauld Institute in London, where he subsequently taught. He worked for the Saatchi Collection, Christies and Helly Nahmad Gallery before opening his own gallery. An art historian and art dealer, his book, The Battle for Realism: Figurative Art in the Cold War (Yale University Press, 2001) was shortlisted for the W. B. Berger Prize for studies in British Art History. A collector of photographs from the 1840s to the present, a selection from his collection of twentieth century Modernist works was the subject of a single-owner evening sale at Christies, New York in 2007. He is a former Treasurer of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA, British Section) and is on the Executive of the Society of London Art Dealers (SLAD). |
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