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showcase magazine Jun 2011 london issue 281

Hockney and Ruby by Jonathan Root, 2010 Photo Gallery

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Entry is now open for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2011, the leading international photographic portrait competition, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography. The competition is open to everyone aged 18 and over from around the world.

Organised by the National Portrait Gallery in London, the prize has established a reputation for its diversity of photographic styles submitted by a range of photographers, from gifted amateurs and photography students to established professionals.

In the prize’s search for excellence, photographers are encouraged to interpret ‘portrait’ in its widest sense of ‘photography concerned with portraying people with an emphasis on their identity as individuals.’

The winner of the competition will receive £12,000. In addition the judges, at their discretion, will award cash prizes to one or more shortlisted photographers. For a third year Elle magazine will award the 'Elle Commission'. The selected photographer will shoot a feature story in a forthcoming issue of the magazine.

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showcase magazine Dec 2009 london issue 190

Exhibition: Beatles to Bowie Photo Gallery

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Upcoming events at the National Portrait Gallery:

Beatles to Bowie - until 24th January. This major exhibition explores the leading pop music personalities who helped create 'Swinging London' in the 1960s. Over 150 photographs, together with a range of memorabilia, illustrate how the photographic image, music and performance made these pop stars the leading icons of their time.

The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2009 presents the very best in contemporary portrait photography until 14th February 2010.

Irving Penn Portraits will include over 120 exquisite prints, many vintage, ranging from his earliest portraits for Vogue magazine in 1944 to the present day, from 18th February onwards.

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showcase magazine Sep 2009 london issue 177

Photo: Joe Dallesandro by Paul Morrissey, 1968 Photo Gallery

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Gay Icons, until 18th October.

Gay Icons explores gay social and cultural history through the unique personal insights of ten high profile gay figures, who have selected their historical and modern icons.

The chosen icons, who may or may not be gay themselves, have all been important to each selector, having influenced their gay sensibilities or contributed to making them who they are today. They include artists Francis Bacon and David Hockney; writers Daphne du Maurier and Quentin Crisp; composers Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Benjamin Britten; musicians K.D. Lang, the Village People and Will Young; entertainers Ellen DeGeneres, Lily Savage and Kenneth Williams; sports stars Martina Navratilova and Ian Roberts; and political activists Harvey Milk and Angela Mason.

Their fascinating and inspirational stories are illustrated by over sixty photographic portraits including works by Andy Warhol, Snowdon and Cecil Beaton, together with specially commissioned portraits of the selectors by Mary McCartney. All are set in a striking exhibition design conceived by renowned theatre designer, Robert Jones.

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showcase magazine Jan 2008 london issue 102

Jean Harlow by George Hurrell Photo Gallery

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Some of the greatest portrait photographs of the twentieth century were taken for, or published in, Vanity Fair. This exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery features 150 classic images of significant people in art, film, music, sport, business and politics, from the magazine's early period (1913-36) to its subsequent re-birth in 1983.

Works by legendary photographers such as Edward Steichen and Cecil Beaton are shown alongside those of celebrated modern-day photographers such as Annie Leibovitz and Mario Testino.

With subjects as diverse as Claude Monet, Cary Grant and Madonna, Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008 will, from 14th February to 26th May, 2008, present an exceptional range of photographic portraiture from the early years of the twentieth century to the present day.

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showcase magazine Oct 2007 london issue 92

Artist: Andy Warhol Artist: Ray Johnson Photo Gallery

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Pop Art Portraits [11 Oct - 20 Jan]

This major international exhibition is the first to explore the role and significance of portraiture within Pop Art, one of the most important and popular artistic movements of the twentieth century. Presenting a visual dialogue between American and British Pop, the exhibition focuses on key portraits by leading artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Blake and Richard Hamilton.

Pop Art flourished in Britain and the USA during the 1950s and 1960s and was closely connected with the rise of consumer culture. For that reason Pop is usually seen as being concerned with the depiction of objects. Pop Art Portraits takes a different view. It shows how Pop artists reinvigorated and redefined portraiture, creating new kinds of portraits: from those depicting recognisable sitters, to portraits with a hidden or imaginary subject.

The exhibition is divided into six sections, including screenings of Warhol's influential 'Screen Tests' and a secular 'chapel' devoted to portraits of film star Marilyn Monroe.

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