The most exciting exhibition I’ve visited since moving to London has got to be the Glamour of the Gods exhibition that was showing at The National Portrait Gallery. It has now come to a close now, which is a little bit sad. I would have loved for it to have stayed there as a permanent collection. The photographs ranged from the 1920’s up to the 1960’s, but it wasn’t just about the photographs and the actor/actress that was portrayed in them. It was also a lot about the photographers themselves. This was a really interesting exhibition because you were able to read about the actor/actress and where the photograph was taken, (usually on the film set) and then there was information about the photographer, which told you what they were about and what they were doing at the time the image was taken.
It’s not often that you get to know about the photographer or artist. Most of the time the focus is on the piece of work itself or the subject within it and the actual photographer doesn’t really get a mention apart from a small caption, if they’re lucky.
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