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Portraits

February 12, 2017 by Garry Cook

Blog & recent news: The Long Lens blog: Photography with added snaps, art and culture

Courtaulds exhibition at Preston’s Harris Musuem

Images of the Courtaulds exhibition now on at the Harris Museum in Preston. The exhibition is about the history of the Courtaulds factory at Red Scar, near Preston. The centre-piece is Deauville by Eugene Boudin, painted in 1893 and now owned by The Courtaulds Gallery – pretty much all that is left of the Courtaulds […]

REVIEW: The Audit by Proto-type Theatre (at The Lowry, Salford)

The prospect of going to see a performance about the Icelandic banks and the global economy crisis is not an easy sell. A huge, utterly complex and dry subject, you have to admire Proto-type Theatre‘s ambition with The Audit. And what you also have to admire is their brilliance in delivering an engaging, socially-critical piece […]

EXHIBITION: Preston’s Courtauld’s Connection

The sarcastic bit: After months of being asked I finally agreed boost the career of an up and coming artist (French landscape painter Eugene Boudin, 1824-1898, who once sold a painting through Christie’s for £1,237,875) by allowing his work to hang alongside my own photography. You can see four of my images – and just […]

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