The show focuses on key moments in photographic history, starting with early pioneers who set the tone for portraiture and street photographers to come, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Dorothea Lange, Edward Steichen and Brassai. It also includes the photographers who played with the medium and turned it in on itself such as Man Ray and Robert Mapplethorpe. There will also be previously unseen self-portraits by Vivian Maier – the nanny-come-street photography who’s fascinating work was discovered in 2007 in locked storage containers and became the story of a critically acclaimed documentary recently released on DVD.  There will also be works by fashion photographers such as Horst P Horst and Cecil Beaton.

Vivian Maier, New York, 10 April, 1955. © the artist, courtesy of Beetles+Huxley and Osborne Samuel

And if that isn’t enough, there will also be works by landscape photographers and travel photographers such as pioneer Herbert Ponting and Frank Hurley who was part of the Shackleton Expedition to Antarctica.

The exhibition consists of over 150 works – which isn’t that many considering the amount of time it is covering – nevertheless, the works on show come from the masters of medium and as a result, make for great viewing. (Words: Laura Thornley)

From 20th November to 23 December. For more info visit: www.osbornesamuel.com/programme/the-photographers-2014

(Banner photo credit: Bruce Davidson, Marilyn Monroe with Cameraman on set of The Misfits, 1960. © the artist, courtesy of Beetles+Huxley and Osborne Samuel)

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