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SimonRoberts:Inscapes
PallantHouseGallery,Chichester,West
Sussex.Runsuntil 13 October.Freeentry.
THISexhibitionincludesphotography,videoandsound
bythewell-knownBritishlandscapephotographer,
SimonRoberts.Focusingonthelocationssurrounding
Petworthin SussexwherethepainterIvonHitchens
lovedtowork,theexhibitionconnectswiththe
gallery’smainsummershow(‘IvonHitchens:
SpacethroughColour’).
Simon’sworkexploreshowweexperience
landscapeswhicharefamiliartous,andis hisfirst
seriesof worktofeaturelandscapeswhichare
devoidof people.Speakingof hisimages,Simonsays,
‘I wasinterestedin immersingmyselfin theparticular
landscapesaroundWestSussexwheremuchof Ivon
Hitchens’sabstractionwasrooted.I wantedtomove
beyondjustlookingat thefabricof thelandscape,
andexploreideasof the“modestbeauty”of those
hinterlandspaces.’AmyDavies© SIMON ROBERTS
There are no captions at all for any of the images in the book, and there is no introductory
text either, so the readers are left to draw their own conclusions
Berlin/London: The Lost
Photographs of Gerty Simon
The Wiener Library, Russell Square, London.
Runs until 15 October 2019. Entrance is free.
YOU’VE still got a little while left to see the Wiener
Library’s summer exhibition, which focuses on the
work of German Jewish photographer Gerty (Gertrud)
Simon. It is part of the Insiders/Outsiders festival:
a nationwide event celebrating refugees from Nazi
Europe and their impact on British culture.
The show features many of Gerty’s original prints
from the 1920s and 1930s. She pointed her lens at
political and artistic fi gures in Weimar Berlin, including
Max Liebermann, Albert Einstein and Kurt Weill. In the
1930s, she escaped the Nazis and became a refugee
in Britain. Re-establishing her studio she photographed
fi gures including Aneurin Bevan and Dame Peggy
Ashcroft. This project aims, for the fi rst time in 80
years, to bring into focus her extraordinary work.
Flip to the back page to read a Final Analysis of one
of the images in the exhibition. Amy DaviesAlso out now
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