We’ve realized of the dying of Brian Griffin. Born in Birmingham in 1948, he’s extensively acknowledged as probably the most outstanding British photographers of his era, continually engaged on new supplies and nonetheless pushing boundaries of latest images. In 2019, we revealed the next article on the event of the exhibition organized by the MMX Gallery in London.
Brian Griffin : Work and Different Tales
MMX Gallery is exhibiting a number of Brian Griffin’s early work from the Seventies and Eighties. Exhibited prints will embody photographs from his books Moscow, 1974; Copyright, 1978; Energy, 1981 and Work, 1988.
Impressed by tremendous artwork actions; from Renaissance to Symbolism, Expressionism and Surrealism movie and literature, Griffin started his profession taking company portraits for Administration As we speak Journal within the early Seventies, the journal that took the publishing world by storm, combining hard-hitting editorial with progressive design.
Rising up and dealing within the Industrial Midlands of England, this influenced Griffin to outline his aesthetic and set up actual feelings and character to the folks in entrance of his digital camera, setting scenes and forging his personal imaginative and distinctive visible language.
Drawing on his in depth again catalogue, MMX Gallery can be exhibiting over thirty prints which have been hardly ever seen in London for many years.
Many of the works on present are Classic Silver Gelatin or Classic Silver Bromide prints and all on the market. There may also be signed copies of Copyright 1978, the primary self-published picture e-book within the UK, revealed by the person himself; Brian Griffin.
He’s well-known for his ground-breaking method to portraiture from Iggy Pop to Kate Bush, and quite a few excessive profile tasks stretching from ‘Work’ within the 1980’s to his venture charting ‘The Street to 2012’, commissioned by the Nationwide Portrait Gallery. ‘Work’ went on to be awarded the Greatest Images e-book within the World on the Barcelona Primavera Fotografica 1991 and The Life journal used the {photograph} “A Damaged Body” on its entrance cowl of a particular complement “The Biggest Images Of The 80’s”.
All through his profession, over twenty monographs of Griffin’s work have been revealed, his work has been the topic of over fifty worldwide solo exhibitions and is held in institutional collections together with the Victoria & Albert Museum,
London; the Arts Council of Nice Britain, London; the British Council, London; the Nationwide Portrait Gallery, London; the Museum Folkwang, Essen; the Birmingham Museum and Artwork Gallery; the Artwork Museum Reykjavík, Iceland; the Mast Basis, Bologna; and the Museu da Imagem, Braga, Portugal.
In 2009, Brian Griffin grew to become the patron of FORMAT Pageant and in 2013 he acquired the Centenary Medal from the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of a lifetime achievement in images.
Brian Griffin : Work and Different Tales
7 June – 3 August 2019
MMX Gallery
448 New Cross Rd,
London SE14 6TY
www.mmxgallery.com