February 9, 2026 - Tom Gitterman
Rarely do I find an artist’s monograph achieves something greater than a well-edited selection of images and a contextual essay. Dan Estabrook’s Forever & Ever does exactly that. It presents his work from the past three decades as almost a sculptural object that reminds us of the expressive potential of the book form...
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August 16, 2024 - Dr. Marcus Bunyan
Roger Mayne was truly a magnificent, poetic artist. His subjects, though never appearing “posed,” confront the spectator in vivid and completely natural un/reality.4 Spirits who still inhabit London’s deliquescent urban spaces.
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July 6, 2024
This exhibition, curated by Jane Alison in close collaboration with Mayne’s daughter, Katkin Tremayne, features over 60 vintage photographs, some never exhibited before. While the two bodies of work, street and family, have a different tenor, they are united by Mayne’s radical empathy with his youthful subjects and his desire to create photographic images that enjoy a lasting impact, produced with great sensitivity and artistic integrity. With Mayne’s post-war subjects now in their more senior years, and today’s younger generation facing a myriad crises, Mayne’s deliberations on growing up, childhood, adolescence and family feel especially poignant and timely.
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June 28, 2024
This is an absorbing show. Do not miss it.
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June 25, 2024 - Beth Williamson
Roger Mayne’s genuine curiosity about people shines through in his photographs of kids playing on the streets of 1950s and 60s Britain and intimate shots of his family.
The documentary images of photographer Roger Mayne (1929-2014) are the subject of the first ever exhibition of photography to take place in the main galleries of the Courtauld. Focusing on his unique way of capturing the youth of the day in the 1950s and 60s, the exhibition brings together his well-known photographs of Southam Street in west London, and others of that ilk, alongside some very special family photographs of his children growing up. With such a personal angle, it is crucial that the guest curator, Jane Alison, has worked closely with Mayne’s daughter, Katkin Tremayne, over several years to bring this passion project to fruition.
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June 17, 2024 - Charlotte Jansen
In its 92-year history, the Courtauld Gallery in London has never acquired or exhibited photography – until now. Its inaugural exhibition is Roger Mayne: Youth, devoted to some 60 works by the self-taught British photographer best known for his documents of working-class children on the poor and battered streets of postwar London.
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June 14, 2024 - Florence Hallett
His striking, often beautiful pictures of children, are real, unaffected and never sentimental.
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June 13, 2024 - Mark Hudson
The photographer may not be a household name, but his gritty, monochrome images of 1950s Britain are instantly recognisable, brought together in this lovingly curated must-see show at the Courtauld Gallery.
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June 12, 2024 - Jane Alison
June 14 – September 1
Acclaimed British photographer Roger Mayne (1929 – 2014) was famous for his evocative documentary images of young people growing-up in Britain in the mid-1950s and ‘60s.
This exhibition, of around 60 almost exclusively vintage photographs, includes many of his iconic street images of children and teenagers, alongside an almost entirely unknown selection of intimate and moving later images of his own family at home in Dorset, as well as those taken on his honeymoon in Spain in 1962.
Self-taught and influential in the acceptance of photography as an art form, Mayne was passionate about photographing human life as he found it.
This is The Courtauld's first ever photography exhibition.
June 8, 2024
The Courtauld Gallery’s first ever photography exhibition celebrates the work of the Cambridge photographer, with his focus on emerging youth cultures in the 1950s and 1960s.
He had been influential in helping photography to gain acceptance as an art form. Fittingly, his work now forms the first ever exhibition of photography at the Courtauld Gallery.
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