Brooklyn, NY | Nov. 8, 2013 - Feb. 2, 2014

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Brooklyn Museum: War Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and its Aftermath

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The Brooklyn Museum’s exhibition explores images of armed conflict and its aftermath, including the work of some 255 photographers from around the globe who have covered military action over the last 166 years.  The collection features Bristol’s most famous image of a naked gunner in the turret of a rescue plane keeping an eye on enemy fire.  This is the final venue for the travelling exhibition curated by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Bristol’s work was last seen in Santa Barbara as part of SBMA’s Taking Root: A Century of Migrant Workers in California and Horace Bristol:100 at the East/West Gallery.

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Oklahoma | Nov. 16, 2013 - March 16, 2014

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On Assignment: The photojournalism of Horace Bristol at the Fred Jones Museum of Art, Oklahoma

The ongoing exhibition at the Fred Jones Museum of Art is a large scale retrospective of Bristol’s work, beginning with the striking portraits of migrant laborers in California that he took with John Steinbeck, and whose story was the inspiration for Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath.   It also includes images taken for the U.S. Navy under acclaimed photographer Edward Steichen, and photographs of war ravaged Japan Bristol took for his East-West Photographic agency.

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Santa Barbara | First Thursday Nov. 2013

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The work of Horace Bristol, including newly discovered images from Indonesia, is featured in two upcoming Santa Barbara exhibitions.  

ON VIEW IN SANTA BARBARA: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7

Horace Bristol, one of the original LIFE magazine photographers and the impetus for John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer Prize winning epic The Grapes of Wrath, is the central focus of a major exhibition this fall at the Fred Jones Museum of Art in Oklahoma, and featured in a traveling exhibition from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ending its run at the Brooklyn Museum this fall.   His images will be on display in Santa Barbara at two locations for 1st Thursday in November.

 

“The Space” at Crowdspending

Thursday, November 7, 2013

740 State Street | Suite 300 | 5-8pm

Kyle Irwin Design 

Thursday, November 7, 2013

39 E. De La Guerra | 5-8pm

 

Horace Bristol, working as a staff and freelance photojournalist for some of the 20th Century’s most significant publications, including Time, LIFE, Fortune, and National Geographic, used his camera to record the human, intimate moments in the grand sweep of history.  He captured the best and the worst of this century, from poignant images of the urban poor and migrant farm workers during the Depression, to battle scenes of World War II and compelling portraits of post-war Japan and Southeast Asia.

“The Space” at Crowdspending will feature Bristol’s large-scale design work from the 1930s in California through images of post-war Japan, while the images at Kyle Irwin Design will focus on the 1939 photographs he took in Indonesia for a LIFE magazine cover story, a 14-page spread that was the magazine’s largest international feature.   These images were recently showcased in an exhibition of his work in Indonesia in 2010, and are the first public viewing of the material in California.

Bristol’s work was last seen in Santa Barbara as part of SBMA’s Taking Root: A Century of Migrant Workers in California and Horace Bristol:100 at the East/West Gallery.

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