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CURRENT NEWS & UPCOMING EVENTS...
John Kobal was a pre-eminent film historian and collector of Hollywood film photography. The author of over 30 books on film and film photography, he was known for his creative and exuberant personality, as well as his voracious knowledge of the minutiae of film and photography lore. He is credited with essentially 'rediscovering' the great Hollywood Studio photographers - George Hurrell, Laszlo Willinger, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Ted Allan et al - who were employed by the movie studios to create the glamorous, iconic portraits of the most famous and intriguing stars of the day that now epitomise Hollywood. Kobal's mission in the 1970's and 80's was to reunite these forgotten artists with their original negatives and produce new prints for exhibitions he then mounted worldwide at, amongst others, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC and LA County Museum, Los Angeles. These prints, along with the original vintage prints from the studio days form the core of the John Kobal Foundation Archive that he donated to the foundation prior to his death in 1991.
MADE IN HOLLYWOOD
"Made In Hollywood" exhibition has now finished its run in Santa Barbara (July 12th – October 12th 2008) and will be going to the following venues:
- Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, USA (May 7th – October 27th 2009)
- Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Miami, FLA, USA (February 13th - May 2nd 2010)
- Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA (June 26th - September 12th 2010)
- National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (July 7th – October 11th 2011)
- Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany (November 2011 - March 2012)
- Other dates to be confirmed
An accompanying book - "GLAMOUR OF THE GODS", has been published simultaneously by leading photographic publisher Steidl, with nearly 200 rarely seen images from the foundation's archive, a forward by John's literary executor and friend, the acclaimed film and art critic John Russell Taylor, and two essays from art historian Robert Dance.
RECENT GRANTS
Geert van Kesteren
A grant was awarded to the Lighthouse, Brighton as part of the Brighton Photo Biennial for Geert van Kesteren's exhibitions "Why Mister, Why?" and "Baghdad Calling".
Van Kestern is an internationally respected and celebrated photographer, using multimedia installation, books, print and mobile technology to produce fascinating, shocking and sometimes beautiful imagery of conflict and life in Iraq, and of the Iraqi people.
Whitechapel Gallery
Launching the John Kobal New Work Award the Whitechapel Gallery has commissioned four artists to create new work using the transformation of the former library building into the expanded Gallery as their inspiration. The resulting works by Juergen Teller, Andrew Grassie, Rosalind Nashashibi, and collaborative duo Nick Relph and Oliver Payne will be on show throughout the building from 7 April until 21 June 2009.
Simon Crocker, Chairman, The John Kobal Foundation, said "The John Kobal New Work Award has been established to encourage and commission new photographic work. The Foundation is delighted to have enabled a number of artists to complete a new project for the Whitechapel Gallery, with its longstanding commitment to contemporary art and the community of East London, as part of the launch of its wonderful new expansion."
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