Marina Vaizey amd Anne Blood consider the historical impact of photography on the fine and interpretive arts; from pioneers such as Hill and Adamson, Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre to Edward Steichen, Eadweard Muybridge and Man Ray.

Cv/VAR 104 reviews 'David Hockney RA: A Bigger Picture', exhibited at The Royal Academy January to April 2012. The project of creating monumental landscape paintings was based on a small area near the artist's home at Bridlington in East Yorkshire. The project developed with time-framed films, i-pad works, drawings, sketchbooks, oils and watercolours. recording particular motifs and places in the changing seasons. Studies were enlarged on joined canvases in compositions up to 32' wide, designed to immerse the viewer in an intense experience of the landscape. The monograph reviews the...

A review of Lucian Freud Portraits exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery London from February to May 2012.It considers some fifty portraits covering the span of the artist's working life, their qualities of personal perception and as works of art within the canons of Western classical tradition.

A review of 'She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea', and exhibition by Tracey Emin at the Turner Contemporary Gallery Margate. May to September 2912.Explores the drawings, prints and neon sculptures, with an assessment of the artidt's development.

Considers an exhibition at Tate Modern, June to October, of the great Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944), exploring his paintings and graphic work, with their relation to examples of his photography

London has been having symbolically enough in 2014 a sustained examination of not only art historically northern Europe in general with the National Gallery having looked at the northern renaissance but perhaps far more pertinently contemporary German art of the post war period, enhanced by an original examination of German history at the British Museum. The medium of painting is the prism, with significant showings of Anselm Kiefer, a West German b 1945, and Gerhard Richter b 1932, and Sigmar Polke, 1941-2010, both originally East Germans, who once showed together, and with others invented...

A collection of essays, articles and reviews of photography by Marina Vaizey published in the past decade.Photography is the one art form in which we all participate.We all take photographs, are photographed, and look at photographs. A striking phenomenon of the post war period, the last half century or so, has been the proliferation of collections of photography in museums and galleries of all kinds, the integration of photography with the other fine arts, and the complementary increase of scholarship, publications and the attention of universities. Thus the expansion of photography in the...