We are pleased to announce our summer exhibition, Kasmin’s Camera, presenting the photographic archives of British art dealer and collector John Kasmin. The photographs record an international community of artists, dealers and critics including Gillian Ayres, Anthony Caro, Leo Castelli, Helen Frankenthaler, Clement Greenberg, David Hockney, Howard Hodgkin, Jules Olitski, Barnett Newman, Kenneth Noland, Frank Stella and others. Also included are images of friends, such as Celia Birtwell, Ossie Clark and the explorer and writer Bruce Chatwin, with whom Kasmin travelled widely.
Many of Kasmin's photographs document his long-standing collaboration and friendship with David Hockney. For over a decade, the two men's careers were closely intertwined. Kasmin’s Camera shows his role as both a witness to art and a maker, communicating that for all the seriousness of the art world there was also a great sense of intimacy, friendship and frivolity.
A coinciding publication, Kasmin’s Camera will be published by Lyndsey Ingram and A/B Publications. The book will feature essays by American curator and writer Judith Goldman and Chris Stephens, Director of the Holburne Museum in Bath and curator of Tate Britain’s exhibition of David Hockney in 2017.
