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Cornerhouse
Cornerhouse was a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts, located next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, which was active from 1985–2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a bookshop, a bar and a café bar. Cornerhouse was operated by Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd, a registered charity. The buildings Cornerhouse occupied two buildings. The main building, 70 Oxford Street, was built for John Shaw in the early 1900s and was a furniture store run by the family until it closed in 1985. The building on the other side of the approach to Oxford Road station was designed by Peter Cummings, completed in 1934 and opened as a cinema, Tatler News Theatre, in May 1935. The cinema had numerous name changes (Essoldo, Tatler Classic, Tatler Cinema Club) before closing in 1981. History Cornerhouse was conceived by the Greater Manchester Visual Arts Trust, chaired by Sir Bob Scott. It opened with the support of the then Greate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornerhouse Cinema In Manchester (7428498866)
Cornerhouse was a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts, located next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, which was active from 1985–2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a bookshop, a bar and a café bar. Cornerhouse was operated by Greater Manchester Arts Centre Ltd, a registered charity. The buildings Cornerhouse occupied two buildings. The main building, 70 Oxford Street, was built for John Shaw in the early 1900s and was a furniture store run by the family until it closed in 1985. The building on the other side of the approach to Oxford Road station was designed by Peter Cummings, completed in 1934 and opened as a cinema, Tatler News Theatre, in May 1935. The cinema had numerous name changes (Essoldo, Tatler Classic, Tatler Cinema Club) before closing in 1981. History Cornerhouse was conceived by the Greater Manchester Visual Arts Trust, chaired by Sir Bob Scott. It opened with the support of the then Great ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilmslow Road
Wilmslow Road is a major road in Manchester, England, running from Parrs Wood northwards to Rusholme. There it becomes Oxford Road and the name changes again to Oxford Street when it crosses the River Medlock and reaches the city centre. The road runs through the centres of Didsbury, Withington and Fallowfield, including the major student residential campus of Owens Park, to Rusholme. Oxford Road passes through the University of Manchester campus and the All Saints campus of the Manchester Metropolitan University. Several hospitals including the Christie Hospital and Manchester Royal Infirmary have been built along the road. It also features several parks and gardens such as Fletcher Moss Gardens, Platt Fields and Whitworth Park. The road is part of a major bus corridor with bus movements of over one a minute at peak times and is a key centre for business, culture and higher education. Route Wilmslow Road, Oxford Road and Oxford Street are part of an 18th-century route ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HOME (Manchester)
HOME is an arts centre in Manchester, a central part of the city’s artistic ecology, and an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. Since opening in 2015, HOME has built a reputation for high-quality, adventurous cultural programming and for supporting emerging and mid-career talent regionally and nationally. With five cinemas, two theatres and 500m2 gallery space, it is one of the few arts organisations to commission, produce and present work across film, theatre and visual art. HOME is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, registered as "Greater Manchester Arts Centre Limited" with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. In 2019 HOME was one of the most popular attractions in Manchester with c.900k visits, and Lonely Planet voted it one of the top 500 experiences in the UK (“one of Britain’s best arts centres”). In 2021 HOME was named in the top 10 of TimeOut's 50 Best Cinemas in the UK and Ireland. HOME welcomes over 650,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Cummings (architect)
Peter Cummings FRIBA FMSA (1879 – 8 June 1957) was a British architect of Russian origin. He was a leading Art Deco architect in Manchester, England. Cummings was born Peter Caminesky in Minsk. Russia. He moved to Cheetham Hill, Manchester, northern England, in the 1880 with his parents, due to persecution. His father was a rabbi. He work as an architectural assistant in his teenage years. Cummings was elected Associate of the RIBA in 1909. He anglicised his name and became naturalised in 1928. Cummings was the architect of the Cornerhouse (originally Tatler) cinema (1934) and the Manchester Apollo theatre (1937–1938) in Manchester. The Appleby Lodge apartment blocks on Wilmslow Road, Rusholme, were designed by Gunton & Gunton with Peter Cummings and built during 1936–1939. From 1939, Peter Cummings lived at Appleby Lodge with his new wife Esther. The blocks were Grade II listed in 2003. He also designed the Manchester Reform Synagogue with Eric Levy (1952, opened in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Waplington
Nick Waplington (born 1965) is a British artist and photographer. Many books of Waplington's work have been published, both self-published and through Aperture, Cornerhouse, Mack, Phaidon, and Trolley. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Tate Britain and The Photographers' Gallery in London, at Philadelphia Museum of Art in the USA, and at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford, UK; and in group exhibitions at Venice Biennale, Italy and Brooklyn Museum, New York City. In 1993 he was awarded an Infinity Award for Young Photographer by the International Center of Photography. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Victoria and Albert Museum and Government Art Collection in London, National Gallery of Australia, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Royal Library, Denmark. Life and work Waplington was born in Aden, Yemen. He traveled extensively during his childhood as his father worke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dewi Lewis
Dewi Lewis (born 10 March 1951) is a Welsh publisher and curator of photography. Career In 1975, Lewis was the founding director of the Bury Metropolitan Arts Association which operates the Met. Lewis also founded and was the first director of Cornerhouse, an arts centre in Manchester, England. Lewis was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 2004 and was awarded the Society’s inaugural RPS Award for Outstanding Service to Photography in 2009. In 2012, the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation presented him with an award for Outstanding Contribution to Photography Publishing. Lewis has acted as a jury member for several major competitions and as a portfolio reviewer at international photography events including Fotofest and Review Santa Fe (both USA), Lodz Festival (Poland) and PHotoEspaña (Spain). He was a ‘Master’ for the 2009, 2010 and 2011 World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclasses. Along with his own book, ''Publishing Photography'' (1992), he writes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The two cities and the surrounding towns form one of the United Kingdom's most populous conurbations, the Greater Manchester Built-up Area, which has a population of 2.87 million. The history of Manchester began with the civilian settlement associated with the Roman fort ('' castra'') of ''Mamucium'' or ''Mancunium'', established in about AD 79 on a sandstone bluff near the confluence of the rivers Medlock and Irwell. Historically part of Lancashire, areas of Cheshire south of the River Mersey were incorporated into Manchester in the 20th century, including Wythenshawe in 1931. Throughout the Middle Ages Manchester remained a manorial township, but began to expand "at an astonishing rate" around the turn of the 19th century. Manchest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Gilden
Bruce Gilden (born 1946) is an American street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun. He has had various books of his work published, has received the European Publishers Award for Photography and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Gilden has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1998. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. Life and work Gilden was born in Brooklyn, New York. While studying sociology at Penn State, he saw Michelangelo Antonioni's film ''Blowup'' in 1968. Influenced by the film, he purchased his first camera and began taking night classes in photography at the School of Visual Arts of New York. Fascinated with people on the street and the idea of visual spontaneity, Gilden turned to a career in photography. His work is characterized by his use of flash photography. He has worked in black and white most of his life, but he began shooting in color and digital when he was introduced to the Leica S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Steele-Perkins
Christopher Horace Steele-Perkins (born 28 July 1947) is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos, best known for his depictions of Africa, Afghanistan, England, Northern Ireland, and Japan. Life and career Steele-Perkins was born in Rangoon, Burma, in 1947 to a British father and a Burmese mother; but his father left his mother and took the boy to England at the age of two. He grew up in Burnham-on-Sea. He went to Christ's Hospital and for one year studied chemistry at the University of York before leaving for a stay in Canada. Returning to Britain, he joined the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where he served as photographer and picture editor for a student magazine. After graduating in psychology in 1970 he started to work as a freelance photographer, specializing in the theatre, while he also lectured in psychology. By 1971, Steele-Perkins had moved to London and become a full-time photographer, with particular interest in urban issues, including poverty. He we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Library Theatre
Manchester Central Library is the headquarters of the city's library and information service in Manchester, England. Facing St Peter's Square, it was designed by E. Vincent Harris and constructed between 1930 and 1934. The form of the building, a columned portico attached to a rotunda domed structure, is loosely derived from the Pantheon, Rome. At its opening, one critic wrote, "This is the sort of thing which persuades one to believe in the perennial applicability of the Classical canon". The library building is grade II* listed. A four-year project to renovate and refurbish the library commenced in 2010. Central Library re-opened on 22 March 2014. History Background Manchester was the first local authority to provide a public lending and reference library after the passing of the Public Libraries Act 1850. The Manchester Free Library opened at Campfield in September 1852 at a ceremony attended by Charles Dickens. When the Campfield premises were declared to be unsafe in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Met (arts Centre)
The Met (popularly known as Bury Met) is a performing arts venue in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. It consists of two theatre spaces (Derby Hall and The Box), as well as the Edwin Street recording studio. There is also a café bar that provides refreshments. The centre is operated by Bury Metropolitan Arts Association, a registered charity,. Location The Met is situated in the Derby Hall, a large Victorian classical building on Market Street in the centre of Bury. Programme The Met houses a busy programme of events which includes theatre shows, many varieties of music, and stand up comedy. History Bury Metropolitan Arts Association was founded in 1975. The association originally operated out of a disused bank building at 2 The Rock, promoting events in civic halls and parish churches. It moved into the Derby Hall in 1979. The organisation's founding Director was Dewi Lewis, who went on to found Manchester's Cornerhouse Cornerhouse was a centre for cinema and the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach (born 1949) is an American photographer. He has photographed the deserts of the American West, and pursued projects that document the changes in the natural environment that have been wrought by various man-made factors such as urban sprawl, tourism, industrialization, floods, fires, petrochemical manufacturing, and the testing of explosives and nuclear weapons by the military. Curator Anne Wilkes Tucker writes that Misrach's practice has been "driven yissues of aesthetics, politics, ecology, and sociology."Tucker, Anne Wilkes & Rebecca Solnit. ''Crimes and Splendors: the Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach''. Bulfinch / Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1996. In a 2011 interview, Misrach noted: "My career, in a way, has been about navigating these two extremes - the political and the aesthetic."Brown, PeteInterview with Richard Misrach.Spot magazine, 2011. Describing his philosophy, Tracey Taylor of ''The New York Times'' writes that " israch'simages are for the his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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