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Jean Shrimpton
1962

The National Portrait Gallery site has posted about my book "Work and Performance".
Follow the link to visit:
http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/2011/sandra-lousada-work-and-performance.php

National Portrait Gallery - Photograph of the Month

Charles Darwent from the Sunday Independent said the following about me,

Sunday Independent: "The photographer Sandra Lousada was just out of her teens in 1961. Her father, a patron of the Tate, told her to go and shoot the show. The results, hung next to Light Red Over Black, evoke a time in English art now scarcely imaginable. Like John Hoyland, visitors to the Whitechapel seem stunned by the images in front of them – uncanny, soft-edged beauties like nothing they have seen before. 

The Telegraph's Judith Flanders said this about me, 

The photographer Sandra Lousada spent hours viewing the viewers, and the results, which take up a wall of the current show, are extraordinary: a world of little old ladies (probably in their fifties, but who have visibly given themselves up to age) wearing hats, mingling with Beat students in drainpipe trousers and chunky jumpers. But the real interest is in how they engage with the Rothkos.

Laura Cumming said something very nice about the exhibition 

The Observer: "These may sound like technical footnotes but when you look at Sandra Lousada's terrific installation shots the total effect becomes apparent. Visitors are lost in the paintings. Men in sharp suits and girls in stilettos stand, lean, sit and even lie back among the works in attitudes of palpable reverie. Stance itself becomes eloquent."

The Whitechapel Gallery are using some pictures that I took of the Rothko Exhibition in 1961 for their Rothko in Britain show in the Archive gallery from September 10th 2011.

The National Portrait Gallery has bought a selection of Sandra Lousada's images for their permanent collection. Some of them will be on show from November 29th 2011.

An Exhibition of Photographs by:
Caroline Forbes - Jean-Pierre Ferraroli - Paul Harris - Sandra Lousada

Private Views: Monday 9th May 2011 and Wednesday 18th May 2011

Exhibition runs Tuesday 10th May – Saturday 4th June 2011

This inspiring comparative exhibition documents the experience of women from different perspectives and contrasting situations. Images are drawn together from the war zones and refugee camps of Africa and Central America, the fashion pages of Vogue and Harpers; from remote rural communities and familiar faces in our immediate world. Each portrays an individual: serene, beautiful, adaptable in a changing and unpredictable world.

Sandra Lousada
Jewelled Eyes, Queen Magazine