Out of Africa and into Messums: UK gallery launches new photography department with vintage prints of Karen Blixen's life in Kenya
Untitled (Karen Blixen with her friend Erik von Otter), photographed by Thomas Dinesen between 1921 and 1925 Image: courtesy of Messums Messums, the UK gallery known for 20th-century and contemporary British art, has launched a new photography department with an inaugural London exhibition straight out of Africa. And a rare archive of 15 photographs of Karen Blixen, the Danish author whose memoir of life in pre-war Kenya became an Oscar-winning film, provides historically sensitive material for the gallery’s new venture. The vintage prints, from the early 1920s, were mo...
Source: theartnewspaper.com