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From the gallery director, Harry Hardie's musings on exhibitions, books and excitements in the world of documentary based photography.

Current Exhibition at HOST Gallery
Aaron Schuman, Once Upon a Time in the West
14 April – 9 May

Once Upon a Time in the West was photographed on the eroding sets and locations of Sergio Leone’s celebrated 1960’s "spaghetti Westerns", deep in the Almerian deserts of southern Spain.

For several years Schuman has pursued work concerned with the propagation of American myths abroad. He recently became fascinated by the notion that a fundamental American archetype – the Wild West, and its associations with freedom, independence, rebelliousness, brutality, morality, honour and so on – had been transposed by an Italian film director onto the landscape of Franco’s Spain, and subsequently came to define this "quintessentially American" genre in itself.

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1 Honduras Street
London  EC1Y 0TH
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hostgallery.co.uk

Opening times:
10am-6pm, Mon-Fri
11am-4pm, Sat
Nearest train/bus:
Old Street, Barbican / 243, 55

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From the previous exhibition:
Stil Human, a short film by Abbie Traylor-Smith and Anna Stevens
View now (20MB Quicktime format, runtime 6'30"