Brassaï - The Soul of Paris (Hayward Gallery)
Forget the second-rate drawings and sculptures I never even knew he made and go straight for his photos of 1930s Paris. Outdoors, Brassaï makes great use of street lighting and indoors, he uses mirrors for "split views". His night time pictures seem perfect settings for "noir" films: they are so dense and atmospheric, full of shadows. You can almost hear furtive footsteps, see the temporary glow created by lighting a cigarette, a figure detaching itself from a darkened corner. Marvellous.

Tacita Dean - Recent films and other works (Tate Gallery)
An artist fascinated by disused machinery, the sea, lighthouses and shipwrecks. From the wave machine in Holland through to the sound mirrors near Dungeness, to Donald Crowhurst's abandoned trimaran at Cayman Brac, via the 1999 total eclipse of the sun in Cornwall and Shakespeare's The Tempest. Eerie sounds, images of vastness and silence. Also, we see a day unfolding at Berlin's revolving restaurant inside the TV tower in Alexanderplatz.

Paul Howard Nethercott - Dangerous Tides, Unstable Cliffs (Global Café)
After twelve years spent travelling everywhere between the Arctic Circle and the banks of the Orinoco as a location finder, Paul has returned to the eroding coastlines of England and catalogued every single town in the South East for his on-line service "locationlibraries.com". Yes, I have even found my home town: Lat 51-32-15(N); Lon 000-40-26(E). The image database is huge, easy to navigate and well structured. The spelling of the captions would do with some improving, though.

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