Photography
dal 30/4/2011 al 30/3/2012
Segnalato da
30/4/2011
Photography
Tate Modern, London
New Documentary Forms. This new five-room display explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Consisting entirely of new acquisitions to Tate's collection, it includes recent work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.
This new five-room display explores the ways in which five contemporary artists have used the camera to explore, extend and question the power of photography as a documentary medium. Consisting entirely of new acquisitions to Tate’s collection, it includes recent work by Luc Delahaye, Mitch Epstein, Guy Tillim and Akram Zaatari, as well as two important earlier works by Boris Mikhailov.
Between them they cover subjects as diverse as the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, studio photography in Beirut, elections in the Congo, everyday life in pre- and post-Soviet Ukraine, and power production in the United States. Each room concerns one discrete project, in which the artist calls into question the relationship between the documentary value of photography and the museum as its proper context.
Image: Mitch Epstein, Biloxi, Mississippi , 2005
© Mitch Epstein. Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York
For further information contact Daisy Mallabar/Bomi Odufunade, Tate Press Office, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG Call 020 7887 8731/4942, Email pressoffice@tate.org.uk
Tate Modern
Bankside, London
Exhibition Hours
Sunday to Thursday, 10.00–18.00. Friday and Saturday, 10.00–22.00. Last admission into exhibitions 17.15 (Friday and Saturday 21.15).
Free Entry