Photography: New Documentary Forms
01 May 2011 - 23 March 2012
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| © Mitch Epstein
Biloxi, Mississippi 2005
Courtesy of Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York |
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PHOTOGRAPHY: NEW DOCUMENTARY FORMS
1 May 2011 – 31 March 2012
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.
www.tate.org.uk/modern
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