Everything Was Moving
13 September 2012 - 13 January 2013
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| © Raghubir Singh
Pilgrim and Ambassador Car, Prayag, Uttar Pradesh, 1977
© 2012 Succession Raghubir Singh |
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EVERYTHING WAS MOVING:
Photography from the 60s and 70s
13 September 2012 - 13 January 2013
This major photography exhibition surveys the medium from an
international perspective, and includes renowned photographers from
across the globe, all working during two of the most memorable decades
of the 20th century. Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and
70s brings together over 400 works, some rarely seen, others recently
discovered and many shown in the UK for the first time.
It features 12 key figures including Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston,
David Goldblatt, Graciela Iturbide, Boris Mikhailov, Sigmar Polke,
Malick Sidibé, Shomei Tomatsu, and Li Zhensheng as well as important
innovators whose lives were cut tragically short such as Ernest Cole,
Raghubir Singh and Larry Burrows.
The world changed dramatically in the 1960s and 1970s. From the Cultural
Revolution to the Cold War; from America’s colonialist misadventure in
Vietnam to the indelible values of the civil rights movement; this was
the defining period of the modern age. It also coincided with a golden
age in photography: the moment when the medium flowered as a modern art
form.
Everything Was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s presents some of
the most inspiring voices in 20th century photography, in order to
reflect on the world then – and now.
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