Taking you behind the lens during a decade of significant social and political change, discover the remarkable transformation of British photography in the 1980s, and its impact on art across the world.
This book traces critical developments in photographic art in the UK, made by a diverse range of photographers in and around the Thatcher era (1976-1993). Rather than presenting a comprehensive history, the publication showcases more than 70 lens-based artists, and reveal numerous small histories, known
Une monographie de l'artiste et caricaturiste anglais John Heartfield. Né à Berlin en 1891, il est perçu, avec Georges Grosz, comme l'un des pères du photomontage. Considéré par Aragon comme le « prototype de l'artiste antifasciste », il consacra une grande partie de sa vie à détourner les affiches de propagande nazie qu'il publia dans « Arbeiter Illustrierte Zeitung », magazine antifasciste allemand des années 1930.
Over a career spanning more than four decades, Sunil Gupta has maintained a visionary approach to photography, producing bodies of work that are pioneering in their social and political commentary. The artist's diasporic experience of multiple cultures informs a practice dedicated to themes of race, migration and queer identity - his own lived experience a point of departure for photographic projects, born from a desire to see himself and others like him represented in art history.
Working in India, the United States, and the UK, his best-known works include the Exiles series (1986-7), Lovers: Ten Years On (1984-6), the series From Here to Eternity (1999), Songs of Deliverance (2022). His newspaper articles, speeches and essays show his crucial role at the centre of grassroots queer and postcolonial organising throughout his career. He continues to forge his own cultural history, fusing the public and the personal through photographs that highlight those marginalised in society.
The Tate Photography series is a celebration of international and British photography in the Tate collection and an introduction to some of the most significant photographers at work today. Each book focuses on an individual photographer and features a specially selected sequence of photographs, an introduction by a Tate curator, and a conversation with the photographer.
The theme for Series Three is Queer and Visible, bringing together four artists who use photography to unfold valuable insights into queer life. Each artist uniquely reflects upon societal constructs of sexuality and race and responds to the experience of living in a predominantly white and heteronormative Western society. Desire, identity and joy are artfully explored, upturning assumptions about blackness, race and queerness.
Ajamu X is a British artist, curator, archivist and activist. He is best known for his fine art photography which explores same-sex desire, and the Black male body, and his work as an archivist and activist to document the lives and experiences of Black LGBTQ people in the United Kingdom.
The Tate Photography series is a celebration of international and British photography in the Tate collection and an introduction to some of the most significant photographers at work today. Each book focuses on an individual photographer and features a specially selected sequence of photographs, an introduction by a Tate curator, and a conversation with the photographer.
The theme for Series Three is Queer and Visible, bringing together four artists who use photography to unfold valuable insights into queer life. Each artist uniquely reflects upon societal constructs of sexuality and race and responds to the experience of living in a predominantly white and heteronormative Western society. Desire, identity and joy are artfully explored, upturning assumptions about blackness, race and queerness.
Lyle Ashton Harris is an American artist who has cultivated a diverse artistic practice ranging from photographic media, collage, installation art and performance art.
Harris uses his works to comment on societal constructs of sexuality and race, while exploring his own identity as a queer, Black man.
The Tate Photography series is a celebration of international and British photography in the Tate collection and an introduction to some of the most significant photographers at work today. Each book focuses on an individual photographer and features a specially selected sequence of photographs, an introduction by a Tate curator, and a conversation with the photographer.
The theme for Series Three is Queer and Visible, bringing together four artists who use photography to unfold valuable insights into queer life. Each artist uniquely reflects upon societal constructs of sexuality and race and responds to the experience of living in a predominantly white and heteronormative Western society. Desire, identity and joy are artfully explored, upturning assumptions about blackness, race and queerness.
American photographer Laura Aguilar (1959-2018) was born with auditory dyslexia, and was mostly self-taught. She used visual art to bring forth marginalised identities, especially within the LA Queer scene and Latinx communities, capturing the largely invisible identities of large bodied, queer, working-class, brown people in the form of portraits. Often using her naked body as a subject, she used photography to empower herself and her inner struggles to reclaim her own identity.
Aguilar has become an essential figure in Chicano art history and is often regarded as an early 'pioneer of intersectional feminism' for her outright and uncensored work. Some of her best-known works are Three Eagles Flying, The Plush Pony Series, and Nature Self Portraits.
The Tate Photography series is a celebration of international and British photography in the Tate collection and an introduction to some of the most significant photographers at work today. Each book focuses on an individual photographer and features a specially selected sequence of photographs, an introduction by a Tate curator, and a conversation with the photographer.
The theme for Series Three is Queer and Visible, bringing together four artists who use photography to unfold valuable insights into queer life. Each artist uniquely reflects upon societal constructs of sexuality and race and responds to the experience of living in a predominantly white and heteronormative Western society. Desire, identity and joy are artfully explored, upturning assumptions about blackness, race and queerness.
Liz Johnson Artur is a Ghanaian-Russian photographer and photojournalist based in London. For over three decades, her work has documented the lives of black people from across the African Diaspora. She calls this ongoing project the Black Balloon Archive, alluding to a 1970 song lyric by Syl Johnson that describes a black balloon 'dancing' in the sky, which is how Johnson Artur imagines her own movement when taking photographs.
This publication showcases Time don't run here, a series of photographs of the Black Lives Matter protests taken in the summer of 2020 in London.
The purpose of the new Tate Photography series is to establish a truly international representation of photography now, to broaden access to remarkable photographers, and to explore the medium's unique ability to capture life and experience in the world today.
With the direct involvement of living photographers in collaboration with photography curators, these books will showcase the best and most notable images taken across the globe, from city streets to seashores, moving across landscapes and through subcultures, in a visual travelogue of our world.
From 2022, Tate will release four books each year, connected by a single theme. By showing varied and international approaches to a subject, the series seeks to create a deeper understanding of what photography can do while also enhancing our appreciation of the lives of others.
The first four volumes The first year's theme is community and solidarity. A Ghanaian-Russian photographer joins Black Lives Matter street protests in London, an artist-activist in New Delhi chronicles women's emancipatory struggles, a South-African's camera locates queer lives in rural townships, while a Finnish photographer captures the North-East of England as perhaps only an emigre with a discerning eye can.
In all these environments, each imbued with unique struggles and dangers, a commonality of human character and strength inspired by community and solidarity is portrayed, permitting glimpses of joy and hope.
Each book contains a new conversation between curator and photographer and is prefaced with a short introduction.
Depuis plus de cinq décennies, l'artiste brésilienne d'origine suisse Claudia Andujar consacre sa vie à photographier et à protéger les Yanomami d'Amazonie, l'un des plus grands groupes indigènes du Brésil. Tentant de traduire visuellement leur culture chamanique, elle expérimente diverses techniques photographiques pour créer des distorsions visuelles, des jeux de lumière et des couleurs saturées. La confiance qu'Andujar a gagnée au fil des années est si forte que les Yanomami, qui détruisent les objets personnels appartenant à une personne lorsqu'elle meurt - y compris des photographies - ont fait une exception afin de rendre son travail possible. Aujourd'hui âgée de 90 ans, elle continue de les soutenir dans leur lutte pour la survie.
Les photographies de Richard Mosse capturent la beauté et l'horreur de la guerre et de la destruction. Né en Irlande et basé à New York, il a travaillé dans de nombreux pays et a passé de nombreuses années en Amazonie, rendant visible à travers ses clichés la tragédie qui s'y déroule. Présentant une sélection d'images de ses séries Tristes Tropiques et Broken Specter, ce livre démontre la capacité de la photographie à documenter des tragédies propres à des lieux spécifiques et à les communiquer au monde. À la fois déchirantes et d'une beauté saisissante, les images de Mosse laissent des traces permanentes de part leur fort impact.
Created to accompany one of the most exciting exhibitions of 2020, this stunning paperback catalogue presents the full breadth of Muholi's photographic and activist practice.
Richly illustrated, it includes images from the key series Muholi has produced over the past twenty years, as well as never-before-published and recent works. The exhibition book also features six newly commissioned essays exploring their work, as well as a full glossary and chronology.
Born in South Africa, Zanele Muholi came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that sought to envision black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives beyond deviance or victimhood. Muholi's work challenges hetero-patriarchal ideologies and representations, presenting the participants in their photographs as confident and beautiful individuals bravely existing in the face of prejudice, intolerance and, frequently, violence. While Muholi's intimate photographs of others launched their international career, their intense self-portraits solidified it.
Sarah Allen is Assistant Curator at Tate Modern.
Yasufumi Nakamori is Senior Curator, International Art at Tate Modern.
The purpose of the new Tate Photography series is to establish a truly international representation of photography now, to broaden access to remarkable photographers, and to explore the medium's unique ability to capture life and experience in the world today.
With the direct involvement of living photographers in collaboration with photography curators, these books will showcase the best and most notable images taken across the globe, from city streets to seashores, moving across landscapes and through subcultures, in a visual travelogue of our world.
From 2022, Tate will release four books each year, connected by a single theme. By showing varied and international approaches to a subject, the series seeks to create a deeper understanding of what photography can do while also enhancing our appreciation of the lives of others.
The first four volumes The first year's theme is community and solidarity. A Ghanaian-Russian photographer joins Black Lives Matter street protests in London, an artist-activist in New Delhi chronicles women's emancipatory struggles, a South-African's camera locates queer lives in rural townships, while a Finnish photographer captures the North-East of England as perhaps only an emigre with a discerning eye can.
In all these environments, each imbued with unique struggles and dangers, a commonality of human character and strength inspired by community and solidarity is portrayed, permitting glimpses of joy and hope.
Each book contains a new conversation between curator and photographer and is prefaced with a short introduction.
Born in Finland, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen studied in London, founding the Amber Film & Photography Collective with her fellow students, and then moved to North East England in the 1960s. She has been based in Newcastle ever since, deeply rooted in the local community.
Focusing on two of her photographic series - Byker (1969-83) and Writing in the Sand (1978-98) - this book captures a working class neighbourhood and reveals the devastating impact that the redevelopment of Newcastle's East End had on the community, but also the moments of joy of the group outings to the beach.
Konttinen's love for this part of the world is at the heart of these moving but never sentimental pictures. Her photographs and Amber's films were inscribed in the British section of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register in 2011.
Chris Killip (1946-2020) a été l'un des photographes britanniques les plus influents de sa génération. Sa curiosité et son empathie l'ont attiré vers des groupes et des lieux marginaux qui ont fait l'objet de nombreuses séries photographiques. Il est surtout connu pour ses images en noir et blanc, notamment dans le nord-est de l'Angleterre dans les années 1970 et 1980. Ce volume se concentre sur les célèbres séries Seacoal et Skinningrove, documentant les communautés vivant dans le paysage industriel en déclin de la région et où, selon ses propres mots, « le Moyen Âge et le XXe siècle se sont entrelacés ».
Lieko Shiga réalise des portraits intimes, situés au milieu de paysages et d'intérieurs mystiques, intégrant ses expériences personnelles avec la mythologie créant des images surréalistes et fantastiques. Sans recourir à la retouche numérique, elle évoque la zone crépusculaire entre rêve et réalité. Ce volume se concentre sur sa série Rasen Kaigan (Spiral Shore) réalisée entre 2008 et 2012 avec des photographies du village de Kitakama au Japon avant et après le tsunami dévastateur de 2011, capturant l'esprit et l'histoire du lieu et de ses habitants. Son travail a fait l'objet d'acquisitions par de nombreux musées internationaux. En 2012, elle remporte le prix Higashikawa pour les nouveaux artistes et en 2021 elle reçoit le Tokyo Contemporary Art Award.
Since the invention of photography in the nineteenth century, Africa has been defined largely by Western images of its cultures and traditions. From the colonial carte de visite and ethnographic archive to the rise of studio portraiture and social documents of racial surveillance, the fraught relationship between Africa and the photographic lens has become inseparable from the discourses of post-colonialism.
Challenging these historical images of exoticism and otherness, this book illustrates how artists have used photography and video art to reimagine history and expand our understanding of contemporary realities.
Bringing together a diverse range of artists and thinkers to present perspectives on issues such as spirituality, urbanism and climate change, this book reveals the many ways images travel across time and geography, and how artists are redefining perceptions of the world we inhabit.
La Tate Britain consacre une grande exposition à Don McCullin du 26 février au 6 mai 2019. Cette rétrospective retrace toute la carrière du grand photoreporter britannique, des quartiers populaires de Londres où il vécut dans sa jeunesse aux premières images de conflits armés dans le monde dans les années 60. Ce catalogue monographique complet reprend donc 250 photos où l'on retrouve toutes les séries qui ont changé l'histoire du photoreportage, entre guerre du Vietnam, Berlin divisé, Inde, Biafra et Congo, Irlande du Nord, épidémie du Sida, mais aussi les natures mortes et paysages anglais plus tardifs.
Dans le cadre du centenaire de la première guerre mondiale, la Tate Modern présente une exposition de photographie sur la guerre et son héritage. Le catalogue reproduit des clichés de nombreux conflits de ces 150 dernières années - de la guerre de Crimée à celle de Syrie et d'Angola - pris pendant et après les événements. Sophie Ristelhueber, Jo Ractliffe, Don McCullin, Paul Virilio, Nick Waplington, Stephen Shore, Luc Delahaye et An-My Lê sont parmi les photographes exposés.
