TATE'S CURRENT exhibition is exploring just that through works of international artists from all periods of portrait photography. It is the accidental against the staged - and both settings tell something different about the times the photos were taken.
Exhibited artists include: Francis Alÿs, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rineke Dijkstra, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Norman Parkinson, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidibé, Paul Strand, James Van der Zee, Juergen Teller and Wolfgang Tillmans.
Several workshops concerning the theory and photographic practice accompany the show and are certainly noteworthy - for example a four-part course with philosopher Nigel Warburton.
London, UK
Street & Studio, An Urban History of Photography
22 May – 31 August 2008
Tate Modern
www.tate.org.uk
Juergen Teller, Eva Bodenhoff, 20th October 1998 (from the series Go Sees) 1998 Courtesy of Juergen Teller and Lehmann Maupin Gallery (C) Juergen Teller
