Radical Eye, Tate Modern, Exhibition, Prep

1. THE RADICAL EYE: MODERNIST PHOTOGRAPHY
FROM THE SIR ELTON JOHN COLLECTION

2. MODERNISM

3. Photo Secession
• The photography ‘movement’
begins in New York
• 1903- ‘Camera Work’ an art /
photography journal, is
founded in the U.S.
• 1905- Steiglitz opens ‘Little
Galleries of the Photo-
Secession’ in New York.
Alvin Langdon Coburn:
‘Regent's Canal, London’, 1904

4. Alvin Langdon Coburn
‘The Octopus’, 1912

5. The importance of Alfred Stieglitz.
‘The Steerage’, 1907

6. Group f / 64
Edward Weston
‘Shell’
1927

7. Edward Weston
‘Pepper’, 1930
Edward Weston
‘Nude’, 1936

8. Imogen Cunningham
‘Two Callas’
1929

9. Dada - begins 1916
Marcel Duchamp
‘Fountain’ 1917
Paul Outerbridge
‘Ide Collar’ 1922

10. Surrealism
• Ostranie: Image made
strange.
• There’s a difference between
the ‘everyday’ world and the
expected convention of
photographic representation.
Giorgio de Chirico,
‘The Disquieting Muses’, 1916

11. Herbert Bayer
‘Lonely Metropolitan’, 1932
Man Ray
‘Violin d’Ingres’, 1924

12. Salvador Dali
‘Un chien andalou’, 1929

13. DOCUMENTARY

14. Margaret Bourke-White
Sharecropper’s Home. 1937
Farm Security Association.
Roy Stryker

15. Dorothea Lange.
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother. 1936

17. “When Dorothea took that picture,
that was the ultimate. She never
surpassed it. To me it was the
picture of Farm Security. She has
all the suffering of mankind in her,
but all the perseverance too. A
restraint and a strange courage.”
Roy Stryker

19. Walker Evans
‘Kitchen Wall, Alabama’, 1936

20. Walker Evans
‘Allie Mae Burroughs’, 1936.
Walker Evans
‘Washing and Dining Area of
Burroughs's Home’,1936

21. Walker Evans
‘Graveyard, Houses and Steel Mill, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 1935
Paintings by Edward Hopper