Thursday, August 14, 2008

Tate Modern Presents: Street & Studio - An Urban History of

Street & Studio is a magnificent exhibition of international photography. It presents a fascinating history of photographic portraiture taken on the street or in the photographer studio, looking at the differences between these two key locations in which photographers work.

Street & Studio brings out the contrast between the photos taken in the carefully orchestrated studio, and images captured in the changing and uncontrollable street, whilst highlighting the crossovers between the genres and their influence on each other.

Over 350 striking works are gathered in this stylish exhibition, by some of the world most famous and important photographers including Francis Al, Diane Arbus, Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Rineke Dijkstra, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Robert Mapplethorpe, Irving Penn, Norman Parkinson, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Malick Sidib, Paul Strand, James Van der Zee, Juergen Teller and Wolfgang Tillmans.


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