Making It Up: Photographic Fictions Victoria and Albert Museum The world’s greatest museum of art and design Opening times 10.00 to 17.45 daily 10.00 to 22.00 Fridays 3 May 2013 – 12 January 2014 Room 38A Free admission Photography is widely associated with truthfulness yet it has also been employed throughout its history as a means of telling stories and evoking the imaginary. This display includes photographs
MOMA has acquired two works for their collection; ‘After the Party’, from the series ‘Life and Death in Hackney’ (2000) from my show at the White Cube Gallery, London. and ‘The Art of Squatting’, from the series ‘Persons Unknown’ (1997) from my Royal College of Art degree show. Be great to see them on the wall, I can pretend to be Woody Allen in ‘Manhattan’
‘Murder-Two Men Wanted’, is the only photograph in the collection of the National Gallery, London. It is based on Piero di Cosimo’s painting ‘A Satyr Mourning over a Nymph’ (1495) which is also in the National Gallery’s collection. The title and inspiration for the photograph came from the headline of a Hackney Gazette article. The series of tableaux photographs ‘Living in He
‘The Ghetto’ 3D Photographic Model, Tom Hunter, 1994 http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/postcodes/places/E8.html The photographic model ‘The Ghetto’ was created in 1994 by Tom Hunter when he lived in a squatted community in Hackney. The title for the series comes from the local paper the Hackney Gazette, which printed an article about his community. One part of the ‘The Ghetto’ article describes the neigh
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present 31 October 2012 – 20 January 2013 National Gallery Sainsbury Wing Daily 10am – 6pm (last admission 5.15pm) Fridays 10am – 9pm (last admission 8.15pm) (Closed 24, 25, 26 December 2012 and 1 January 2013) Today’s photography is part of our own cultural moment, but it also arises from artistic traditions that long predate it. ‘Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present’ is