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Graciela Iturbide, Our Lady of the
Iguanas, Juchitan,
Mexico, 1979 (a Zapotec
woman wearing live iguanas)
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The exhibition features the work of 12 photographers working in the period: Larry Burrows, Ernest Cole, Bruce Davidson, WilliamEggleston, David Goldblatt, Graciela Iturbide, Boris Mikhailov, SigmarPolke, Malick Sidibé, Raghubir Singh, Shomei Tomatsu and Li Zhensheng.
This was a politically dramatic (apartheid, Vietnam, Mao's cultural revolution, civil rights protest) and culturally rich period. The photographers featured are an international mix of perspectives and approaches. So diverse is the content that Adrian Searle suggests, in his review, that it might best be approached as a series of solo exhibitions.
Read reviews by Adrian Searle and Sean O'Hagan and article at the Royal Photographic Society.
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Larry Burrows, US soldier during Operation Pegasus, Khe
Sanh,
Vietnam, April 1968
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| Add captionErnest Cole, handcuffed black South Africans, arrested for being in a white area illegally; from his book House of Bondage, featuring mostly clandestine shots of the effects of apartheid |
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Bruce Davidson, City, 1962
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| William Eggleston, from William Eggleston’s Guide, 1976 |
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David Goldblatt, Saturday Morning at The Hypermarket:
Semi-final of the Miss Lovely Legs Competition, Bocksburg, 28 June 1980
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Boris Mikhailov, from Yesterday's Sandwich's series
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Sigmar Polke's The
Bear Fight, 1974, in which Afghanis enjoy a bear-baiting
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| Malick Sidibé, Studio Portrait, 1969 |
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Raghubir
Singh, Pilgrim and Ambassador Car, northern India, 1977
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Shomei Tomatsu, Coca-cola, Tokyo, 1969
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Li Zhensheng, several hundred thousand Red Guards at a 'Learning and Applying Mao Zedong
Thought' rally in Red Guard Square (formerly People's Stadium), Harbin,
Heilongjiang province, 1966
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