In the setting of our Tate Modern, one can perhaps see a pattern emerging in the way photography is currently presented. Five years ago there was the exhibition Cruel and Tender; now we have Street & Studio: twin pairs of antinomies so vast as to embrace anything and everything. What next? Little and Large (from Kertesz to Gursky)? Heaven and Earth? Under such generous awnings and rubrics, the curator can scarcely go wrong.
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[ART JOURNAL] Photojournalists or artists with cameras?
In the 1930s, Robert Capa advised Henri Cartier-Bresson to call himself not an artist, but a photojournalist. Today, photography shows are dominated by self-described ‘artists.’ Has sensation and celebrity triumphed over the documentary style?
By Geoff Dyer / THE GUARDIAN , LONDON
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