Your Selfie in our next edition
Got a good selfie taken in Lambeth, Southwark or Wapping? Then send it to us and be in our next edition… we’ll then post copies of the magazine to you and 5 of your friends.
simon Baker, Curator of Photography at Tate Modern has put together a highly engaging exhibition that shows the work of over 50 photographers and explores the relationship between photography and performance. It is packed with humour, irony and vulnerability.
In the light of this exhibition the fascination we have today with the ‘Selfie’ is not perhaps as shallow as it might first seem; they can reveal more about us, our world and our actions than we think. A photo of the London Eye is enhanced for us when we are captured in it, perhaps even more so when we take it ourselves. At this point we no longer just have a picture of a something memorable, or evidence we were there too, but that we ‘performed’ there and enjoyed it – extended our arm (or selfie-stick), smiled and snapped!
In the 1960s artists Yves Klein and Yayoi Kusama initially began taking photographs of their art performances, documenting their work before realising that in fact the photography was becoming an integral facet of it. Through the work of Lee Friedlander we can see how the photographer appears to gradually notice himself, as a shadow on the pavement or a reflection in a window, in his images. Over the years that follow, this self-inclusion becomes as important, if not more important than the world he initially set out to capture.
Performing for the Camera
Runs until 12 June 2016
TATE MODERN
Bankside
SE1 9TG
t: 020 7887 8888
w: www.tate.org.uk
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exclusive VINTAGES
Award winning Champagne and interesting fine wines
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A CRAFTY beer
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A CUT above
Rotisserie chickens, classic lunches and breakfasts have arrived at Ma's Kitchen on The Cut
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PORTRAIT: Tower Bridge
Taking a closer look at one of London's familiar and most-loved landmarks
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GALLERY damien hirst
Engine rooms of art and 'Power Stations'
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SUMMER festivals
The long tradition, almost ritual, of heading to festivals needs some forward planning so here is a quick heads up of some of the music pilgrimages to consider this year
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SELFIE culture
An exploration of how photography or taking pictures of performance and art overlapped, revealing new dimensions in the images created
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Entertainments SPRING 2016
What's On this season? Jane Horrocks in 'If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me' and more
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WEEKS and weeks of fun
Passports to educational success for the children at Southwark Free School
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SPACE to learn
Getting the environment right for optimal learning at the Walworth Academy in south London
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#girlswithgoals
Getting the best out of young people by encouraging them to 'dream big'
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soup–er SUCCESS
Year 9 at St. Saviour's and St. Olave's raise £138 for Fareshare!
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canada WATER
The continued gentrification of London districts heads south-eastwards
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BRICK lane
A walk along an historic and diverse thoroughfare in East London
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selecting an AGENT
Selling a home is probably one of the most significant transactions you’ll ever undertake.
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