The Radical Eye: Modernist Photography from The Sir Elton John Collection
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Sir Elton John, musician and philanthropist, has built one of the greatest private collections of photography in the world. This book presents an unparalleled selection of modernist images, which introduce a crucial moment in the history of photography when artists were beginning to use the camera and darkroom to redefine and transform visions of the…
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 240
Number of images: 185
Publication date: 2016-11-15
Measurements: 8.5 x 11.4 x 1.1 inches
ISBN: 9781597113861
Shoair Mavlian is an Assistant Curator at Tate Modern focusing primarily on photography. Recent co-curated exhibitions include Conflict, Time, Photography (2014) and Project Space: A Chronicle of Interventions (2014).
Simon Baker is the Senior Curator of Photography and International Art at Tate Modern. His recent major exhibitions include Performing for the Camera (2015) and Conflict, Time, Photography (2014). Before joining Tate Modern in 2009, he was a professor of art history at the University of Nottingham.
Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita at the University of Essex, and former co-director of the Center for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies, UK. She has published works on Surrealism, Photomontage, Dada, women artists and Mexican muralists.