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Tate Modern is currently holding The Radical Eye, a collection of photographs from Sir Elton John. It's photograhs range from Bahuaus abstraction to 1930's social documentary, staged and the causual, studio potraits and street photography, surrealism and still life. As they were all from an era of new ideas emerging within photography and art. Each room with a collection of photogtaphs with its own subject matter, never failed to amaze as we witnessed the growth of these photographers.The new vision and New Objectivity Movements were interesting to see espically from studying photographs from the movement.Elton is very fond of potraits, one of which being Penn's 1948 series, which is of Duke Ellington, Noel Coward, Joe Louis, Salvador Dalí and others posing in a tight corner between 2 walls as a way of letting these subjects 'act' for the camera. Elton's more imporant image is the postage stamp-sized Andre Kertesz 1917 Underwater Swimmer, Esztergom, Hungary, as he views these photographs not just as images but as objects. Overall i enjoyed the exhibition as it broadned my knowledge on new photographers and made me more aware of photographers we have studied previously.
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