From the seconds after a bomb is detonated to a former scene of battle years after a war has ended, this moving exhibition “Conflict, Time, Photography” presented in Tate Modern focuses on the passing of time, tracing a poignant journey through over 150 years of conflict around the world, since the invention of photography.
The presentation is quite innovative, since the different works are ordered according to how long after the event they were created: it can be seconds, days, weeks or years later. This concept is very interesting, because the photographs are not only a document of a concrete event but they also allow us to connect different situations between themselves: for example, images made in Vietnam 25 years after the fall of Saigon are shown alongside those made in Nakasaki 25 years after the atomic bomb.
An other fascinating point is the multiple visions in time of a same conflict.
The exhibition features famous photographers such as McCullin, Toshio Fukada, Luc Delahaye, Matsumoto Eiichi…
For sure the spectator will feel touched by these poignant photographs which portrayed conflicts during years.
Simon Norfolk, bullet-scarred apartment building and shops in the Karte Char district of Kabul, 2003
Don McCullin, Shell Shocked US Marine, The Battle of Hue 1968
Toshio Fukada, The Mushroom Cloud – Less than twenty minutes after the explosion of the atomic bomb, 1945
Until April 14th, 2015.
Tate Modern – Bankside, London SE1 9TG, Reino Unido
