Street Photography Now

V&A's new centre reveals pivotal role photography plays in reflecting and shaping our world

Retrieved on: 
Jeudi, juin 29, 2023
Giant, Technology, Collection, Photograph, Printing, Tree, Light, Research, Wind, Photography, Albert Museum, Street Photography Now, Publishing, Climate change, Reading, Paper, Trauma, Female, Camera, Interior design, Medical imaging, Book, Creative industries

Set to be the UK’s largest permanent photography display, it will survey the medium’s past, present and future.

Key Points: 
  • Set to be the UK’s largest permanent photography display, it will survey the medium’s past, present and future.
  • The V&A’s new addition will, like London’s long-established Photographers’ Gallery, contribute to our understanding of the pivotal role that photography has played in reflecting on and shaping our world.

A quick tour

    • Visitors are presented with juxtaposing images under a programme of changing themes, starting with Energies: Sparks from the Collection.
    • The theme prompts visitors to meditate on the way the medium captures the energy of a subject in an image.
    • It also asks them to consider the way images are manipulated through photo-chemical processes.
    • It will be interesting to see to what extent this approach will produce new perspectives on the diversity of images held in the V&A’s collection.
    • Goudal photographs trees and then inserts scale photographs back into the real world and photographs them again.

A huge undertaking

    • Which means photography has a number of overlapping histories: as a technology of seeing, a social document and an aesthetic practice.
    • And how best do we present each photograph to stimulate thought and action beyond the confines of the gallery?