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Saturdays 25 October and 8 November
15.00 – 17.30
The Joy of Things
Led by artist Jason Evans

  Gabriel Orozco, Cats and Watermelons, 1992
Gabriel Orozco
Cats and Watermelons
 1992
© the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
 

‘One should not only photograph things for what they are but for what else they are,’ wrote the American photographer Minor White. From the natural to the industrial, the ancient to the ephemeral, this workshop will be a subjective, humorous jaunt through the history of object photography. Approaching still life as a genre encompassing objects of cultural value, sentimental value, or no value at all, it will juggle images of the vernacular and the peculiar, looking at instances when the subject of an image may not be the object defined, nor the object quite what it seems.


Between the two sessions participants will be asked to take and collect photographs to be the starting point for a discussion about how we perceive and relate to different kinds of objects today.

No photographic experience is necessary but patricipants will need to use their own camera, either manual or automatic between sessions.

Tate Modern McAulay B, Level 1
£40 (£25 concessions) includes refreshments

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