Tate Modern | Past Exhibitions

Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph. 5 June - 7 September 2003

There are four themes running through the exhibition for you to explore:

Comparison and Classification
Far Away and Close to Home
Industry and Consumerism
Caught in the Lens

You can follow the links on the right to learn about individual artists. There are filmed interviews with Stephen Shore, Fazal Sheikh, Martin Parr, Paul Graham and Rineke Dijkstra, which you can watch online.

Thomas Ruff
August Sander
Bernd and
Hilla Becher
Thomas Struth
Fazal Sheikh
Michael Schmidt
Robert Frank
Stephen Shore
Walker Evans
Nicholas Nixon
William Eggleston

Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Robert Adams
Albert Renger-Patzsch
Lee Friedlander
Lewis Baltz
Paul Graham
Garry Winogrand
Andreas Gursky
Boris Mikhailov
Diane Arbus
Rineke Dijkstra
Martin Parr

You can find online audio commentaries for Thomas Ruff, Walker Evans, William Eggleston, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Garry Winogrand, Boris Mikhailov and Andreas Gursky.

The full audiotour is availble at the entrance to the exhibition, price £3.50 (£3 concessions).
Tate Audio is produced in association with Acoustiguide, and is sponsored by Bloomberg.

There is also a two-minute film about Cruel and Tender currently being shown at 'Screen On the Hill' and 'Screen on the Green' cinemas in London.