Don McCullin
Near Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin 1961
© Don McCullin
Curator Simon Baker shares the ambitions behind the exhibition, which coincides with the centenary of the start of the First World War, and highlights time as a crucial aspect of the medium:
We wanted to think about the way photographers have photographed moments of conflict after they have happened, thinking about their long-term effects. So rather than having a chronology of many different conflicts one after another, the works are grouped together depending on how long after the event they were made: moments later, days later, weeks later and so on up to a hundred years later.
A Timeline of Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern
Moments later
Luc Delahaye US Bombing on Taliban Positions c2001
© Luc Delahaye
Days, weeks, months later
Matsumoto Eiichi
Shadow of a soldier remaining on the wooden wall of the Nagasaki military headquarters (Minami-Yamata machi, 4.5km from Ground Zero) 1945
Gelatin silver print on paper
315mm x 207mm
© Estate of Matsumoto Eiichi, courtesy Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
Days, weeks, months later
Simon Norfolk
Bullet scarred cinema at the Palace of Culture in the Karte Char district of Kabul. This area saw fighting between the Hikmetyar and Rabbani and then between Rabbani and the Hazaras 2003
C-type print on paper
508mm x 609mm
© Simon Norfolk, private collection
1-10 years later
Jim Goldberg
Prized Possession from the series Democratic Republic of Congo 2008
C-type print on paper
508mm x 406mm
© Jim Goldberg, courtesy the artist and Pace McGill Gallery, New York
10-25 years later
Don McCullin
Friedrichstrasse, Berlin 1961
Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
380 x 380 mm
Tate © Don McCullin
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10-25 years later
Shomei Tomatsu
Iron helmet with parts of human skull attached. Near the hypocenter, 1963 1963
Gelatin silver print on paper
226mm x 303mm
© Shomei Tomatsu, courtesy Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
80-100 years later
Hrair Sarkissian
Istory 2010
C-type print on paper
158mm x 198mm
© Hrair Sarkissian, courtesy Arsen Kalfayan, Kalfayan Galleries, Athens
Conflict, Time, Photography is on display at Tate Modern from 26 November until 15 March 2015