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
Days, weeks, months later
1-10 years later
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
80-100 years later
Conflict, Time, Photography is on display at Tate Modern from 26 November until 15 March 2015
