A while back I went to see Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern. I spent around 3 hours in there slowly moving around the exhibit reading everything and making notes on the framing and display and mounting of each of the works, unfortunately I lost my notebook before I had typed it all up, here are my very few notes, literally only 2% of what I wrote as the exhibit was quite extensive!
Conflict time Photography
The exhibition starts with 3 paragraphs about the Dresden Air Raids in February 1945.
Kurt Vonnent Jr – Was a Prisoner kept in an underground meat locker during that time
“looking back without becoming frozen in the process”
25 minutes after the bombs on Hiroshima, were taken from the top of a hill that shielded the photographer and his surroundings from the bomb blast.
They are in thin black frames, large white space of mount board as a frame around the photographs.
The third photo out of the four black and white photographs has a lot of dust and scratches from the film. Interesting to me, makes it seem to me that the camera had been involved in a bomb blast and as such had been broken and thrown around. The other 3 shots didn’t have as many scratches in them. The scratches looked to be in the film rather than the prints.
Luc Delahaye 2001 US Bomb Taliban Positions
He used a large format camera. The print is huge, about a meter tall and in a 16x9 ratio, or something similar. It had a thick wooden frame that was next to the picture; mount board didn’t surround it.
There was a small amount of smoke in the center and some lesser smoke in the right hand side in the distance. It looks like beautiful field taken in the golden hour and looks serene almost, if the smoke wasn’t there and the knowledge that bombs were being dropped.
Luc Delahaye 2006 Iraq Insurgents Bombs on US
There is a broken vehicle in the center, to the side of a road. The whole picture is grey. The photograph is filled with an eerie sense of calm before the storm, or shock and confusion over what just happened.
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