{"id":583,"date":"2015-06-11T11:55:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T11:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2017-06-17T11:25:18","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T11:25:18","slug":"the-modern-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"The Modern Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expectations \u00a0figure prominently in the experience of this exhibition, currently on view at Tate St.-Ives. You can just admire the images, of course, and there is a lot to admire. \u00a0The print reproduced here\u00a0is a case in point. \u00a0But that in itself won&#8217;t help you figure out what ties it all together. The crucial information is that the exhibition draws on Tate&#8217;s own collections. \u00a0The organizers might have just submitted meekly to this restriction, and produced something less risky and less interesting. \u00a0Instead, in addition to occasionally showing off the collection&#8217;s strengths, they&#8217;ve tried to choose objects that offer various sorts of challenges to what visitors are likely to expect, challenges to the most widely-accepted &#8220;story&#8221; of \u00a0photography as <em>modern<\/em> art. \u00a0For example the <em>Still Life<\/em> just mentioned looks somewhat familiar and was made at some point between 1930 and 1939. \u00a0But was made by Shikanosuke Yagaki, a Japanese photographer Tate St.-Ives visitors are unlikely to know. \u00a0And that kind of news becomes in invitation to rethink many assumptions about the whos and wheres and hows of modern photography. \u00a0My review of the exhibition will appear in the next issue of <em>Source<\/em> Magazine (Belfast). For more, see:\u00a0http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-st-ives\/exhibition\/modern-lens-international-photography-and-tate-collection<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Yagaki-Still-Life-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-585\" src=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Yagaki-Still-Life-.jpg\" alt=\"Yagaki Still Life\" width=\"500\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Yagaki-Still-Life-.jpg 500w, https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Yagaki-Still-Life--300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expectations \u00a0figure prominently in the experience of this exhibition, currently on view at Tate St.-Ives. You can just admire the images, of course, and there is a lot to admire. \u00a0The print reproduced here\u00a0is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128,127,126],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","tag-shikanosuke-yagaki","tag-tate-st-ives","tag-the-modern-lens"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}