Huxley-Parlour, Modern Objects, 2023 Exhibition

Closed

28.4 – 27.5 2023

Modern Objects

3–5 Swallow St

Modern Objects

28.04 – 27.05.2023

Includes:Alvarez BravoBourke WhiteCunninghamFunkeKerteszKollarMaarModottiMorganOuterbridgeRosslerSteichenWestonWorks (24)

Closed

Hours

Monday to Saturday

10:00 am – 5:30 pm

Gallery

3–5 Swallow St
London
W1B 4DE

Huxley-Parlour are pleased to announce Modern Objects, an exhibition that explores the radical shifts in photography as Modernism dawned. Taking the genre of still life as its conceptual foundation, the exhibition examines image-making in the age of expanding mass-production, burgeoning consumerism, and reification of the object. The photographers in the exhibition each lent fresh perspectives to this rapidly modernising world.

Includes: Manual Alvarez Bravo, Margaret Bourke White, Imogen Cunningham, Jaromir Funke, Andre Kertesz, Francois Kollar, Dora Maar, Tina Modotti, Barbara Morgan, Paul Outerbridge, Jaroslav Rossler, Edward Steichen, Edward Weston

The tumultuous cultural and social shifts in the years after the First World War required an artistic means of breaking with dominant discourses and dismantling established traditions. It was in this fertile ground that photographers rejected the prevailing Pictorialism, and set forth an experimental new vision for the medium, influenced by significant cultural shifts and wider developments of Modernism. In his 1935 essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ the theorist Walter Benjamin acknowledged a new artistic order, distinct from that which had come before. Central to Benjamin’s critique was the expansion of mass-production and the dawning of the age of consumerism and object fetishisation.

THE EXHIBITION

5

The Works

24

1

Paul Outerbridge

Egg in Spotlight

1928

Silver gelatin print, printed 1928

2

Tina Modotti

Telephone Wires

1923-1929

Platinum print, printed by Ava Vegara c. 1990

3

Tina Modotti

Experiment in Related From or Glasses

1924

Platinum print, printed by Ava Vegara c. 1990

4

Margaret Bourke-White

Nitrogen Fermentation Tanks

1932

Silver gelatin print

5

Jaromír Funke 

Abstraction

1928

Silver gelatin print

6

Jaroslav Rössler 

Still-life with Ear of Wheat and an Egg

1958

Silver gelatin print, printed c. 1958

7

Jaromír Funke 

Still Life

c.1923

Silver bromide print, printed c. 1923

8

Jaroslav Rössler 

Bayer Aspirin

1936

Silver gelatin print, printed c. 1936

9

François Kollar

Photomontage with Chess Pieces and Woman

1946

Silver gelatin print, printed c. 1946

10

Edward Steichen

Spectacles

1927

Silver gelatin print mounted to card, printed c.1927

11

Edward Weston

Shell and Rock Arrangement

1931

Silver gelatin print, printed 1940, mounted on board

12

Edward Weston

Shell

1927

Silver gelatin print mounted to card, printed later

13

Edward Weston

Toadstool

1931

Silver gelatin print mounted to card, printed by Cole Weston

14

Edward Weston

Red Cabbage Halved

1930

Silver gelatin print, mounted to card, printed by Cole Weston

15

Imogen Cunningham 

Untitled, (Agave)

1930s

Silver gelatin print, printed 1930s

16

Edward Steichen

Heavy Roses, Voulangis, France

1914

Toned silver gelatin print, printed circa 1950, mounted on card

17

Manuel Álvarez Bravo 

Books

1930

Silver gelatin print, printed later

18

Ralph Steiner

Ford

1929

Silver gelatin contact print, printed 1932

19

André Kertész

Mondrian’s Glasses and Pipe, Paris, France

1926

Silver gelatin print mounted to card, printed 1928

20

Brett Weston

Ford Tri Motor Plane

1944

Silver gelatin print, printed 1944

21

André Kertész

Modernist Tree Study

1923

Vintage silver gelatin print, printed 1923

22

Barbara Morgan

Corn Stalk

1945

Silver gelatin print

23

Barbara Morgan

City Shell (Photomontage)

1938

Silver gelatin print mounted to card

24

Circle of Emile Langui

Surreal Still Life of Feather, Marbles and Crystal

circa 1928

Silver gelatin print

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