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everything was moving : photography from the 60s and 70s

13 Sep 2012-13 Jan 2013

Barbican Art Gallery
London EC2Y 8DS

Overview

This major photography exhibition surveys the medium from an international perspective, and includes 12 renowned photographers from across the globe, all working during two of the most memorable decades of the 20th century. everything was moving: photography from the 60s and 70s brings together over 400 works, some rarely seen, others recently discovered and many shown in the UK for the first time. It features key figures including Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, David Goldblatt, Graciela Iturbide, Boris Mikhailov, Malick Sidibé, Shomei Tomatsu, and Li Zhensheng as well as important innovators whose lives were cut tragically short such as Ernest Cole, Raghubir Singh and Larry Burrows.