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Known and Strange: Photographs from the Collection

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  • On now until Sunday, 6 November 2022

  • Room 101, Photography Centre – The Sir Elton John and David Furnish Gallery

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This display highlights photography's power to transform the familiar into the unfamiliar, and the ordinary into the extraordinary. Showcasing new acquisitions, it presents some of the most compelling achievements in contemporary art photography.

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Large format C-type handprint in a landscape format, framed and unglazed. Shows rocks/rugged landscape and sky
Untitled (JE-12121212-2), from the series Constructed Landscapes, C-type print, by Dafna Talmor, 2015, London, England. Purchase funded by the Photographs Acquisition Group. Museum no. E.3506-2018. © Dafna Talmor
Photograph of a woman. Her face has been embroidered with an oblong in yellow thread, and a small circle left to show the eye
Lucy, embroidery on gelatin silver print, by Maurizio Anzeri, 2018, London, England. Purchase funded by the Photographs Acquisition Group. Museum no. E.709-2019. © Maurizio Anzeri
Elm tree located beside a road. The tree leans against a concrete support. There are housing apartments in the background.
American Elm, Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, Gelatin silver print, by Mitch Epstein, 2012, New York, US. Purchase funded by Mark Storey and Carey Adina Karmel in memory of George Sassower. Museum no. E.620-2019. © Mitch Epstein
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Background image: The Unseen, gelatin silver print, by Tereza Zelenkova, 2015. Museum no. E.218-2018. Purchase funded by the Photographs Acquisition Group. © Tereza Zelenkova