About Face
- Future
- Past
- Alexander Rodchenko: Revolution in Photography
- Laughing in a Foreign Language
- The Painting of Modern Life
- Antony Gormley: Blind Light
- Atelier Van Lieshout: Board Room
- How to Improve the World
- Undercover Surrealism
- Dan Flavin: A Retrospective
- Universal Experience
- Rebecca Horn: Bodylandscapes
- Africa Remix
- Eyes, Lies and Illusions
- About Face
- Jaques Henri Lartigue
- Roy Lichtenstein
- Saved!
- Douglas Gordon
- Ansel Adams
- William Eggleston
- Sam Taylor Wood
- Paul Klee
- Ann-Sofi Siden
- Facts of Life
Photography and the Death of the Portrait
24 June - 05 September 2004
A new generation of artists and photographers challenged the conventions of the photographic portrait in this exploration of the ‘face’.
The works in About Face revealed a wide range of approaches from ‘straightforward’ photography, photomontage, appropriation of found imagery and multiple exposures to complex computer manipulations that challenged our perceptions of beauty and truth. In an age of digital technology and media domination, miracle drugs, plastic surgery and genetic engineering, the artists asked can we still take the portrait at face value?
Artists included Aziz + Cucher, Valérie Belin, Nancy Burson, Rineke Dijkstra, Lee Friedlander, Inez van Lamsweerde, Vinoodh Matadin, Orlan, Martin Parr, Thomas Ruff and Gillian Wearing.
