Room Guide
Room 11
Contemporary Street & Studio II
Jeff Wall’s The Arrest looks at ethnic discrimination in the artist’s home city of Vancouver. The scene of two police officers arresting a Hispanic man has been carefully constructed using actors and cinematic lighting, extending a long tradition of staging documentary imagery outside the studio.
In the Go-Sees, fashion photographer Juergen Teller documented hundreds of young girls who came to the door of his London studio hoping to make it as models. He captured them posing quite literally at the threshold between street and studio. Rineke Dijkstra's subjects are also adolescents in the process of defining themselves. Her vignettes of young people dancing were made in improvised studios she set up in nightclubs. The teenagers seem awkward and vulnerable as they pose, smoke, dance, and try to look sophisticated.
Reinventing the Studio
Martin Parr and Lee To Sang’s studio photographs remind us how international the language of photography has become. Parr had his picture taken in portrait studios, photobooths and improvised studios across the globe, revealing some of the more bizarre strategies adopted by photographers. To Sang’s studio in a multicultural quarter of Amsterdam invites a local clientele to pose in front of backgrounds that range from the Alps to a Chinese garden. Adrian Paci’s photographs make the narratives of internationalism more explicit by posing émigré families in front of the Albanian homes they have left behind.
Text by Sophie Howarth
- Other works in this room
- Frank Berger (1972 Leipzig, lives in Leipzig)
Traffic Assistants, Shanghai, 2007
Projection, 80 slides 6 x 7 cm
Courtesy of the artist - Jeff Wall (1946 Vancouver, lives in Vancouver)
The Arrest,1989, 120 x 145 x 4 cm
Transparency in lightbox
Collection Sébastien Janssen, Brussels, Belgium - Beat Streuli (1957 Altdorf, Switzerland, lives in Zurich, Brussels and Dusseldorf)
Porte de Ninove, Bruxelles (Porte de Ninove, Brussels), 2007
Two-screen digital slide show
Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf-Berlin - Philip Kwame Apagya (1958 Sekondi, Ghana, lives in Ghana)
Francis in Manhattan, 1996/2000, 69.5 x 49 cm
C-Print
Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp - Marjaana Kella (1961 Orimattila, Finland, lives in Helsinki)
From the series Hypnoosi (Hypnosis)
Nainen hypnoositilassa (Hypnostised Woman), 1997, 170 x 125 cm
Nuori nainen hypnoositilassa · 3 (Young Hypnotised Woman · 3), 1999, 165 x 125 cm
C-prints
Marjanna Kella/Courtesy Van Zoetendaal Amsterdam - Lee To Sang (1939 Hong Kong, lives in Amsterdam)
Lee To Sang, To Sang Photo Studio Amsterdam, ca. 1995, printed 2007
Lee To Sang, To Sang Photo Studio Amsterdam, ca. 1980, printed 2007
Lee To Sang, To Sang Photo Studio Amsterdam, ca. 1980, printed 2007
C-Prints, each 40 x 30 cm
Lee To Sang/Courtesy Van Zoetendaal Amsterdam
- Gillian Wearing (1963 Birmingham, lives in London)
From the series Album
Selfportrait as my Mother Jean Gregory, 2003, 135 x 116 cm
C-Print
Collection Maureen Paley
Selfportrait as my Father Brian Wearing, 2003, 164 x 130.5 cm
C-Print
Collection Greatford Estates Limited - Rineke Dijkstra (1959 Sittard, Netherlands, lives in Amsterdam)
The Buzzclub Liverpool, UK/Mysteryworld, Zaandam, NL, 1996–7
Two screened video projection, sound, duration 26.40 seconds
Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York - FotoRamblas
From series of Boxeadores, luchadores, varietés (Boxers, Fighters,Vaudevilles), 1960s, printed 2008, 60 x 50 cm
Angels, Barcelona - Martin Parr (1952 Epsom, United Kingdom, lives in Bristol)
From the series Autoportraits, 1999–2001
Bangladesh, Dhaka, 36 x 32 cm
Cuba, Havana, 47 x 57 cm
HollandAmsterdam, 35 x 31 cm
Thailand, Bangok, 33 x 28 cm
Singapore, New Ming Chun Photo Studio, 24 x 19 cm
Portugal, Santa Cruz, 30 x 25 cm
England, Tac Studios, London, 19 x 24 cm
Argentina, 15 x 20.5 cm
Italy, Rome, 9 x 11 cm
North Korea, 20.5 x 26 cm
C-Prints
© Martin Parr/Magnum Photos - Thomas Ruff (1958 Zell am Hammersbach, Germany, lives in Dusseldorf)
Portraits, 1981–5 p. 108/109
Forty C-Prints, 24 x 18 cm
Fotografische Sammlung, Museum Folkwang, Essen - Juergen Teller (1964 Erlangen, Germany, lives in London)
From the series Go sees
Carmel, 9th September, 1998
Ana, 30th September 1998
Sophie Dahl, 20th October, 1998
Desire and Candice Neil, 22nd May 1998
Christie Foley, 20th October 1998
Eva Bodenhoff, 20th October 1998 Cover image and p. 130
Mak, 9th October, 1998
Romilly, 14th January, 1999
Eight prints, C-prints, each 24 x 30.5 cm
Courtesey of the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery - Helmut Newton (Helmut Neustädter) (1920 Berlin – 2004 Los Angeles)
Catherine Deneuve, 1983, 51 x 36 cm
C-print
Helmut Newton Foundation/Permanent Loan Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kunstbibliothek - Garry Winogrand (1928 New York – 1984 Tijuana, Mexico)
From a series of photographed women in the public space
New York,n.d., 35.6 x 28.9 cm
GalerieThomas Zander, Cologne - Café space
FotoRamblas
From series of Boxeadores, luchadores, varietés (Boxers, Fighters,Vaudevilles), 1960s, printed 2008, 60 x 50 cm
Angels, Barcelo
- Frank Berger (1972 Leipzig, lives in Leipzig)