TateShots 27 February 2014 Victor Burgin on Re-reading Images 'There's no point in making any more images' says artist and writer Victor Burgin TwitterFacebookEmailPinterest We Recommend Left Right John Baldessari: Pure Beauty 'I think what drives me is some elusive quality of trying to get something right –whatever that means' Hito Steyerl: 'Being invisible can be deadly' The German artist addresses the way digital images are created, shared and archived We are here David Campany , Nigel Shafran , Homer Sykes , Martin Parr , Anna Pavord , Viktor Kolár , Kathryn Hughes , Brett Rogers and Tessa Codrington To coincide with Tate Britain’s photographic survey of Britain’s social history, Tate Etc. asked a selection of writers, curators and photographers to reflect on some memorable images. The Separateness of Things, Victor Burgin Victor Burgin Burgin explores the relationship of his own works to Hopper's painting Find Out More Artist Victor Burgin born 1941 Artwork [no title] Victor Burgin 1991 Conceptual photography Conceptual photography is photography that illustrates an idea Conceptual art Conceptual art is art for which the idea (or concept) behind the work is more important than the finished art object. It emerged as an art movement in the 1960s and the term usually refers to art made from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s.
