EVERYTHING WAS MOVING
The Design team visited the Barbican Art Gallery this week to see the current exhibition Everything was Moving: Photography from the 60s and 70s, which features over 400 works by twelve photographers from around the world. The photographs as a body illustrate not only the dramatically changing times of the decades the exhibition spans, but also developments within the medium of photography itself.
We were familiar with some of the photographers and are privileged to have used work by a couple of them on our covers over the years. We were however enthralled by several photographers new to us, perhaps most notably the work of the South African Ernest Cole, a self-taught photographer who against the odds managed to make an extraordinary and moving record of the hardship of every day life for black people under the Apartheid regime.
This is a hugely rewarding and thought-provoking exhibition set within the broad sweep and turbulent times of two decades, from China’s Cultural Revolution, the Civil Rights movement in the USA, life in the Soviet Union, the Vietnam War and beyond.
Photographers included in the show: Ernest Cole, David Goldblatt, Bruce Davidson, William Eggleston, Graciela Iturbide, Boris Mikhailov, Shomei Tomatsu, Larry Burrows, Li Zhensheng, Malick Sidibé, Raghubir Singh, Sigmar Polke
