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A new exhibition at the Barbican, featuring 400 images from the 60s and 70s, celebrates the heyday of historical context in photography... Shots of Afghanis enjoying a bear-baiting, apartheid seen from both sides, a Native American carrying a radio through a desert ...
In the catalogue that accompanies this exhibition, curator Kate Bush writes: "Photography does not merely illustrate the world, it articulates it."Everything Was Moving attempts to show not just how the medium articulated the various political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s, but how it responded to the often self-questioning experiments of contemporary conceptual artists like Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha. The predominant creative dynamic in the show, though, is the one articulated in the 1950s by Henri Cartier-Bresson, who proposed that photography should strive to find "a balance... between two worlds – the one inside us and the one outside us".
