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Reality Check: Recent Developments in British Photography and Video

Author: Andrea Rose
Category: Catalogue
Publisher: The British Council
ISBN: 0863555047
Year: 2002
Subject: Photography, Video, Public Art
Description: Published alongside an exhibition at The Photographers` Gallery (24 October - 25 November 2002) Reality Check brings together 16 contemporary British photographers and film/video makers in an exhibition which explores the camera`s capacity to transform real experience (whether through re-enactment and visual replay or through close observation and obsessive documentation) into the realm of the poetic. Kate Bush`s essay explores the notion of `reality check` (that self-conscious moment of taking stock) in relation to the artists included in the exhibition, focussing on themes of the dislocated subject, painting the everyday, fabulous realism and politics personified. Brett Rogers and Alex Farquharson contribute critical texts on each of the 16 participating artists.

Language: English.
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