Saturday I went to the Tate modern to see the William Klein and Daido Moriyama exhibition, which was a film, photography and design retrospective of two artists which ran side by side together.
Klein based a lot of his work in New York, and was well known for his influential photography, in particular fashion photography that he produced for Vogue.
He also documented a lot of street photography in New York and then Tokyo, as well as video and graphic design.
I most enjoyed seeing the video, in particular 'Broadway by Light' which picked up only the neon lights in New York accompanied by a Jazz soundtrack. Commenting on the consumerism and slightly seedy nature of New York streetlife.
Klein's series of contact sheets also stuck out, which were huge and showed 3 images, which he then painted enamel paint over the top to create a mixed media piece. These really caught my eye with the colours used and seeing the selection process in picking the best image.
Similar to Klein, Moriyama was an influential photographer of the Provoke movement in Tokyo in the 1960s. worked primarily in Japan, documenting street life in Tokyo, in particular the darker side of it.
Platform 1977, a series of photographs taken from the other side of a train platform observing the people on the other side, unaware they were being photographed. I found this interesting because since the drawing sessions outdoors I have started to be more aware of people in public places (especially train stations as I seem to be at them so often) I liked how the people kept changing but the setting stayed the same.
Polaroid/Polaroid 1997 was a huge 360 degree photo montage built up only of polaroid photographs of a room, I really liked the scale of this piece and the addition of out of place objects that appeared at random throughout the image.
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