ST. IVES, UK – Tate St. Ives will present “The Modern Lens: International Photography and the Tate Collection,” which surveys key developments in international photography from the 1920s to the 1960s. Featuring more than 30 pioneering artists from across Europe, the Americas and Japan, the exhibition explores how photographers sought to produce new visions of the modern world. It will be displayed Oct. 14 through May 10, 2015.

In the early 20 century artists became ever more confident at working across different media. This led to shared interests between architects, designers, painters, sculptors, photographers, poets and musicians. Some of the most important artists studied and worked together in avant-garde groups, developing experimental approaches described now as “modernist.”

“The Modern Lens” presents many different strands of modernist art and explores its relationship to photography. It ranges from the dream-like imagery of surrealism and the experiments of camera-less photography to the precision of the “new vision,” through which photographers transformed the world around them into formal compositions of light and shadow.

Modernism was a catalyst, an international tendency that allowed artists to view their own environments in new ways. It can be seen from St. Ives to Japan, with schools such as the Bauhaus in Germany functioning as centers for these emerging ideas. Loosely arranged geographically, “The Modern Lens” demonstrates the significance of local perspectives within the universal agendas of modernism.

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