I Am a Camera: The Saatchi Gallery

by Graphic Thought Facility

I Am a Camera presents primarily photographic work organised into three "True Life Adventures", "Fiction and Artifice", and "Places Portraits Still Lives Tableaux". Some of the works included are from emerging and unknown artists while most are fully fledged art stars. Sam Taylor-Wood's panoramic views of contemporary domestic life; Jessica Craig-Martin's cropped close-ups of high society social life reveal nameless wrinkles and age spots on the rich and famous; Andreas Gursky's exaggerated images of urban existence, a sterile display of Nike sneakers or the endless grid of hotel's balconies, show modern life with barely a trace of human existence. The works included vary greatly from each other but each offers a compelling interpretation about how we live.

Genres: Photography

436 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2001

Reviews

[Noah · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the first exhibition that I saw at The Saatchi Gallery, in the original space on Boundary Road. The exhibition gained some notoriety after a police visit and tabloid coverage over a series of pictures by Tierney Gearon featuring her two young children in the nude. Some believe however, that the controversy was created or drummed up by Charles Saatchi. The photo on the cover of this collection is one of Gearon's works.