AMERICA IN CRISIS

21/1/2022 - 03/04/2022

Admission: Tickets from £3. Concessions available. Free for Members.

America in Crisis will bring together 40 leading American photographers and over 120 works exploring social change in the U.S from the 1960s till today. Organised by Saatchi Gallery, the exhibition is curated by Sophie Wright, Gregory Harris from Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, and LA-based photographer and academic Tara Pixley.

America in Crisis was a ground-breaking group initiative originally conceived in 1969 to assess the state of the nation. This Magnum Photos project was led by American photographer Charles Harbutt and Lee Jones, then Magnum’s New York bureau chief. This group project turned a critical eye on the U.S at a time of great social, political and cultural change, and examined key events in 1968 leading up to Nixon’s inauguration. The 2022 exhibition at Saatchi Gallery will create a dialogue between the original historical photographs from the 1969 Magnum project and new works produced five decades later, by diverse contemporary practitioners, during another tumultuous time in America.

Revisiting and updating this exhibition creates a unique dialogue between leading photographers from 1968, such as Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt and Mary Ellen Mark, and the works of 2020 contemporaries, such as Kris Graves, Balazs Gardi, Zora J Murff, Sheila Pree Bright and Stacy Kranitz. The exhibition highlights the themes present in both eras, confronting the myth of American exceptionalism with the reality of current events.

The original America in Crisis project was conceived not only as an exhibition and publication but as an experimental film and installation. In keeping with the interactive presentation of the original project, the 2022 exhibition will include an immersive and interactive installation that speaks to contemporary image consumption.

Featured Artists

Historical Photographs by
Bruce Davidson,Burk Uzzle,Burt Glinn,Charles Harbutt,Cornell Capa,Constantine Manos,Elliott Erwitt,Eve Arnold,Hiroji Kubota,Marc Riboud,Mary Ellen Mark,Paul Fusco,Roger Malloch,Wayne Miller

Contemporary Photographers
Anastasia Samoylova, Balazs GardiDustin Chambers, Eli Reed, Gabriella Demczuk, Gabrielle Lurie, Gregory Halpern, Hannah Yoon, Jessica Phelps, Josue Rivas, Kennedi Carter, Kris Graves, Kristine Potter, Leah Millis, Matt Black, Natalie Keyssar, Paul D’Amato, Peter Van Agtmael, Philip Montgomery, Robert Cohen, Rose Marie Cromwell, Sheila Pree Bright, Stacy Kranitz, Todd Heisler, Verónica G. Cárdenas, Zora J Murff

SPECIAL THANKS

Magnum Photos and Kummer & Hermann

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