Shape of light: experiments in photography and abstract art – in pictures
These exclusive images from the Tate Modern’s major new exhibition reveal the entangled stories of photography and abstract art over the last 100 years – from playing with prisms to the Photoshop era
- Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art is at Tate Modern from 2 May. Read our review here.
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1917
Vortograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn.Photograph: George Eastman House/The Universal Order
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1924
Proun in Material (Proun 83) by El Lissitzky.Photograph: Jack Kirkland Collection, Nottingham
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1927
Untitled by Man Ray.Photograph: J. Paul Getty Museum/Man Ray Trust/ADAGP and DACS
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1928
Triangles by Imogen Cunningham.Photograph: Imogen Cunningham Trust
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1930
Anatomies by Man Ray.Photograph: Man Ray Trust/ADAGP and DACS
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1940
Photo n.145 by Luigi Veronesi.Photograph: TATE/© Archivo Luigi Veronesi, Milano
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1949
Composition of Forms by Otto Steinert.Photograph: Estate Otto Steinert, Museum Folkwang, Essen
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1952
Untitled by Guy Bourdin.Photograph: The Guy Bourdin Estate
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1952
Luminogram II by Otto Steinert.Photograph: Estate Otto Steinert, Museum Folkwang, Essen
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1958
East Sussex Coast by Bill Brandt.Photograph: Bill Brandt Archive, London
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1967
Gilmore Drive-In Theater - 6201 W Third St from the series Parking Lots by Edward Ruscha.Photograph: Ed Ruscha/Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery
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1974
Photogenic Painting, Untitled 74/13 by Barbara Kasten.Photograph: Barbara Kasten/Thomas Dane Gallery and Bortolami Gallery, New York
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1986
Zepes by James Welling.Photograph: James Welling/David Zwirner
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1992
Untitled (Uranium Green) by Sigmar Polke.Photograph: The Estate of Sigmar Polke / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn and DACS
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2017
LDN5_051 by Antony Cairns.Photograph: Antony Cairns
