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Tate Modern: from 13 June, "Capturing the moment "

Andy Warhol Self Portrait 1966–1967 YAGEO Foundation Collection, Taiwan © 2023 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by DACS, London.

Featuring iconic artworks by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, Alice Neel and more, you'll discover how photography transformed painting forever.

From the expressive paintings of Pablo Picasso and Paula Rego, to striking photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto and Jeff Wall, you will see how these two distinct mediums have shaped each other over time.

The arrival of photography changed the course of painting forever. In this unique exhibition, we explore the dynamic relationship between the two mediums through some of the most iconic artworks of recent times.

You will also discover how artists have blurred the boundaries between painting and photography, creating new and exciting forms of art, such as Pauline Boty's pop paintings, Andy Warhol’s silkscreen prints, the photorealist works of Gerhard Richter, or Andreas Gursky's large-scale panoramic photographs.

In an open-ended conversation between some of the greatest painters and photographers of the modern era, we explore how the brush and the lens have been used to capture moments in time.

The exhibition is realised in collaboration with the YAGEO Foundation, Taiwan. The YAGEO Foundation was founded by Taiwanese collector, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Pierre Chen in 1999.