“We’ve invited the Archive of Modern Conflict to make their own exhibition inside Tate’s exhibition. This is almost a completely alternative view of thinking about history and memory and the history of conflict. So where the main exhibition has a very clear ordered sequence from months, days later to years later, the Archive of Modern Conflict have made almost a collage of memory, of objects from throughout the twentieth century, thinking back to the first world war, to wars in the nineteenth century through vernacular objects, through albums, through photographs of different kinds, there are photographs here by people like Robert Capa, Lee Miller, Don McCullin but there are also photographs by people whose name’s we don’t know, by soldiers, by people fighting in these conflicts. So it’s a really alternative view of thinking backwards and thinking about memory and throughout the space there are quotes from texts about amnesia and forgetting and the Archive of Modern Conflict is really dedicated to reminding us about things that slip out of organised institutional histories of conflict.”
Source: Curator Simon Baker, Tate Modern
Conflict, Time, Photography is on display at Tate Modern from 26 November until 15 March 2015