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“The Battle of Orgreave“, 2001 by Jeremy Deller.
A large scale performance re-enacting a confrontation between the police and striking miners from the 1984–5 miners strike. Video. (VVork)
Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971«, 2008 by Stan Douglas.
Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971 depicts an event in which the police violently intervened in a public protest against undercover police tactics and in favour of the legalization of marijuana. The composition was realized using cinematic staging and digital compositing techniques to assemble 50 different images taken with the camera in the same position. Striving for historical accuracy, Douglas undertook extensive research, collecting archival photographs and conducting interviews with witnesses and participants to recreate the scene in painstaking detail. Using complex production methods similar to those of the film industry, the details of local businesses, commercial signage and period clothing were carefully replicated to represent the past. The combined use of theatrical and digital processes enabled a heightened form of realism. A focus on individuals in the crowd reveals the reactions on their faces. (From Wikipedia)
Andy Warhol: Birmingham Race Riot (F&S II. 3), 1964
The riots at Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963 were notorious across America, and with this wide publicity the event was one of the climaxes of the Civil Rights Movement. Supporters of Martin Luther King, protesting at segregation at lunch counters, were attacked by the police with dogs and water hoses, and King himself was arrested. Warhol contributed this small print to a portfolio of work by ten artists, published the year after the riot. The image is changed only in size and status from a newspaper photograph. In the form of a print in this portfolio it commemorates the tensions in American popular life at the time, and forcefully illustrates the distance of the arts from such events.
(From Tate display caption September 2004)
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