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The Capitol, 6 January 2021. Washington D.C. © Reuters/Leah Millis
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Pink Sidewalk, Florida, 2017. From the series Floodzone. © Anastasia Samoylova
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Grant Park, Chicago, 1968 © Charles Harbutt
Exhibition
America in Crisis
21 Jan 2022 – 3 Apr 2022
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Tickets from £3, Members go for free https://www.saatchigallery.com/exhibition/pages/aic_tickets
Address
- Duke of York's HQ
- King's Road
- London
- SW3 4SQ
- United Kingdom
America in Crisis will bring together 40 leading American photographers and over 120 works exploring social change in the U.S from the 1960s until today. Curated by Sophie Wright, Gregory Harris from Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, and Tara Pixley.
About
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.
