Harry Gruyaert: Between Worlds

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Prof David Alan Mellor investigates and explains the Anglo-American cultural contexts that drove Smith’s art, while Alex Massouras’s two themed essays, ‘Young and British’ and ‘From Motion Pictures to Flight’, explore Smith’s originality from fresh perspectives. Harry Gruyaert is renowned for his photographs of India, Morocco and Egypt as well as of the west of Ireland, and for his use of colour. A bit later, Campany continues, “For Gruyaert, making threshold images means bringing together different light levels and different color temperatures.

As a Senior Curator at Tate, Dr Chris Stephens knew Smith well, and he contributes a wide-ranging introduction to Smith’s art and life. A Traveller’s History of Cyprus” offers a complete and authoritative history of the island’s past and also touches on the sensitive present-day issues for both sides of the island.And we also have in the window the reflection of what is behind the photographer – trees and cars and street signs. Another image from is from Madrid in 1993 and appears to be taken outside a subway car, through a sheet of glass to a man and a woman sitting inside the car.

He photographs things we’ve all seen – think about TV Shots, his documentary/commentary on British society made of photographs of television screens – but never seen quite the way he does. The first ever book about Cuban record sleeve design, compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, Cuba: Music and Revolution , when Cuba’s Special Period, brought about by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of Russia’s financial support for the Cuban government, led to the demise of vinyl-record manufacturing in Cuba.Richard Smith (1931-2016) was one of the most original painters of his generation, and one of the most underrated. Between them is another window looking to a subway platform on the far side where two nuns talk to a woman and a young boy. There is the story from the observer, the story from the two inside the car (the looks on their faces speak volumes), the story from the four the far distance. A picture from New York City in 2020 is again a combination of direct vision, obscured vision, reflection, perhaps even reflections of reflections. There is so much going on in all these images and the result is not confusion as much as a nuanced and sophisticated complexity.