Tate Britain stages ‘capturing the moment’ from 13 June until 28 January 2024. The exhibition focuses on the disruption photography brought to the medium of painting through the most significant works in art history and through recent times.

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.

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.

Forging connections between the greatest painters and photographers of the modern era, the exhibition examines how both media dialogue and captured the most important moments in history.

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Image: David Hockney, Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) , 1972. © David Hockney Photo Art Gallery of New South Wales / Jenni Carter and Louise Lawler, Splash 2006, printed 2012 Tate purchased with the help of the Karpidas family,