Craigie Horsfield (born 1949 in
Cambridge
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artist. In 1996 he was nominated for the annual
Turner Prize.
Horsfield described his work (photographs of the environments and people around him) as, "intimate in scale but its ambition is, uncomfortable as I find it, towards an epic dimension, to describe the history of our century, and the centuries beyond, the seething extent of the human condition."
Turner Prize History: Craigie Horsfield
tate.org.uk. Accessed April 15, 2006
He often prints the photographs many years after they were first taken, bringing into contrast memory and the present reality.[Factum Arte]
Accessed June 4, 2017.
His work was shown in Documenta XI, Kassel in 2002 and the Whitney Biennial in 2003.
He lives and works in London and New York.
See also
* Turner Prize
Notes and references
External links
Work in the Tate Gallery
* Craigie Horsfield by Museo Cantonale d’Arte Museo may refer to:
* Museo, 2018 Mexican drama heist film
* Museo (Naples Metro), station on line 1 of the Naples Metro
* Museo, Seville, neighborhood of Seville, Spain
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Craigie Horsfield. The City of the People
Exhibition at Fundació Antoni Tàpies
1949 births
Living people
Photographers from Cambridgeshire
English contemporary artists
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