Photos of iconic celebrities and historic moments from the gathering of Elton John and David Furnish will go on show at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum subsequent 12 months.
The museum mentioned Tuesday that the exhibition, titled “Fragile Beauty,” will embody 300 photos by greater than 140 photographers, together with Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Eggleston, Zanele Muholi and Ai Weiwei.
The photos, a lot of which have by no means been on public show, might be on present from May 18, 2024, till Jan 5, 2025.
The exhibition will embody portraits of stars together with Marilyn Monroe, Miles Davis and Chet Baker, and photojournalism from historic moments together with the Black civil rights motion of the Sixties, Nineteen Eighties AIDS activism and the Sept. 11 assault.
The works cowl the interval from the Fifties to the current. The exhibition follows a present of earlier, black-and-white pictures from the gathering held at London’s Tate Modern in 2016.
John started gathering pictures after getting sober within the Nineteen Nineties, and he and his husband Furnish now have one of many largest photograph collections in personal palms.
Duncan Forbes, the V&A museum’s head of pictures, mentioned the photographs within the assortment ranged “from the playful and surprising to the contemplative and thoughtful.”
“Fragile Beauty will be a truly epic journey across the recent history of photography, and a celebration of Sir Elton John and David Furnish’s passion for the medium,” he mentioned.
The V&A has a group of greater than 800,000 pictures relationship again to the start of the medium. John and Furnish made a serious donation to the museum’s pictures middle in 2019.
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