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Craigie Horsfield

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Craigie Horsfield combines photography, film, and large-scale installation to examine how images constitute collective memory and ethical encounter. Since the 1970s, he has treated the documentary photograph not as evidence but as a site demanding sustained attention, often layering photographs with text, sound, and architectural intervention. His immersive installations resist the conventional separation between artwork and viewer, instead proposing photography as a practice of responsibility and temporal entanglement.

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Artworks (18)

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El Hierro Conversation

2002 · Four-channel video installation, color, sound

Overall: 288 × 275 in. (731.5 × 698.5 cm)

Whitney Museum of American Art

Bankside Power Station, London. December 1994

2000 · Photograph, black and white, gelatin silver print, on paper

unconfirmed: 591 x 492 mm

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E. Horsfield. Well Street, East London. August 1987

1995 · Photograph on paper

image: 1754 x 2535 mm

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E. Horsfield, Well Street, East London, March 1986

1992 · Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper on aluminium

image: 2132 x 1319 mm

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Cage, Bronowicka, Krakow, April 1979

1990 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 139.4 × 140 cm (54 15/16 × 55 1/8 in.); Frame: 153 × 153.7 × 3.8 cm (60 1/4 × 60 9/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hackney Road, East London, December 1983

1990 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 136.8 × 136.8 cm (53 7/8 × 53 7/8 in.); Frame: 150.5 × 150.5 × 1.6 cm (59 5/16 × 59 5/16 × 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Klub Pod Jaszcurami, Rynek Glowny, Krakow, May 1974

1990 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 141.3 × 139.7 cm (55 11/16 × 55 in.); Frame: 153 × 153.7 × 3.8 cm (60 1/4 × 60 9/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Balben Path, East London, November 1988

1990 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 138.4 × 138.7 cm (54 1/2 × 54 5/8 in.); Frame: 153 × 153 × 2 cm (60 1/4 × 60 1/4 × 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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