JOE TILSON AT 90 (个展)

On a recent train journey, I overheard a woman, inspired by an especially picturesque landscape, remark to her travelling companion: ‘I should get a photo of that…where’s my phone?’ There is nothing immediately unusual about this in 2018. Though in no history of photography that I’ve ever encountered has Alexander Graham Bell’s name appeared. Despite this, for the past decade, the most common implement used to make photographs is indeed a telephone. And the perception is that the camera is in the phone, not the other way round. Nobody ever says, ‘I need to make a call, where’s my camera’. – 在最近的一次火车旅行中，我偶然听到一位受风景特别优美启发的妇女对她的旅伴说：“我应该拍张照片……我的手机在哪里？”在2018，这件事没有什么不寻常的地方。虽然我从未见过摄影史，但亚历山大·格拉汉姆·贝尔的名字却出现了。尽管如此，在过去的十年中，最常用的制作照片的工具实际上是一部电话。感觉是相机在电话里，而不是反过来。没有人会说：“我需要打个电话，我的相机在哪里。”