Screenprint and 12 photographs, colour, on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
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Daguerres Soup
Purchased 1977
Daguerre, Louis
emotions, concepts and ideas
fish
food and drink
formal qualities
fruit, tomato
named individuals
objects
people
photographic
soup
vegetable, carrot
vegetable, lettuce
<p>The title of this work refers to Louis Daguerre, one of the nineteenth-century inventors of photography. The soup concocted in his name is represented by a chart of its ingredients. However, these ingredients are themselves photographs, whether of 'real' vegetables or of fish made of tissue paper. A label presents the work as if it were a museum exhibit, implying that it belongs to the distant past, perhaps even to Daguerre's era. Although the soup can never be eaten, the photographic images survive in a state of pristine freshness long after 'real' vegetables would have rotted away.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique screenprint 12 photographs colour
10 October 2001 – 20 April 2003
2003-04-20
10 October 2001 – 20 April 2003
2003-04-20
2001-10-10
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2001-10-10
Classified
Collection based display
20 November 2015 – 12 March 2017
2017-03-12
20 November 2015 – 14 February 2016
2016-02-14
2015-11-20
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
23 March 2016 – 11 September 2016
2016-09-11
2016-03-23
MMK 2 Museum für Modern Kunst (Frankfurt, Germany)
22 October 2016 – 12 March 2017
2017-03-12
2016-10-22
Centre Pompidou, Metz (Metz, France)
2015-11-20
An Imagined Museum: works from the Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections
Exhibition
20 November 2015 – 27 March 2017
2017-03-27
23 March 2016 – 11 September 2016
2016-09-11
2016-03-23
MMK 2 Museum für Modern Kunst (Frankfurt, Germany)
21 October 2016 – 27 March 2017
2017-03-27
2016-10-21
Centre Pompidou, Metz (Metz, France)
2015-11-20
An Imagined Museum: works from the Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections
Loan-out
Daguerre’s Soup
support: 530 × 520 mm
frame: 540 × 525 × 30 mm
Purchased 1977
<p>The title of this work refers to Louis Daguerre, one of the nineteenth-century inventors of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/photograph" title="Glossary definition for 'Photograph'"><span>photography</span></a>. The soup concocted in his name is represented  by a chart of its ingredients. However, these ingredients are themselves photographs, whether of 'real' vegetables or of fish made of tissue paper. A label presents the work as if it were  a museum exhibit, implying that it belongs to  the distant past, perhaps even to Daguerre's era. Although the soup can never be eaten, the photographic images survive in a state of pristine freshness long after 'real' vegetables would have rotted away. </p>
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2004-09-08T00:00:00
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Daguerre, Louis emotions, concepts and ideas fish food and drink formal qualities fruit, tomato named individuals objects people photographic soup vegetable, carrot vegetable, lettuce