Photograph, gelatin silver print on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
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Reflections Black Experience
Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2013
adults
architecture
Asian
cinema
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
England
ethnicity
film, music and ballet
film: Frears, Stephen, ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’  1985
formal qualities
Gupta, Sunil
homosexuality
identity
individuals: male
literature and fiction
man
named individuals
Notting Hill, Notting Hill Gate, Coronet Cinema
people
photographic
places
places of entertainment
portraits
race
self-portraits
sex and relationships
social comment
society
UK countries and regions
UK London
<p>Gupta was an active figure in the cultural politics of London in the 1980s, notably through the British Black Arts movement and Autograph ABP (Association of Black Photographers). In his photographs he explores the identity of people who are marginalised due to their race, sexuality or country of origin. <span>Coronet Cinema, Notting Hill Gate</span> is an autobiographical image. It shows a couple (Gupta and his white lover) posing outside a cinema advertising the 1985 film <span>My Beautiful Laundrette</span>, the story of a romance between a south Asian man and a white man.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2018</em></p>
paper print photograph gelatin silver
20 February 2017 – 18 March 2018
2018-03-18
20 February 2017 – 18 March 2018
2018-03-18
2017-02-20
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2017-02-20
Sixty Years
Collection based display
2 April 2018 – 25 March 2019
2019-03-25
2 April 2018 – 25 March 2019
2019-03-25
2018-04-02
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2018-04-02
'Sixty Years' refresh TG.040 - TG.048
Collection based display
11 October 2021 – 3 April 2023
2023-04-03
11 October 2021 – 3 April 2023
2023-04-03
2021-10-11
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2021-10-11
Sixty Years
Collection based display
Untitled from the series Reflections of the Black Experience
image: 287 × 191 mm
Gift Eric and Louise Franck London Collection 2013
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<p>Gupta was an active figure in the cultural politics of London in the 1980s, notably through the British Black Arts movement and Autograph ABP (Association of Black Photographers). In his photographs he explores the identity of people who are marginalised due to their race, sexuality or country of origin. Coronet Cinema, Notting Hill Gate is an autobiographical image. It shows a couple (Gupta and his white lover) posing outside a cinema advertising the 1985 film <i>My Beautiful Laundrette</i>, the story of a romance between an Asian man and a white man.</p>
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adults architecture Asian cinema emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas England ethnicity film: Frears, Stephen, ‘My Beautiful Laundrette’  1985 film, music and ballet formal qualities Gupta, Sunil homosexuality identity individuals: male literature and fiction man named individuals Notting Hill, Notting Hill Gate, Coronet Cinema people photographic places places of entertainment portraits race self-portraits sex and relationships social comment society UK countries and regions UK London