
Camera Recording its Own Condition (7 Apertures, 10 Speeds, 2 Mirrors)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1971
- Dimensions
- image: 2174 x 1832 mm (upper panel: 1075 x 1832 mm , bottom panel: 1075 x 1832 mm)
- Collection
- Tate
- Artist
- John Hilliard
Artist

Photography
John Hilliard is a British photographer and conceptual artist born in 1945 whose practice interrogates the indexical nature of the photograph itself. Working primarily with color and black-and-white film since the 1970s, he employs systematic intervention in the photographic process to expose how meaning shifts through framing, exposure, and sequence. His work sits at the intersection of conceptual art and photography, treating the medium as a site of linguistic and perceptual instability rather than transparent documentation.
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‘Facade’ and ‘Flight of Happiness’
1982 · Photograph, colour, on paper and board
Langdale Fell, Motion Frozen/Frozen Motion
1979 · Photograph, black and white, on board and transfer lettering
Easing Herself Up...The Illness was not serious...As she lay there, not moving
1976 · Chromogenic prints, printed 2014
Depression. Jealousy. Aggression
1975 · Chromogenic prints, printed 2014
Sixty Seconds of Light
1970 · 12 photographs, black and white, on paper
Record
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- John Hilliard
- Year
- 1971
- Dimensions
- image: 2174 x 1832 mm (upper panel: 1075 x 1832 mm , bottom panel: 1075 x 1832 mm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1971-219470
Source
- Collection
- Tate
- Source
- tate
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified




