Elton's other greatest hits collection: vintage photos from 1920s-'50s
The Tate Modern in London will highlight 191 works collected by flamboyant singer Elton John from a trove of nearly 8,000 rare pieces
London
ELTON John famously collects eccentric eyewear. He is less widely known as a collector of photography - and yet the singer-songwriter owns close to 8,000 pieces dating from 1910 to the present.
Highlights from that collection are being shown at Tate Modern in London. For the next six months, till May 7, The Radical Eye presents 191 works from the 1920s to the 1950s by a hit parade of photographers including Andre Kertesz, Edward Steichen, Man Ray, Irving Penn and Dorothea Lange. (Parts of the collection have been shown at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in 2000-01 and at the Pinchuk Art Centre in Ukraine in 2007.) John and David Furnish, his husband and the collection's co-owner, are in talks with Tate over which works they will make available to the national collections as a "gift or promised gift", said Simon Baker, senior curator of photography at Tate Modern.
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