#22 With Simon Baker at the helm, Tate becomes an unlikely champion of photography

摘要

Two days before their seminal exhibition opened in early October, William Klein and Daido Moriyama were brought together in the dining room overlooking the Thames at Tate Modern, surrounded by a group of VIPs - friends, collectors, trustees and guests. But when the director of Tate, Sir Nicholas Serota, took the floor, it was to praise Simon Baker, the man he hired in 2009 as the institution's first curator of photography and international art, commending him for his work in constructing the museum's photographic strategy. Baker - for whom it was the first major show he had seen through from beginning to end - bowed his head modestly.