From Francis Bacon, Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Richard Hamilton, Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol, many major 20th-century artists used photography as source material for powerful portrait paintings.

Since the 1960s, these works of art tended to reflect upon identity, fame and the tension between photography’s frozen images and the passage of time. The Holburne Museum’s exhibition brings rarely seen pieces from private collections together with loans from major institutions to unpack the ways artists can use photography as a source and as subject matter.