Cruel and Tender: The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph exhibition, held at Tate Modern, London, and the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, in 2003. A large-scale show of documentary-realist photographs featuring substantial selections of work by Walker Evans, August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and a range of late 20th-century photographers including Bernd and Hiller Becher, Philip-Lorca di Corcia, William Eggleston, Andreas Gursky, Boris Mikhailov, and Fazal Sheikh. It was Tate Modern's first exhibition dedicated wholly to photography. The title referred to Lincoln Kirstein's characterization of Walker Evans's work in the 1930s: ‘Tender cruelty’.
— Robin Lenman
