Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography

A corridor on printing methods joins the two halves, with a working darkroom where Tate runs workshops. In the printmaking section, pairs of the same photograph, including Peter Henry Emerson's A Norfolk Boat-Yard (1886), show how much the printing process changes a picture.

Pictorialism, from the 1880s on, was the first big push to treat photography as art rather than record, told here as a global story through 200 prints by more than 80 photographers. You go from Emma Barton's The Awakening (1903) through camera clubs in Shanghai, South Korea and Singapore to Lionel Wendt's solarised portraits and Steichen, Strand and Weston crossing over into Modernism.

Time Out gave it three stars: the photographs mostly compelling, the connections between them less so, and by the final room it's hard to say where pictorialism ends. It's on Level 3, Natalie Bell Building. Tickets are £20 (£5 for 16–25s on Tate Collective); the £5 audio guide plays on your phone, so bring headphones. Open until 21:00 on Fridays and Saturdays.