Here are two very different publicity stills from two very different films: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger’s A Matter of Life and Death (1946), which I watch often, and Robert Bresson’s Mouchette (1967), which I saw only once and will probably never see again. … Continue reading →

A short foreword written by David Campany for Juliet Hacking’s book Photography: the Whole Story. Strictly speaking, the whole story of photography would be an account of every photograph ever taken and every response to it, from that tentative handful made … Continue reading →

 Precedented Photography  By David Campany. First published in Aperture n.206, Spring 2012. Photography’s rambling, unsystematic past is becoming increasingly available to us—not least the history of illustrated printed matter, which is now easily uploaded, accessed and bought via the Internet, and … Continue reading →