Monthly Archives: October 2012

All American. Five Photographic Books about the USA

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All American: Five Photographic Books about the USA A short text by David Campany Modern America has been a project, an experiment. As such, its self-image is a matter of some importance. The critic Van Wyck Brooks once wrote of … Continue reading

‘William Klein’s Way’

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        184 pp., 196 color illustrations, 11½x8” Buy from the Tate website Abrams book website David Campany’s essay ‘William Klein’s Way’ introduces the book. It is also published in Italian in William Klein: Il Mondo a Modo Suo … Continue reading

‘Brighton’

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‘Brighton’ is a very short text written  for a four publication set produced by Preston is My Paris as the outcome of the FIND project at Brighton Photo Fringe 2012.  An assembled archive of 192 images is split over the … Continue reading

William Klein: Paintings Etc.

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Contains the essay ‘Ninety Seconds’, by David Campany. The book features Klein’s early paintings from the late 1940s and ’50s, unseen abstract silver-gelatin photos, magazine covers, ‘Lettrist’ paintings of the 1960s, designs and drawings for films, street photographs and murals. Read … Continue reading