Monthly Archives: December 2014

Victor Burgin: projective

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projectivewritings on the work of Victor Burgin Contributors: Gülru Çakmak, David Campany, Homay King, D. N. Rodowick and Anthony Vidler 2014, 172 pages, 31 reproductions, 17 x 24 cm. ISBN : 978-2-94015-965-9 ; 24 CHF / 20 euros. Publisher: MAMCO, Geneva Includes an extended conversation between … Continue reading

‘Photography, Encore’

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Photography, Encore. An essay written for the book Time Present: Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, 2014 For the better part of a century now, it has been customary to begin an essay about contemporary photography with reference either to … Continue reading

Three books for 2014 (or perhaps 1914)

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These are the books that remain in my mind and on my desk at the close of 2014. All explore the depiction of conflict. Shooting Range: Photography and the Great War, Inge Henneman ed., FotoMuseum Antwerp. The scholar and curator Inge Henneman … Continue reading

All the World’s a Stage

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‘All the World’s a Stage’ by David Campany When patrons visited the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazieto to see Leonardo da Vinci’s progress on The Last Supper, very often they found the artist was not there. He would be out … Continue reading