Monthly Archives: May 2015

Between the Snapshot and Staged Photography

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‘Between the Snapshot and Staged Photography’ is an essay by David Campany written the book Photography at MoMA: 1960 to Now, published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 2015 [Author’s note: originally, the essay was to be titled ‘New Narratives’, … Continue reading

LaToya Ruby Frazier speaks with David Campany

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A conversation with LaToya Ruby Frazier, published in Frieze magazine n.172. U.P.M.C. Global Corporation, 2011, silver gelatin print mounted on archival museum cardboard, 50 × 40 cm. Courtesy: All images the artist and Michel Rein, Brussels and Paris Over the past decade, us … Continue reading

Stillness

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‘Stillness’, an essay on the long relationship between still photography and the moving image, appears in the anthology Vision Anew: The Lens and Screen Arts, edited by Adam Bell and Charles H. Traub for the University of California Press, 2015.  

Vision and Beyond: David Batchelder

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‘Vision and Beyond’, an essay written for David Batchelder’s book TIDELAND, Schilt Publishing, September 2015.     Vision and Beyond     David Batchelder made these photographs between 2010 and 2015 in the tidal zone on the beaches that fringe Isle … Continue reading

Bern Porter: Dieresis

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A short appreciation of Bern Porter’s little-known ‘found image’ book Dieresis (1969), published in Aperture magazine n. 219, Summer 2015     Baritone singer in his collegiate glee club. Developer of the cathode ray tube used for television. Part of the … Continue reading

Fast World, Slow Photography: Lewis Baltz

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Fast World, Slow Photography A short essay on the work of Lewis Baltz, written for the  Financial Times Weekend magazine photo supplement, May 16, 2015. Lewis Baltz, ‘North Wall Steelcase 1123 Warner Avenue Tustin, 1974’ from the series The New Industrial Parks near … Continue reading