Monthly Archives: February 2017

”Working for magazines’ and ‘Works’ for magazines: Walker Evans, the popular press and conceptual art’

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”Working for magazines’ and ‘Works’ for magazines: Walker Evans, the popular press and conceptual art’ is an essay written by David Campany for the exhibition catalogue Walker Evans, edited by Clement Cheroux. The exhibition is presented at the Centre Pompidou, … Continue reading

Stephen Shore and David Campany discuss Luzzara and Paul Strand

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EDITED BY: Laura Gasparini, Alberto Ferraboschi BINDING: Paperback with flaps SIZE: 23 x 28 cm PAGES: 176 ILLUSTRATIONS: 136 LANGUAGE: Italian YEAR: 2017 ISBN: 9788836637027 Stephen Shore in conversation with David Campany David: Stephen, in 1993 you were invited to … Continue reading

Domestic Disorder: Re-viewing the Photographs of Robert Cumming

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Domestic Disorder: Re-viewing the Photographs of Robert Cumming by David Campany The film director Alfred Hitchcock used to complain about the typical dream sequences in movies: so often they were hazy and out of focus, all gauzy filters and slow … Continue reading

Nothing has changed. Everything has changed. Stray thoughts on Peter Fraser’s ‘Mathematics’

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‘Nothing has changed. Everything has changed. Stray thoughts on Peter Fraser’s Mathematics‘ is an essay commissioned for Peter Fraser’s book Mathematics, published by Skinnerboox, 2017.     Nothing has changed. Everything has changed. Stray thoughts on Peter Fraser’s Mathematics David Campany … Continue reading

USSR in Construction no. 12: The Baltic-White Sea Canal. Photographed and Designed by Alexander Rodchenko

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FOAM n. 47, contains a commentary by David Campany on Issue 12 (1933) of USSR in Construction, the Stalinist propaganda magazine. This issue was dedicated to the building the Baltic White Sea Canal, and was photographed and designed by Alexander Rodchenko.   … Continue reading

Lewis Baltz and David Campany in Conversation

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This survey book of the work of Lewis Baltz contains a long conversation recorded shortly before his death. It covers whole of the Baltz’s working life, from his earliest ‘topographic’ projects in California in the 1960s, 70s and 80s to the very different … Continue reading

Under, Outside and Between: the elusive art of Ed van der Elsken

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‘Under, Outside and Between: the elusive art of Ed van der Elsken’ is an essay written for Camera in Love, the catalogue of the Stedelijk Museum’s major survey of the work of Ed van der Elsken. The essay looks at … Continue reading