The photographic image is essentially still and silent. No movement, no sound, no time. What happens if you add one of these missing elements? The exhibition The Still Point of the Turning World: Between Film and Photography focuses on practices in which a … Continue reading
‘Image Ventriloquism and the Visual Primer’ is an essay written by David Campany for the book Thomas Ruff, published on the occasion of an exhibition of Ruff’s work at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, 21 September 2017 – 21 January 2018 Paperback: … Continue reading
Tod Papageorge, Dr. Blankman’s New York – Kodachromes 1966–1967 Afterword by David Campany. Book design by Tod Papageorge and Gerhard Steidl. 136 pages, 60 color photographs, four-color process Hardcover € 45.00 / £ 40.00 / US$ 50.00 ISBN 978-3-95829-108-9 Cover of … Continue reading
‘The Hook’ is an essay written for Txema Salvans’s book of photographs The Waiting Game II, published by RM, Spain, 2017. ‘Fishing’ has been a familiar metaphor for photography for a long time now. ‘Hunting’ too, describing the street photographer … Continue reading
Published by MACK English language second edition available. The French edition , DUST. Histoires de poussière D’après Man Ray et Marcel Duchamp, is out of print. a Handful of Dust is David Campany’s speculative history of the last century, and a visual … Continue reading
Photographs are unruly, anarchic things. They never do quite what you expect. This may appear an odd claim, given that most photos seem to be so obvious, clichéd even. Don’t they perform reliably enough in advertising, documentary, and the … Continue reading
East/West, a two-volume book of photographs by Harry Gruyaert, includes an introductory essay by David Campany. The book brings together photographs made in Los Angeles and Las Vegas in 1982, with photographs made in Moscow in 1989. Published by Textuel (French), … Continue reading
Beneath the Street – Helen Levitt’s Subway Photographs by David Campany Helen Levitt’s pictures haunt like intimate ghosts – ever present, never forceful, curious, receptive. The photographer herself confessed to being “inarticulate”, and rarely discussed the images she made in … Continue reading