Monthly Archives: January 2023

Rules and Exceptions

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David Campany’s essay ‘Rules and Exceptions’ appears in Where the Land Meets the Sea by Damien Hirst, HENI Publishing, 2023 ISBN: 978-1-912122-77-6 Dimensions: 360 × 290 mm Format: Hardback Extent: 204 pp Illustrations: 545 A vibrant catalogue of Damien Hirst’s Where … Continue reading

Seeing Sweet: a Pink Suite

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Seeing Sweet: a Pink Suite David Campany Here are some thoughts about colour, black & white, and pink in the photographs of William Eggleston and Anastasia Samoylova. In the twentieth century, several difficulties slowed the artistic development of colour photography. … Continue reading

Something Lost, Something Gained

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‘Something Lost, Something Gained’ is an essay written for Giulia Parlato’s book Diachronicles. 24×30 cm / 120 pages 500 copies / Soft cover with Swiss binding Design by Nicolas Polli Text by David Campany Published in February 2023 ISBN: 979-12-80177-21-6 … Continue reading

William Klein: YES

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Written by David Campany and published on the occasion of the Willian Klein retrospective he curated for the International Center of Photography, New York, this is a landmark publication encompassing Klein’s long lifetime of creativity across photography, filmmaking, painting, book … Continue reading

How William Klein wowed Orson Welles, influenced Federico Fellini and anticipated reality TV

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William Klein won his first camera in a poker game in 1946. Every image he made was a little pokerish: street-wise, bluffing, anticipating, but intuitive and spontaneous too. In a career spanning seven decades he made some of the most … Continue reading