The Great Acceleration, the first solo institutional exhibition of world renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky’s work in New York City in over twenty years, reveals the depth of his investigation into the human alteration of natural landscapes around the world, showing … Continue reading
Book accompanying the exhibition Edward Burtynsky: The Great Acceleration at the International Center of Photography, June 19-September 28, 2025 Essay by David Campany, plus reproductions of all 72 works included in the exhibition. A retrospective of Edward Burtynsky’s photography from … Continue reading
June 3, 2025 We recently sat down with David Campany to discuss a rather beautiful book he edited for us last year: Robert Cumming’s Very Pictorial Conceptual Art. Cumming, who emerged in the 1970s Los Angeles art scene, was a quietly … Continue reading
Intricate botanical forms, Baroque one moment and science fiction the next, appear to sprout and multiply. Drained of greens and the colours of flowers, the forms intensify and estrange our expectations of plant life. This is the work of British … Continue reading
As I was beginning to gather my thoughts for this essay, I showed an earlier publication of Beatrice Helg’s work to an artist friend. She looked at it slowly. “These are extraordinary sculptures and installations, and they have been documented … Continue reading
Sebastião Salgado, who died earlier this year, stands among the most significant photographers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. There was an unmistakable power to his imagery and the moral force that underscored it. The photographs were an insistence … Continue reading
In this essay, David Campany considers historical and contemporary photographic representations of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1989, Hiroshi Sugimoto looked out over the Mediterranean Sea from Cassis to make one of his now-familiar seascape photographs. Shot from an elevated vantage point, … Continue reading