In Eyes Dazzle as They Search for the Truth, Iranian artist Amin Yousefi rephotographs images from the 1979 Iranian Revolution, isolating moments when protesters direct their gaze through the lens and toward the viewer. Through the curved halo of a magnifying loupe, Yousefi … Continue reading
Photobooks USA 2000–25 explores how the photobook has emerged as a powerful tool for artists to respond to the forces shaping contemporary life in the United States. Over the past 25 years, this evolution is reflected in the growing number … Continue reading
Robert Cumming was an artist of seemingly limitless skills who took up photography as a way to synthesize them all. He would design, draw, build and then photograph objects, sets and scenarios that were outlandish but somehow logical in their … Continue reading
Some of my photographs are included in curatorial project “A Box of Impressions”, a box-sized exhibition put together by Lou Stoppard and Sarah-Linh Tran for Lemaire, Palais Royal, Paris. The exhibition invites 21 photographers to focus on the themes of … Continue reading
Pages and Walls David Campany on photographic books in the context of exhibitions. Anyone who was around in the late 1990s to experience the Internet’s seemingly unstoppable growth towards cultural domination would have heard loud and repeated declarations of the imminent … Continue reading
Thames & Hudson (UK), MIT Press (USA), Guilio Einaudi Editore (Italy), Eyrolles (France), Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press (China) Publisher’s Summary: In On Photographs, curator and writer David Campany presents an exploration of photography in 120 images. Proceeding not … Continue reading
Ken Russell was best known as an iconoclastic film-maker, but he began with a still camera, aged twenty-three, in 1951. He was therefore slightly older than the Teddy Girls he photographed in January 1955. Born a little before or during … Continue reading
What place does Robert Frank occupy in the history of photography? Is there a before and after The Americans? For many, Frank’s The Americans is one of the pinnacles of twentieth century photography; an expression so original, profound and complete, especially in … Continue reading