Rich and Stange began life as an artist’s book about a found photograph. It then became photo-video installation presented at the Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, 2016; and NOKS Independent Art Space Istanbul 5 May- 10 June, 2018. Hand-bound, 46 pages Edition … Continue reading
Walker Evans: the magazine work by David Campany 29 cm x 22 cm 224 pages Hardcover Published by Steidl ISBN: 978-3-86930-259-1 SOLD OUT at Steidl. Some copies available elsewhere. Walker Evans was one of the most important and influential artists of … Continue reading
Softcover with dustjacket 24 cm x 32 cm 100 pages 37 colour and 37 black and white images Price €30.00 £27.50 $35.00 ISBN: 9781907946448 http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/books/72-Gasoline.html Gasoline is also available as an ebook, published by MAPP http://mappeditions.com/publications/gasoline http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pump-action-why-images-of-gas-stations-capture-all-things-american-8810319.html http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2013/09/08/gasoline-the-end-of-oils-innocence/ http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography-blog/2013/sep/26/photography-america-vintage-gas-stations David … Continue reading
‘All or Nothing, Sun in Empty Rooms’, is an essay written for the first major monograph of the work of Sarah Jones, published by Violette Editions in 2013. Every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness – the point where you … Continue reading
184 pp., 196 color illustrations, 11½x8” Buy from the Tate website Abrams book website David Campany’s essay ‘William Klein’s Way’ introduces the book. It is also published in Italian in William Klein: Il Mondo a Modo Suo … Continue reading
Contains the essay ‘Ninety Seconds’, by David Campany. The book features Klein’s early paintings from the late 1940s and ’50s, unseen abstract silver-gelatin photos, magazine covers, ‘Lettrist’ paintings of the 1960s, designs and drawings for films, street photographs and murals. Read … Continue reading
The Time of Chris Killip by David Campany The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right. (Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Scene V.) This is a good moment to look at the … Continue reading
‘In the Frame’ Doug Rickard’s Google Street View project A New American Picture was first exhibited as part of Anonymes: unnamed American in photography and film, the show I co-curated with Diane Dufour at Le Bal, Paris, in 2010. To mark … Continue reading
Photography may have triumphed in art over the last couple of decades, but questions linger as to whether art gets the best out of it. Many artistically minded photographers admit to finding art an interesting place to visit but they … Continue reading
‘Noticing’ is an essay commissioned for Paul Graham’s Hasselblad Award publication 1981 & 2011 (published by MACK in 2012). The book brings together Graham’s first major project A1:The Great North Road with The Present. Noticing by David Campany With the … Continue reading
Jeff Wall’s Picture for Women (1979) marks the transition of photography as contemporary art form from the printed page to the gallery wall. In the photograph a woman looks outward, as if at the viewer; a camera occupies the centre … Continue reading
Boxed, Paperback, 6 Vol., 4.5 x 6 in., 500 pgs, illustrated throughout. ISBN: 9788492498895 This little book is part of the series published by La Fabrica, Madrid. It comes in a box of five other book-length conversations (John Baldessari, … Continue reading
Curated by David Campany Works by Camille Fallet, Mimi Mollica, Xavier Ribas, Eva Stenram, Lillian Wilkie, Tereza Zelenkova and David Campany Few could have failed to notice that much of the current discussion about photography revolves around questions of time, … Continue reading
The inaugural show at Le Bal, co-curated with its Director, Diane Dufour. Through photographs, books, magazines, film and video Anonymes considers America’s long history of depicting and celebrating the anonymous citizen, against its cult of celebrity, fame and individuality. Anonymes … Continue reading
160 pages Paperback Reaktion Books ISBN: 9781861893512 127 illustrations, 40 in colour Chinese translation published by Nanjing University Press Farsi edition: Winner of the Kraszna-Krausz Award, 2009 What did the arrival of cinema do for photography? How did the … Continue reading
The Cinematic, edited by David Campany, is an anthology of essays surveying the rich history of relationships between the moving and the still image in photography and film, tracing their ever-changing dialogue since early modernism. Manifestations of the cinematic in … Continue reading
Written for the book John Divola: Three Acts, Aperture, 2006 Once seen, the work of John Divola is not easily forgotten, particularly his photographs made in disused buildings. There is nothing quite like them in the history of the medium. … Continue reading
‘Safety in Numbness: Some remarks on the problems of “Late Photography”’, first published in David Green ed., Where is the Photograph?, Photoworks/Photoforum, 2003. (Author’s note: although it’s quite old now, I still see this essay cited frequently. Perhaps this is … Continue reading
Art and Photography surveys the major presence of photography at the centre of artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. On its invention, the photograph was considered a purely mechanical, an artless object that could not be included in the fine arts. … Continue reading