Julian Germain & Charles Snelling, ‘For Every Minute You Are Angry You Lose Sixty Seconds of Happiness’
Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, Thames & Hudson, 2023
Collaboration: a Potential History of Photography, edited by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Wendy Ewald, Susan Meiselas, Leigh Raiford, and Laura Wexler.
The book explores themes such as coercion and cooperation, friendship and exploitation, shared interests and competition, and rivalry or antagonistic partnership. Collaboration foregrounds key issues facing photography, including gender, race, and societal hierarchies/divisions—and their role in shaping and reshaping identities and communities, and provoking resistance or conformity.
The photographs are presented alongside quotes, testimonies, and short texts offering perspectives on the array of themes, geographies, contexts, and events. The editors introduce each cluster of projects by providing a framework to understand and decode the complex politics, temporalities, and potentialities of photography. Collaborationreconstructs the infrastructure of photography as a collaborative practice and offers a pedagogical tool for practitioners and scholars of photography.
David Campany contributes a short text on Julian Germain & Charles Snelling’s ‘For Every Minute You Are Angry You Lose Sixty Seconds of Happiness’