David Campany

So present, so invisible: Conversations on photography

David Campany, Jeff Wall, D Mills

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English

Contrasto
05 July 2018

Photographs: collections; Special kinds of photography

"There is a lot of casual talk about photography, just as there is a lot of casual photography. But there have always been articulate voices, able to see past the obvious, around the distracting, and through the trivial to say something about the more profound aspects of the medium. Many of those voices have belonged to image makers.

The critic and exhibitions curator David Campany, often invited by photographers and museums to write about their practice during his career, talked with world-class artists - Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Daniel Blaufuks, Robert Cumming, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lewis Baltz, John Stezaker, Paul Graham, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Jeff Wall, Lucas Blalock, Susan Meiselas, Victor Burgin, William Klein, Stephen Shore - to interrogate them about their past, the various creative phases they crossed over, and above all their rapport with photographic medium and reality. That is why these conversations transcend the dimension of the simple interview to reveal the close connection between art and author photography, between photography and the world, between thought and speech.

Because, as noted by the author in his introduction, ""whether long or short, nearly all these conversations were open-ended. Neither party knew where we might be going or where things would end up. For me, that is always the real value of a conversation, as opposed to an interview (or a questionnaire). There is risk and excitement, a sense of mutual exploration and speculation""."

By: David Campany
Contributions by: Jeff Wall, D Mills
Imprint: Contrasto
Country of Publication: Italy
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 149mm,
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9788869657412
ISBN 10: 8869657418
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 05 July 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Campany is a curator, writer and educator, based in London. His previous books include Walker Evans: The Magazine Work, The Open Road: Photography and the American Road Trip and A Handful of Dust, each of which was accompanied by an exhibition. Awards received by Campany include the ICP Infinity Award and The Kraszna-Kraus Book Award.