Book Launch—David Campany: On Photographs
Where: International Center of Photography (ICP)
79 Essex St.
212-857-0000 Price: $5
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Join us virtually for the US launch of ICP Managing Director of Programs David Campany’s new publication, “On Photographs” (MIT Press). Campany will take the audience through the conception and making of this eclectic exploration of photography during this celebratory online program. Reserve your signed copy of On Photographs ($34.95) at ICP’s shop.
About On Photographs
Proceeding not by chronology or genre or photographer, Campany’s selection unfolds according to its own logic. We see work by Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Helen Levitt, Garry Winogrand, Louise Lawler, Andreas Gursky, and Rineke Dijkstra. There is fashion photography by William Klein, one of Vivian Maier’s contact sheets, and a carefully staged scene by Gregory Crewdson, as well as images culled from magazines and advertisements. Each of the 120 photographs is accompanied by Campany’s lucid and incisive commentary, considering the history of that image and its creator, interpreting its content and meaning, and connecting and contextualizing it within visual culture. Image by image, we absorb and appreciate Campany’s complex yet playful take on photography and its history.
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