So present, so invisible. Conversations on photography PDF

“So-called political activism and street photography were back-burnered. For the first time in history, almost all artists went to art school.” Photography became professionalised, as the Dusseldorf School and the Pictures Generation pushed gallery photography away from the street and reportage, and towards high-production commercial imagery, cinema and history painting.

Photography has become so static – but if I pull the rug from under the feet of the viewer, present an image that cannot be made sense of, then I have done my work. I may not always succeed, but I want to see if photography can transport me into the places that literature, music and poetry can take us. So Present, So Invisible: Conversations on Photography [Campany, David, Wall, Jeff, Meiselas, Susan] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.

David Campany is a writer, curator of exhibitions and an artist. He has published several books on photography, cinema and art, and over a hundred essays. 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.

“Photography is no longer only painting with light – it's basically involving all these different mediums such as sculpture, audio and painting. It's all being intertwined or So Present, So Invisible: Conversations on Photography David Campany. Hardcover. $24.69. Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art it is also affectionate. Film may be the dominant medium, but it is nevertheless in thrall to photography; Photography and Cinema doesn't overstate cinema's supremacy, but it does suggest that,

So Present, So Invisible. Conversations on Photography. Published by Contrasto, 2018. Italian lanuage edition, Così presente, così invisibile. “There is a lot of ...