On Photographs | David Campany

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What shapes our response to a photograph? Where does the meaning we ascribe to it come from? And how important to our reading of it are the photographer s intentions? In a dazzling example of photography writing an exploration of the photographic medium through 120 images, some familiar, some surprising David Campany shows us that how we think about photographs is just as important as what we think about them.Rejecting the conventions of chronology and the heightened status afforded to classics in traditional accounts of the history of the medium, Campany s selection of photographs is an…