Sandwiched between endpapers featuring the 1938 Photogram, Stars, by artist Alexander Rodchenko, 120 photographs by known and anonymous artists reflect how one can think about images - underscoring their uncontainable hybrid nature. His compelling text ignites curiosity, excavates and illuminates intention and process, inviting the reader/viewer to ponder what and how they see. 

In this book group, David Campany discusses, among other things:

The paradox of the malleability of an image and it’s fixed singularity

The boundary-defying work of women artists who have been largely ignored by traditional canons of art history

The symbiotic relationship of text and image

Scale and materiality

The experimental spirit of the Bauhaus

The meaning between photos 

The muteness of images

Photoshop as a beauty parlor

References/Resources from this episode:

Traveling exhibition: https://davidcampany.com/a-handful-of-dust/

Visual IN Dialog https://davidcampany.com/da-dialogue/

www.instagram.com/dialogue_aandd/,

Roland Barthes essay Leaving the Movie Theater, 

Victor Burgin essay, Seeing Sense

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