The Still Point of the Turning World: Between Film and Photography
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- q184y
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Kehrer Verlag
- ISBN
- 9783868288247
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- In this curated exhibition and book, ‘The Still Point of the Turning World: Between Film and Photography’, Campany and co-curator and editor Joachim Naudts focus on practices in which a photographer turns towards film or a video artist turns towards photography.
Drawing on Campany’s research of the collection of the FOMU, and interest in the cinematic image, as explored in his books The Cinematic (2007) and Photography and Cinema (2008), the exhibition addresses alternative views of the photographic image. Seen through the innovations of cinematography, for example, Campany argues the whole map of the medium, the exploration of light, composition, visual rhetoric,
and communication has always been far more advanced in cinema than in still photography, especially when it comes to colour. In this project, photography’s relation to the appearance of the everyday and the process of that appearance contrasts the photographic image as an essentially still and silent form, with no movement, no sound, no time. So, the book and exhibition ask the viewer what happens if you add one of these missing elements? What beauty can be found on the borders between? What alternative histories can be argued?
As with all of Campany’s research outputs, this project also explores the format of the photobook, and in this respect, images bleed out off the page to suggest the screen in a darkened room. In series, the browser experiences uninterrupted images that resonate with the moving frames of film. Meanwhile the exhibition includes both the actual moving images as video-installations and photographic works as stills. The exhibition includes the work of 24 international artists, including historical figures from the FOMU collection, and a range of contemporary artists from the Americas and Europe and South Asia. The publication includes texts by David Campany, Joachim Naudts and Elviera Velghe.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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