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Category: Photography

Television Lies!

This is an extract of a longer essay commissioned by Karol Hordziej and Daniel Muzyczuk for a book to accompany … More

Communism, Poland, Solidarity, Television

Visual Ethics After Communism

This theme issue of Martor examines the ethical questions raised by the publication and display of images and objects associated … More

The Photographer in the Hall of Mirrors

This is an extract of an long essay on the work of photographer Nicolas Grospierre. It will appear in a … More

Mise en abyme, photo series

An Essay on Decay

This article appeared in the first issue of Disegno in 2011. ♦ Earlier this year the mummified body of a … More

decay, entropy, Ruins

Love Among the Ruins

In autumn 2008 Kobas Laksa and Nicolas Grospierre invited visitors to the Venice Architecture Biennale to stay at the Hotel … More

Foks, LIbera, Ruins, Wajda, Warsaw, Warsaw Uprising

Life in the Shadow of Monuments: Philippe Chancel’s North Korea

I wrote this piece for the Photographers’ Gallery in London a few years ago. Philippe Chancel’s images of North Korea … More

Chancel, North Korea, Photographers' Gallery, photography

Socialist recreation? Amateur film and photography in the People’s Republic of Poland and East Germany

This piece was published in a book which is very difficult to find, so I have posted my contribution below.

Amater Photography, Communism, East Germany, Kieślowski, photography, Walter Benjamin

This is a notebook and an archive. I use this blog to sketch thoughts into words and to post articles and reviews already in print which are difficult to source or in translation. If you are interested to look further, you'll mostly find writing on graphic design and/or Eastern Europe here. You'll need to scroll down the page. There are some downloads and links in the menu above.

- David

You can email me at crowleyd[at]staff.ncad.ie

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