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'Making Connections' and 'Portfolio Section'

Chapter and author's artwork

This book (edited by Neil Campbell and Alfredo Cramerotti) brings together photographic and film practice alongside critical texts and commentary which, from a variety of standpoints, interrogate where photography and film converge and diverge, reflecting on artists’ ability to be creative and challenging in the hybrid spaces between such forms.

Davies research contribution: Co-Curation and Selection (with Alfredo Cramerotti) of Portfolio Section. Interview with Martin Parr, Talking Pictures part of Brief Encounters section. Associate Editor of Chapter Tesseract by Rachel Moore. Work included in portfolio section: The Changing Face, by Coates / Davies.

The collection of essays builds on these ideas chapter by chapter, combining examples of photographic work, critical essays, extracts from interviews with practitioners, and a detailed bibliography. Originally based on ‘Photocinema’ the FORMAT Photography Festival Conference 2009 (Chaired by Huw Davies) it is structured around revised presentations and extended critical pieces from the original conference, as well as specially commissioned interviews with other artists. In so doing, it engages with the rich history of creative interaction between the moving and the still image, whilst tracing elements of their ever-changing and productive relationship.

‘Photocinema’, extends the current interest in the imbricated histories of film and photography through precise practitioners’ examples, those that move between practice and theory and those with a more critical perspective

These include the work of photographers who have crossed back and forth between the two media in their practice, in addition to the likes of Victor Burgin, Eric Baudelaire and Hollis Frampton, who explore conceptual themes about time, memory, space, as well as architectural, literary and cinematic metaphors. Together these essays and images represent an important addition to the existing literature on cinema and photography, testing its boundaries and provoking future research and practice.