David Campany is a writer and artist, and Reader in Photography at the University of Westminster, London. He was co-founder of the organization Photoforum, which brings together theorists and practitioners working in the photographic arts. His published work includes essays in
Rewriting Conceptual Art
, ed. Jon Bird and Michael Newman (Reaktion, 1999);
Postcards on Photography: Photorealism and the Reproduction
(Cambridge Darkroom, 1998);
Cruel and Tender: the Real in the Twentieth Century Photograph
(Tate, 2003) and
Stillness and Time: Photography and the Moving Image
(Photoforum/Photoworks, 2006). He is the editor of the anthology
The Cinematic
(Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2007) and the author of
Photography and Film
(Reaktion, 2007).