David Campany A Handful Of Dust

• 歷史的起點：書本的敘事假設現代歷史始於 1922 年 10 月。當時法國前衛雜誌發表了一張由曼·雷（Man Ray）拍攝、馬塞爾·杜象（Marcel Duchamp）放在工作室累積了數月灰塵的玻璃藝術品照片。這張照片起初被戲稱為「從飛機上俯瞰的風景」，後來被正式命名為**《塵埃培養》（Dust Breeding）**。它既是抽象藝術，又是寫實紀錄，成為全書探討的起點。
• 書名的隱喻：書名「A Handful of Dust」取自同樣在 1922 年 10 月發表的 T.S. 艾略特名詩《荒原》（The Waste Land）中的經典詩句：「我將在一抔塵埃中讓你看到恐懼。」
• 現代秩序的反叛者：David Campany 透過此書指出，現代社會極力排斥、試圖保持乾淨和秩序的「塵埃」，其實是不可阻擋的客觀存在。它是歷史、衝突與時間流逝的最終見證者。 [, 2, 3]

• 大師作品：收錄包括 Man Ray、Edward Ruscha、Jeff Wall、Gerhard Richter、John Divola 和 Sophie Ristelhueber 等當代藝術巨擘的作品。
• 獨特裝幀：MACK 出版的第一版採用了非常獨特的**「書中書」（Book-in-book）**裝幀結構， binding 內包含兩本軟精裝冊，其中一本可以拉出並重新嵌入，設計極具巧思。 [1, 2, 3]

"A Handful of Dust" is a classic in the history of photographic vision planned and written by David Campany, a famous British photographer, curator and writer. This book is not a collection of works by a single photographer, but a grand and speculative "dust visual history". It originally originated from the exhibition of the same name planned by Campany for the Le Bal Art Center in Paris, and then first published by MACK Press in 2015. (And the second edition was launched in 2017).

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The core and thought of the work

The starting point of history: The narrative of the book assumes that modern history began in October 1922. At that time, the French avant-garde magazine published a photo of a glass artwork taken by Man Ray and placed by Marcel Duchamp in the studio that had accumulated dust for months. This photo was originally nicknamed "the scenery overlooked from the plane" and was later officially named **Dust Breeding**. It is both an abstract art and a realistic record, which has become the starting point for the discussion of the whole book.

Metaphor of the title of the book: The title of the book "A Handful of Dust" is taken from T.S., also published in October 1922. A classic verse in Eliot's famous poem The Waste Land: "I will show you fear in a dust."

Rebels of modern order: David Campany pointed out through this book that the "dust" that modern society strongly rejects and tries to maintain cleanliness and order is actually an unstoppable objective existence. It is the ultimate witness of history, conflict and the passage of time.

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Content and inclusion lineup

Campany weaves macro historical events with micro images, spanning military aerial photography, the "black storm" sandstorm in the United States in the 1930s, Mussolini's dusty car during his lifetime, and extending to the Iraq War. The book systematically gathers avant-garde tabloids of the twentieth century, anonymous news photos, postcards, movie screenshots, and the classics of many masters:

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Master works: including Man Ray, Edward Ruscha, Jeff Wall, Gerhard Richter, John Divola and Sophie Ristelhueber and other contemporary art giants Works.

Unique binding: The first edition published by MACK adopts a very unique **book-in-book** binding structure. The binding contains two soft-cover books, one of which can be pulled out and re-embedded. The design is very ingenious.