Art and Photography, David Company’s narrative on developments in the history of photography

Art Service of Iran Book News Agency (IBNA); David Company, prominent author and researcher in the field of photography, is one of the figures who in the last two decades has played an important role in shaping new discourses about the connection between photography, cinema, and contemporary art. Company was born in 1967 and today, as a critic, university lecturer, and curator, he has an effective presence in the theoretical and professional space of photography.

He has taught at the University of Westminster for years, and alongside his teaching activities, he has extensive writing in the field of history and criticism of photography. From journalistic articles to reference books, some of which have become standard texts for visual studies.

The book “Art and Photography” is one of Company’s important works. A book that analyzes the entry of photography into the visual arts space in the twentieth century. In this work, Company shows how photography transforms from a documentary medium into an artistic and conceptual medium, and for this reason, this book is now considered one of the valid sources in contemporary art discussions.

Company’s importance lies in the fact that he does not take the boundaries between disciplines seriously, he sees photography in conversation with cinema, links art history with media theory, and combines aesthetic experience with social and cultural study. For this reason, the audience for his works is not only the community of photographers but a wider range of researchers and artists, those who seek to understand photography not merely as a technique but as a language.

David Company today is one of the influential figures in redefining the position of photography in the contemporary art world; an author whose works have authority from a research perspective and also create motivation and inspiration for artists.

David Company