#ICP Concerned: Global Images for Global Crisis: Global Images for Global Crisis

by David Campany

Overview

A diary for a world-wide pandemic, #ICPConcerned captures 263 days in 2020 recorded by 820 photographers curated from over 60,000 submissions. This is the book form of an exhibition at the International Center of Photography Museum (ICP) that became a digital phenomenon in lockdown.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943876228
Publisher:	G Editions LLC
Publication date:	10/19/2021
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

David Campany is a curator, writer, and Managing Director of Programs at the International Center of Photography, New York. He has written nine books and over two hundred essays for monographs and museums. He regularly contributes to Frieze, Aperture, Source and Tate magazines. He has received the ICP Infinity Award, the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, the Alice Award, a Deutscher Fotobuchpreis, and the Royal Photographic Society award for his writing.

Editorial Reviews

★ 09/06/2021

New York’s International Center of Photography delivers an evocative “living chronicle” of the 2020 pandemic in this sensational assemblage. Culled from more than 60,000 images that were submitted for the museum’s #ICPConcerned project—which began in March 2020 as a global open call for photos of others’ experience of the pandemic—this collection hauntingly captures the world-altering events that unfolded around the Covid-19 crisis. What’s striking is the book’s freewheeling nature; as Campany, ICP’s managing director of programs, writes, “Every genre and mode of photography is here.... These are strange times, with no guarantees as to what kind of image is effective, or for whom.” Images of deserted streets and masked, weary-eyed pedestrians are juxtaposed with instances of quiet beauty, such as a woman bonding with her dog and frontline workers tending to patients. Special focus is also given to other headlines of 2020, including, most notably, the Black Lives Matter protests (“I watched through my lens as people of all different backgrounds and colors came together,” one photographer recalls). The result is an affecting reminder that humanity can be found in the unlikeliest of places. This stunning work deserves celebration. (Oct.)

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