This is a music playlist that Francesca & I put together for the launch of issue two of our magazine Le Chauffage which revolved around the now antiquated format of the photo essay. All the tracks in the playlist are about photography, too.
An excerpt from the letter from the editors written by Emile Rubino explains:
The second issue of Le Chauffage contains photographs and texts, photographs of text, photographs as text and vice versa. Loosely thinking through the format of The Photo Essay celebrated by John Szarkowski in an eponymously titled exhibition at MoMA in 1965, this issue considers some of the artistic possibilities that can be found in such an archaic and historically male-dominated form.
Many of the contributions that make up this second issue are not photo essays per se. But each one of them considers the printed page as a space in its own right. The magazine becomes an interior where words and images entertain a malleable and distinctly porous relationship. At times, it is also a space where artists and writers from different cities were invited to meet and collaborate.
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