Ewing, William A.

reGeneration, reGeneration2, Out of focus: photography

Ewing, W.A., Herschdorfer, N. & Blaser, J-C. (2005) reGeneration, 50 photographers of tomorrow. London: Thames & Hudson.

Ewing, W.A. & Herschdorfer, N. (2010) reGeneration2, tomorrow’s photographers today. London: Thames & Hudson.

Ewing, W.A. (2012) Out of focus: photography. London: Booth-Clibbon Editions.

Names in capital letters are not a form of endorsement — that’s the way they are printed.

reGeneration, 50 photographers of tomorrow

reGeneration2, tomorrow’s photographers today

Out of focus: photography

The list is in silly colour, pink on pinkish-grey and so will not scan. I’ll have to type them.

Ewing has written an introduction and notes on the artists. The intro provides quite an amusing view on the 2012 state of photography, describing it as a ‘world with continents, countries, extremely varied terrain, unsettled lands, over-populated areas, and boundaries that are vigorously contested’.

He defines the ‘continent of Commercia’, which includes the ‘wealthiest Kingdom of Advertising’ ruled by the Professionals. The inhabitants have little patience with
‘the dour people of Documentaria’ whose noblest tribe is the Photojournalists who have a ‘deep faith in Truth’.
Both realms are ‘united in their disdain of the Amateurs, who inhabit a continent so vast it has never been properly mapped, let alone explored. Anarchy reigns in Amateuria’ inhabited by ‘a savage folk’ who believe that ‘no rite or ceremony should go unrecorded, though the records are immediately lost or forgotten’.
In Artistica, a ‘small continent on top of the world, a republic envied for its liberties’, both Amateurs and Professionals are ‘distinctly unwelcome’. The occupants squabble constantly over the name of the land and whether it should include the syllable ‘Art’. Apart from internal rivalries, there is a constant threat from
Artcontemporanea, buying up choice tracts in Artistica and trying to run things.