CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS: THE PRODUCTION LINE OF HAPPINESS │ Whitechapel Gallery, London → 21 June 2015

“A fngr pýzd on a camra – its ôpn bac rvilñ ɖ filmrol n mec̣nizm – sets ɖ sìn fr ɖs xibišn v fôtgrafs abt ftogṛfi. Smẇr btwn a filmdrctr, a picčreditr n an āthistwrı̣n, Americn ātist Crisṭfr Wiłmz (b.1956) invstigets ftogṛfi az ɖ dfînñ mīdı̣m v moḍnizm.

Wiłmz’ xqizit prints rvil ɖ unxpctd byti n culčṛl reznns v cmršl, industrı̣l n instruẋnl ftogṛfi. Ofn wrcñ wɖ setdzînrz, modlz n tecnišnz, Wiłmz’ tecnicli prisîs picčrz rcwl Cold Wor ira imijri n 1960z advtîzñ, az wel az invocñ histriz v āt, ftogṛfi n siṇma. Hiz fôtgrafs r eḷmnts at ple in a ljr sistm includñ ācitecčr, xibišndzîn, bcs, pôstrz, vidioz, vitrīnz n sînij ɖt invstigets ɖ stêjsets v ɖ ātwrld n ɖ publisti strucčrz on ẇč ɖe rlî.

Fṛm hiz rnând 1989 studiz v btanicl spesimnz, Angola t Vietnam, t ɖ hîpŗiyl, culr-sačretd studiz v cičnwér md in 2014, ɖs frst srve v Wiłmz’ wrc in ɖ YC imrsz s in vižli inʈrwlñ n ṗlitcli reznnt lînz v inqîri.”

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Erratum by Christopher Williams. Photograph: Courtesy of David Zwirner, New York/ London and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

Fig. 2: Loading the film, 2012. Photograph: courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne; and David Zwirner, New York/London

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Mustafa Kinte (Gambia), Camera: Makina 67 506347 … Dirk Schaper Studio, Berlin, July 20, 2007 2008 Private Collection, London Image courtesy Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne and David Zwirner, New York/London