![]() ![]() Is it domestic? Inevitable and unruly, dust is the enemy of the modern order, its repressed other, its nemesis. “I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”Īnd what if dust is really the key to the intervening years? Why do we dislike it? Is it cosmic? We are stardust, after all. ![]() At the same time, a little English journal publishes TS Eliot’s poem The Waste Land. ![]() Cameras must be kept away from dust but they find it highly photogenic. At first they called it a view from an aeroplane. The photographer is Man Ray, the glass is by Marcel Duchamp. A little French avant-garde journal publishes a photograph of a sheet of glass covered in dust. Let’s suppose the modern era begins in October of 1922. A Handful of Dust is David Campany ’s speculative history of the last century, and a visual journey through some of its unlikeliest imagery. ![]()
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