Build and Destroy - David de Beyter do-it-yourself The lack of recognition of

The lack of recognition of Chauncey Hare’s work has maybe much to do with Hare’s fanatical aversion to the commercial realms of the art world even at the height of his professional success

and breaks the conventions we are used to

but returned to photography in the late 1950s and began to work in colour as well as black and white

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Build and Destroy - David de Beyter do-it-yourself The lack of recognition ofBuild and Destroy presents David De Beyters immersive project from between 2014 and 2020, which focuses on the Big Bangers, a community of stock car enthusiasts who fix up and then demolish vehicles that would otherwise be consigned to the scrap heap. In its combination of artistic and anthropological approaches, the book resonates with the experience of destruction as observed by De Beyter and offers a fragmentary reading of this culture of creation