'It is not a history of photography ---but we are going to try and define the photographers whose work has migrated beyond magazines, newspapers, publication into the great museum collections.' Marina Vaizey Marina Vaizey and Anne Blood consider the historical impact of photography on the fine and interpretive arts; from pioneers such as Hill and Adamson, Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre to Edward Steichen and Man Ray. The documentary power and graphic clarity of the medium challenged and persuaded artists such as Degas, Sickert, Warhol and innumerable creative voices. In their essays Marina and Anne explore the conjunctions and variations where document and dream intermingle, in a revolutionary medium which transformed the classical canons of Western tradition.

Cv/VAR 156 presents a study by Anne Blood the pioneering artist Kurt Schwitters (b. June 20, 1887, Hannover, d.January 8 1948 Lendal) which reviews an exhibition 'Kurt Schwitters in Britain at Tate Britain, January to May 2013. The author explores the collection of 150 collages at the Tate and focuses on 'Merzbau', a late work created in a barn at Elterwater, wherte Schwitters was exiled, a complex internal sculpture integrated in a wall, forerunner of the modern concepts of art and installation.