Rupert’s editorial service, Durrington Edits, specializes in arts-related editorial and exhibition projects, with an emphasis on photography and the photo-related arts.
Recent book projects include:
Red Skin Dreams by Nancy Marie Mithlo (forthcoming 2024 - Copy editor). Pub: University of Nebraska.
Reflections for Now by Carrie Mae Weems, 2023 (Editorial assistance and copy editing). Pub: Barbican/kunstmuseum basel.
Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums, 2022 (Copy editor). Pub: University of Arizona Press. Editors: Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo.
Rauschenberg: Reflections and Ruminations, 2020 (editor). Pub: Museum of Outdoor Arts, CO. Exhibition catalog.
Museums and Anthropology in the Age of Engagement, 2020 (Copy editor). Pub: Routledge. Author: Christina K. Kreps.
Knowing Native Arts, 2020 (Copy editor). Pub: University of Nebraska. Author: Nancy Marie Mithlo.
Making History - IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 2020 (Copy editor). Pub: University of New Mexico. Executive editor: Nancy Marie Mithlo.
Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, 2019 (Copy editor). Pub: Denver Art Museum. Exhibition catalog.
Ongoing:
Author of Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945-95 (forthcoming, fall 2024. See Colorado Photo History blog on menu left).
Publications History: My experience with publications stretches back to 1969 when I began a five-year apprenticeship as a letterpress compositor in Kingston-upon-Thames, England. I reoriented my career towards photography in San Francisco in the mid-1980s, and have used my letterpress training consistently since then.
My duties at San Francisco Camerawork (1989-1994) included editing the Camerawork Quarterly (later Journal). Two editions doubled as exhibition catalogs for shows I curated - Disputed Identities and Murder as Phenomena. The murder project led to my first book editing project, Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata (1995), for which I sequenced both the book and exhibition, and worked closely with the designer (Michi Toki) and project managers Chris Beaver and Judy Irving. The project also introduced me to digital and on-line technology.
Following the Nagasaki project I edited Points of Entry, a three–volume project involving Friends of Photography, San Francisco; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. As director of the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery from 1995-2005 I had less involvement with publishing, save for a number of small exhibition catalogs such as Film Show.
After earning my MBA in 2007, I joined the University of Denver's Victoria H. Myhren Gallery as in-house editor. My first project was On the Road in the Soviet Empire: Semyon Fridlyand Photographs, a fifty-year retrospective of the eponymous Jewish Soviet photographer who had somehow survived Stalin’s purges. During my tenure there I oversaw all publicity materials and edited many exhibition catalogs. Among those were Transforming Traditions: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection and Paul Soldner Ceramics (both 2009). In March 2011, I edited and wrote for the exhibition catalog of Warhol in Colorado. The catalog was superbly designed by Mary Junda, who also designed Transforming Traditions and the recent Rauschenberg: Reflections & Ruminations (2020).
I left the Myhren Gallery in 2011 to direct the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, where I was responsible for writing and overseeing the design of marketing materials and small publications such as the Role Play catalog. In 2017-18, I wrote several exhibition reviews for onegoodeyeonline.com, and began my research for Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945-95.
In 2017 I began editing book projects by Native American scholar and curator Nancy Marie Mithlo (see cover illustrations above). Our fourth book collaboration commences in 2023, with Red Skin Dreams, a book of essays by Mithlo.
Selected Publications (writer)
· Outside Influence: Photography in Colorado 1945-95 (forthcoming 2025). Author.
· Out of Town, photographs by Magnus Westerborn (2022). Essay.
· Warhol in Colorado, 2011. Exhibition catalog. Pub: University of Denver. Essay.
· I Remember You, 2010 (self published illustrated memoir)
· Photo Metro, Issue 134, 1995-1996. Introduction
· Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata, 1995. Pub: Pomegranate Artbooks. Introduction, Biography, Timeline
· Black & White Magazine, 1999. Vol 1:2. Cover interview with Ruth Bernhard
· East of Eden, Murder as Phenomena, 1992. Exhibition catalog/Camerawork Journal. Pub: San Francisco Camerawork. Introduction.
· Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, Winter 1994. Interview with Carrie Mae Weems.
Selected Publications (editor)
· Museums and Anthropology in the Age of Engagement, 2020 (Copy editor). Pub: Routledge. Author: Christina K. Kreps.
· Knowing Native Arts, 2020 (Copy editor). Pub: University of Nebraska. Author: Nancy Marie Mithlo.
· Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums, 2022 (Copy editor). Pub: University of Arizona Press.
Editors: Yve Chavez and Nancy Marie Mithlo.
· Making History - IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 2020 (Copy editor). Pub: University of New Mexico.
Executive editor: Nancy Marie Mithlo.
· Rauschenberg: Reflections and Ruminations, 2020 (Editor, with Dan Jacobs). Pub: Museum of Outdoor Arts, CO. Exhibition catalog.
· Museums and Anthropology in the Age of Engagement, 2020 (Copy editor). Pub: Routledge. Author: Christina K. Kreps;
· Knowing Native Arts, 2020 (Copy editor). Pub: University of Nebraska. Author: Nancy Marie Mithlo.
· Making History - IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, 2020 (Copy editor). Pub: University of New Mexico. Executive editor: Nancy Marie Mithlo;
· Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, 2019 (Copy editor). Pub: Denver Art Museum. Exhibition catalog.
· Rauschenberg: Reflections and Rumination, 2020. (Co-editor with Dan Jacobs.) Pub: Museum of Outdoor Arts. Exhibition catalog.
· All exhibition catalogs and outreach materials for Colorado Photographic Arts Center, 2009-15. (Print and online)
· Warhol in Colorado, 2011. (Contributing editor, Co-curator.) Pub: University of Denver. Exhibition catalog.
· Transforming Traditions: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, 2009. (Editor) Pub: University of Denver. Exhibition catalog.
· On the Road in the Soviet Union: Semyon Fridlyand Photographs, 2008. (Editor.) Pub: University of Denver. Exhibition catalog.
· Film Show, 2002. (Contributing editor, Co-curator with Stephanie Snyder.) Pub: Reed College, Portland, OR. Exhibition catalog.
· Nagasaki Journey: The Photographs of Yosuke Yamahata, 1995. (Contributing editor.) Pub: Pomegranate Artbooks (two editions, bilingual Japanese/English).
· Points of Entry, Vols 1-3, 1995. (Production Editor.) Pub: Friends of Photography, San Francisco; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego.
· Camerawork Quarterly/Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, 1989-1995. (Editor.) Pub: San Francisco Camerawork
· East of Eden, Murder as Phenomena, Fall 1992. (Contributing editor.) Pub: San Francisco Camerawork. Exhibition catalog/Camerawork Journal.
· Disputed Identities US/UK, Fall 1990. (Contributing editor.) Pub: San Francisco Camerawork. Exhibition catalog/Camerawork Journal.
· Primitive Images: an exhibition of plastic and pinhole camerawork, 1983. (Editor, Writer, Layout artist, Curator.) Pub: Eye Gallery, San Francisco. Exhibition catalog.
Miscellaneous essays, reviews (writer)
· Elissa Auther: “Feminism” is back, and ready to party, at MCA. May 24, 2017. Interview. onegoodeyeonline.com
· Just what kind of photographer is “Get Out’s” Chris Washington? May 17, 2017. Review. onegoodeyeonline.com
· Vibrant, hedonistic, exhilarating: Ryan McGinley’s youthful rampage at MCA. May 4, 2017. Review. onegoodeyeonline.com
· Cut & paste: Collage Club looks forward; Stacey Steers back. April 13, 2017. Review. onegoodeyeonline.com
· Tya Anthony/Jess Dugan, updating identity, defining place, March 28, 2017. Review. onegoodeyeonline.com
· Tales of the down, and not-quite-out, at the VFW, March 10, 2017. Review. onegoodeyeonline.com
· Beyond the news bubble, a personal kind of Mid East politics, February 24, 2017. Review. onegoodeyeonline.com
· Looking in, out, and back in Arvada photo show, February 9, 2017. Review. onegoodeyeonline.com
· it's all there in Black and White, March 2015. tbell gallery, Denver. Introduction/juror essay
· Mark Sink Photographs 1975-2010: Encounters with the Past, 2010. Byers-Evans House Gallery. Introduction
· Sight Unseen: International Photography by Blind Artists, and other reviews for denverarts.org, 2011-12.
· See: A Journal of Visual Culture, 1995. Issue 1:4. Book review: “Strangers in Strange Lands”
· Black & White Magazine, 1998-1999. Vols 1:1, 2, 4, 5. Exhibition reviews