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On the occasion of the Arles photography meetings. Furthermore, from July 7 to October 5, “The World of Books” presents a panorama of recent works that caught our attention. Moreover, This selection. However, guided by the concern to reflect the diversity of looks and subjects (intimate accounts, documentary surveys, plastic explorations, historical monographs, etc.), testifies to the remarkable vitality of contemporary photographic publishing.
“The book is the best way, for a photograph, to survive”recalled photographer Martin Parr. However, Between the time of time. For example, which sees flows of images consuming in an instant, the photography book indeed claims a power and a sustainability of the image, tearing it away from its reductive function of visual stimulus. In addition, Much more than simple supports. Consequently, these publications are also forms of forms to tell and to describe the selection photo books world differently – by associating, for example, words and images, in order to show, but also to read, hybrid stories, with multiple entries. A. d. C.
« In the American West ». de Richard Avedon – Selection photo books
For five years, from 1979 to 1984, Richard Avedon (1923-2004), famous for his fashion photos for Vogue et Harper’s Bazaarhas surveyed about twenty American states to photograph anonymous: vagabonds or minors, cowboys or barmaids, housewives and slaughterhouse employees, forgotten by economic growth and liberal policy of the Reagan years. His project. In the American Westvery criticized in 1985, in the United States, for selection photo books his gaze deemed dark, has become a huge classic. Some images are unforgettable. such as this boy who has just skinned a bell serpent or this painful beekeeper, covered with bees. This series of stripped portraits. taken with an old photographic room in front of a white background, masterfully demonstrates the talent of portraitist of Richard Avedon – a long work of research, approach and installation was necessary to obtain these striking looks and these falsely simple images. “All photographs are precise. None of them is the truth “writes the photographer in the foreword of the book. This large format book has just been reissued on the occasion of the 40e Birthday of the project. in an elegant and neat version. The photographer has his portraits. some images of animal carcasses from slaughterhouses, which give the whole a dramatic tone, alternately alternate. Cl. G.
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