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Le 11 juin 1985, un mardi, Denis Roche prend une photographie où, ayant accroché son appareil à la branche d’un arbre et enclenché le retardateur, il se met en scène entrant dans l’image et marchant vers le porche muré d’une église de Cologne sur lequel un squelette graffité semble l’attendre. Cette composition, qui épouse la forme d’un récit, notamment par la description(...)
Vanishing point (approches de Denis Roche)
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Le 11 juin 1985, un mardi, Denis Roche prend une photographie où, ayant accroché son appareil à la branche d’un arbre et enclenché le retardateur, il se met en scène entrant dans l’image et marchant vers le porche muré d’une église de Cologne sur lequel un squelette graffité semble l’attendre. Cette composition, qui épouse la forme d’un récit, notamment par la description que donne Denis Roche de cette prise de vue, tout en proposant une réflexion métaphysique poignante, donne naissance à une « poétique » singulière où le texte et l’image sont considérés à parts égales, déployant depuis cette « visée » une perspective où se rejoignent la mémoire et la mort, l’instant et le souvenir, la présence et l’absence, le sujet et l’objet.
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Cette publication constitue une plate-forme internationale de discussion entre artistes, écrivains, théoriciens, curateurs et historiens questionnant le statut même de la photographie aujourd'hui, notre relation à l'image, ainsi que les dimensions politiques et culturelles de celle-ci, à partir d'une mise en perspective de l'image photographique contemporaine à l'ère(...)
Après la crise : états contemporains de la photographie
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Cette publication constitue une plate-forme internationale de discussion entre artistes, écrivains, théoriciens, curateurs et historiens questionnant le statut même de la photographie aujourd'hui, notre relation à l'image, ainsi que les dimensions politiques et culturelles de celle-ci, à partir d'une mise en perspective de l'image photographique contemporaine à l'ère numérique avec la crise de la représentation à l'époque de la naissance de la photographie.
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Theory of Photography
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Le présent recueil réunit les textes que Nicolas Bouvier a écrits sur la photographie entre 1965 et 1996. À de nombreuses occasions, l’auteur genevois avait parlé de son métier d’iconographe, notamment dans le petit livre Le hibou et la baleine, paru en 1993, mais sa réflexion sur l’acte photographique restait à découvrir. Jusqu’à ce jour, les écrits qu’il a dédié à ce(...)
Du coin de l'oeil : écrits sur la photographie
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Le présent recueil réunit les textes que Nicolas Bouvier a écrits sur la photographie entre 1965 et 1996. À de nombreuses occasions, l’auteur genevois avait parlé de son métier d’iconographe, notamment dans le petit livre Le hibou et la baleine, paru en 1993, mais sa réflexion sur l’acte photographique restait à découvrir. Jusqu’à ce jour, les écrits qu’il a dédié à ce sujet (préfaces, articles de presse, introductions à des catalogues d’exposition) restaient dispersés. Près de quarante textes se trouvent ainsi rassemblés ici. Parmi eux, certains relatent également son activité de « chercheur-traqueur d’images », qui aura été son gagne-pain durant près de trente ans.
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La Tour Eiffel
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La Tour Eiffel est un livre double qui réunit le texte de Roland Barthes et les photographies d’'André Martin. Symbole de Paris pour le monde entier, ce monument que l’'on voit de partout, nous propose lui-même en retour un regard panoramique pour contempler la ville et en faire la conquête. Édifice longtemps décrié, pleinement et ouvertement inutile, il est d'’abord un(...)
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La Tour Eiffel
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La Tour Eiffel est un livre double qui réunit le texte de Roland Barthes et les photographies d’'André Martin. Symbole de Paris pour le monde entier, ce monument que l’'on voit de partout, nous propose lui-même en retour un regard panoramique pour contempler la ville et en faire la conquête. Édifice longtemps décrié, pleinement et ouvertement inutile, il est d'’abord un objet d’une grande prouesse technique, un signe d'’audace et de modernité qui est devenu au fil du temps une oeuvre artistique, une dentelle de fer, signe de légèreté et, par sa verticalité, de l'’impossible tentative de l'’homme pour atteindre le ciel.
Lewis Baltz : texts
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This is the long-awaited compendium of Lewis Baltz's writings from 1975 until 2007, drawn from his critical writing for magazines such as Art in America, the Times Literary Supplement, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, and Purple. The book includes Baltz's texts on Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Robert Adams, Michael Schmidt, Allan Sekuka, Chris Burden, Thomas Ruff, Barry Le(...)
Lewis Baltz : texts
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This is the long-awaited compendium of Lewis Baltz's writings from 1975 until 2007, drawn from his critical writing for magazines such as Art in America, the Times Literary Supplement, L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, and Purple. The book includes Baltz's texts on Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Robert Adams, Michael Schmidt, Allan Sekuka, Chris Burden, Thomas Ruff, Barry Le Va, Jeff Wall, Félix González-Torres, John McLaughlin, Slavica Perkovic and Krzysztof Wodiczko, among others. This important publication gives Baltz's literary output the standing it deserves and offers a unique insight into some of history's leading photographers.
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Afterimage of Empire provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception. Considering photographs from the Sepoy Revolt of 1857 along with landscape, portraiture, and famine photography, Zahid R. Chaudhary explores larger issues of truth, memory,(...)
Afterimage of empire: photography in nineteenth-century India
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Afterimage of Empire provides a philosophical and historical account of early photography in India that focuses on how aesthetic experiments in colonial photography changed the nature of perception. Considering photographs from the Sepoy Revolt of 1857 along with landscape, portraiture, and famine photography, Zahid R. Chaudhary explores larger issues of truth, memory, and embodiment. The author scrutinizes the colonial context to understand the production of sense itself, proposing a new theory of interpreting the historical difference of aesthetic forms. In rereading colonial photographic images, he shows how the histories of colonialism became aesthetically, mimetically, and perceptually generative. He suggests that photography arrived in India not only as a technology of the colonial state but also as an instrument that eventually extended and transformed sight for photographers and the body politic, both British and Indian.
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Photography and travel
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Photography and travel have been linked since 1839, when Daguerre and Talbot first made their inventions known to the public. The inventors and their advocates immediately recognised photography’s capability to vividly represent the spectacles of the world, and make them accessible to the general public in the comfort of their homes. The unquestionable connection between(...)
Photography and travel
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Photography and travel have been linked since 1839, when Daguerre and Talbot first made their inventions known to the public. The inventors and their advocates immediately recognised photography’s capability to vividly represent the spectacles of the world, and make them accessible to the general public in the comfort of their homes. The unquestionable connection between photography and travel remains vital today. In Photography and Travel, Graham Smith provides a lively account of this partnership, discussing the diverse applications of photography to travel during the nineteenth century, in destinations as exotic as France, Italy, Greece, Egypt, Japan and North America. He then moves to the twentieth century, ranging from seaside excursions to transcontinental travel by rail, road and air. As it has become more democratized, the methods and experiences of travel have developed in many unexpected directions, all of which have created their own new photographic narratives.Photography and Travel shows that photographers have often gone to great lengths – at considerable personal danger – to record exotic destinations, from the ice caves and crevasses of the Mer de Glace to the maw of Vesuvius, from the summit of Mount Everest to the pock-marked surface of the moon.
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Photography and landscape
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Photography and Landscape is a collaboration between a writer about photography and a landscape photographer that provides a new critical account of landscape photography which focuses on the settler societies of the United States and Australia. Beginning with the frontier days of the American West, the subsequent century-long popularity of landscape photography is(...)
Photography and landscape
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Photography and Landscape is a collaboration between a writer about photography and a landscape photographer that provides a new critical account of landscape photography which focuses on the settler societies of the United States and Australia. Beginning with the frontier days of the American West, the subsequent century-long popularity of landscape photography is exemplified by images from Carleton Watkins to Ansel Adams, the New Topographics to Richard Misrach, all of whose works are considered here. Along with discussions of other contemporary photographers, this illustrated volume demonstrates the influence of settler societies on landscape photography, in which photographers captured the fascination with and the appeal of the land and its expense.
Theory of Photography
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Photographic historian Edwards looks at the popularity of the amateur photographic survey movement in England between the mid-1880s and the end of World War I, when over a thousand amateur photographers took well over 50,000 photographs documenting nearby churches, cottages, and other local features. Edwards sees this movement as a form of popular history.
The camera as historian : amateur photographers and historical imagination, 1885-1918
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Photographic historian Edwards looks at the popularity of the amateur photographic survey movement in England between the mid-1880s and the end of World War I, when over a thousand amateur photographers took well over 50,000 photographs documenting nearby churches, cottages, and other local features. Edwards sees this movement as a form of popular history.
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Ne regardez jamais l'appareil.
Walter Benjamin : Petite histoire de la photographie
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