Eight albums and nine photographers to (re) discover through monographs, projects – and a biography.
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“Discover”, François Soeaux
François Daeaux’s book dedicated to China does not look like any other: it was in plastic that he has surveyed, for about fifteen years, metropolises very little frequented by foreigners. It has drawn a book that, beyond its documentary aspect on the violence of urbanization and two-speed modernization, seized in its great images of incongruous and poetic moments, finds forms and materials, plays with the true and false. The aquariums pile up like bright skyscrapers, the brushes-brushes carefully stored mimic the rainbow, the buildings grow on the ground as abruptly and easily as the turf in rolls. In his ambiguous images, who cross the dark and burlesque, the country seems a vast construction site where humans, small tiny things, are busy and are string down.
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“Leaving and waving”, Deanna Dikeman
The Nadar Award awarded, this year, a surprising book of photographs, without sophisticated images or extraordinary history. If the American work Deanna Dikeman is right, it is probably because it comes back to the very nature of photography, this desperate attempt to seize and retain the passing time. For twenty-seven years, the photographer visited his elderly parents in their Iowa home, sometimes accompanied by his son or dog. From the car just before leaving, she took a picture of the couple waving her arms as a sign. She raised these sweet-bitter images without project behind her head, just because, as a photographer, she takes pictures wherever she goes. But all, put an end, without legend, forms a set of both sober and poignant. Even though the smiles remain, the seasons pass, the child grows up, the mother stows, the father disappears, every goodbye seemed a repetition of the one who will mark the end of the book. Sadness and tenderness play equally in this book which, in its simplicity, tutors the universal, leaving this residential area of America to return each to its own history and the human experience in general, made of meetings and farewells.
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“America Americas”, Alain Keler
In 1971, the young Frenchman Alain Keler arrives in New York and chained the odd jobs. At its lost hours, it photography this teeming city, shaken by claims and events. After a long career as a photojournalist, Alain Keler has plunged down on these images in the United States, taken while he was not yet a professional photographer. He draws a very felt book, where his novice look captures the pulse of the time. In the streets, the restaurants, the boxing rooms or the metro, the photographer signs very beautiful portraits of anonymous, which stop on talking details, tender gestures, amazing outfits, giving an overview the diversity of the diversity of the population. Above all, the book, well printed, gives to feeling the intense vibration and the thirst for justice then crosses the crowds: we brandish placards against the Vietnam War, for the rights of women, for the liberation of the Jews of USSR – Images, moreover, that would have deserved some explanatory texts.
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