Michel Poivert
Professeur à l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Michel Poivert dirige l’Unité de formation et de recherche Histoire de l’art et Archéologie. Président de la Société française de photographie membre de la rédaction de La Revue de l’Art et de la revue Études photographiques. Il a notamment publié Patrick Tosani (Flammarion, 2011), La photographie contemporaine (Flammarion en 2002 et 2010), L’image au service de la révolution (Le Point du Jour Éditeurs, 2006). Il a codirigé avec André Gunthert L’Art de la photographie, des origines à nos jours (Citadelles et Mazenod, 2007).
Macadam Color Street Photography
Jean-Christophe Béchet / Jean-Luc Monterosso / Sylvie Hugues / Michel Poivert
For several decades, Jean-Christophe Béchet has been pursuing a photographic career characterized by street photography, or what is known as street photo, a genre whose name has been perpetuated by the American photographic tradition.
In this new book, he revisits photographs taken throughout his career that particularly question the different situations of this type of photography. Through a hundred selected photographs and three interviews with image specialists, he seeks to question what this photography is, what it can bring into play, attempting to define some of its contours.
Macadam Color Street Photography
25.5 x 24.5 cm, 192 pages, 110 four-color reproductions, hardcover, cloth binding
ISBN: 978-2-843140-66-2
Graphic design: L’Atelier d’édition
Last copies
ISBN: 978-2-843140-66-2
Réseaux
Philippe Ayrault / Stéphane Asseline / Laurent Kruszyk / Christian Décamps / Jean-Bernard Vialles / Paul Damm / Michel Poivert
Bridges, train stations, roads, aqueducts, and viaducts have been studied and photographed since the creation of the Île-de-France Inventory service. This new addition to the Ré-Inventaire collection offers a poetic journey through 40 years of photography.Without straying from the documentary style that is the hallmark of the Inventaire général's photographic work, the Inventaire's photographers drew inspiration from the work of photography's great masters, such as Lartigue and Rusha, to capture the experience of movement, speed, and the sheer scale of these infrastructures.Their work, presented in this book, reveals the raw beauty of these architectural structures.
Réseaux
6 x 20 cm, 72 pages, 50 color reproductions, hardcover
Co-published with the Île-de-France Region
ISBN: 978-2-843140-50-1
La région humaine
Michel Poivert / Gilles Verneret
For the 20th anniversary of the Lyon photography center, Le Bleu du Ciel, its director Gilles Verneret revisits the photographers who have exhibited there and, over time, defined a certain style of documentary photography. This book highlights the creativity and diversity of documentary photography through the works of nearly 100 photographers, many of whom are French, but also from around the world.
Since the 1990s and 2000s, the humanities and social sciences have become a new point of reference for photographers. By thwarting or sometimes openly criticizing the institution of photojournalism, photographers affirm the values of investigation, fieldwork, economic and social analysis, and political decryption. Our contemporaries are inventing a poetics of responsibility, turning documentary photography into a genre open to the imagination of a world to come.
In addition to historical texts by Gilles Verneret and Michel Poivert presenting different aspects of this new documentary photography, this book also includes texts written by the photographers featured.
La région humaine
24x 215;28 cm, 256 pages, 200 reproductions in four-color and black, paperback with flaps
Co-published with Le Bleu du Ciel
Graphic design: Larsquo; L’Atelier d’Édition
ISBN: 978-2-843140-35-8