beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

Scenery

Claire Chevrier / Gilles A. Tiberghien

This monography revisits the work photographer Claire Chevrier has been leading for the past twenty years around a reoccurring question: how to represent a space? Or, more precisely: how to represent a space in a photographic frame? The artist’s concern towards the organization of the real can be found in her project on scenic spaces as well as in another one considering the city as décor, with an interest for the way bodies move through a defined yet beyond their reach space.

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Espaces traversés

Claire Chevrier / Fabrice Bourlez / Audrey Illouz

Accompanied by the guiding figure of the Clinique de La Borde in Cheverny, founded by Jean Oury and where Félix Guattari worked for ten years, Claire Chevrier immersed herself in several institutional and associative structures to photograph the spaces where disabled people and caregivers live, move, and work.

The book's approach connects these images, taken in nearly a dozen specialized establishments, more from a typological than a geographical point of view. It questions the spaces of circulation and the bodies caught up in these spaces.

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Cheminement

Claire Chevrier / Arlette Farge

This book is the result of a collaboration between photographer Claire Chevrier and historian Arlette Farge. The two perspectives intertwine and respond to each other throughout the book.

Claire Chevrier traveled throughout Essonne to decipher the urban landscapes and landscaping recognized in the 1960s as the most avant-garde: the towns of Athis-Mons, Évry, Grigny, Morangis, Paray, the Saclay Plateau, Ris-Orangis, and Vigneux. What remains of this architectural utopia? Take, for example, the Grande Borne in Grigny, created at the time to provide “more humane” social housing, which four decades later has become an area known as a “sensitive zone,” home to the most disadvantaged populations.

Arlette Farge follows in her footsteps, tracing Claire Chevrier's photographic journey, pausing at this or that photograph, enriching the work with her reflections through touches of writing.

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Il fait jour

Claire Chevrier / Sidi Mohammed Barkat / Damien Sausset / Pia Viewing

Claire Chevrier continues her photographic exploration of humanity and its place in the world. After examining the spaces of major megacities, the artist has now focused her photographic research on workplaces. To further this research, she benefited from a residency in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in 2010, supported by the Regional Center for Photography. It was during this residency that the photographs in this book were taken. She was thus able to discover the world of large industrial sites, large and small businesses, social assistance organizations, sheltered workshops, and healthcare facilities. This entire field of work is representative of a broader spectrum that transcends the simple geographical location where Claire Chevrier worked. The images she has gathered in this book become emblematic of the world of work today, in France and elsewhere, with its own distinct spaces, its own actors, and its own unique scenography.

The texts by Sidi Mohammed Barkat, Damien Sausset, and Pia Viewing offer an interpretation of Claire Chevrier's photographic work from historical, aesthetic, and philosophical perspectives.

This book was co-published with the Centre Régional de la Photographie Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Silvana Editoriale in Italy.

It received support from the Centre national des arts plastiques, the Musée Nicéphore-Nièpce in Chalon-sur-Saône, and the APEI du Valenciennois.

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