beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

En Piste

Stéphane  Asseline / Philippe  Ayrault / Christian Décamps / Laurent  Kruszyk / Nicolas Szwanka / Romuald Goudeseune / Denis Soula

Cross-cutting and sometimes marginal topics : gymnasiums, swimming pools, racecourses or tennis court, among others, form an architectural typology of its own. This tenths opus of the « Ré-inventaire » collection looks at the relationship between these exceptional facilities and the region and the athletes who bring them to life. With an enlarge focus on the Paris and its small crown, this books aims to document sport practice of Franciliens since the 1880. In the light of 2024 Olympics and Paralympics games, sports buildings testifies to the Île-de-France region’s historical commitment in the favor of sport and sporting practices. 

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Grand Bain

Stéphane  Asseline / Philippe  Ayrault / Christian Décamps / Laurent  Kruszyk / Jean-Bernard  Vialles / Emmanuelle Philippe / Jessy Jouan / Éric Karsenty

First used for sanitation, then as places to learn to swim and compete, before becoming facilities for relaxation and leisure, swimming pools in the Paris region have been profoundly influenced by public use since the second half of the 19th century. A variety of architectural forms have emerged, ranging from simple pools to industrial structures and, in some cases, highly original designs. To this day, the long history of swimming pools in the Île-de-France region has shown how architects' inventiveness has been put to work in the service of all aquatic activities.

This book offers a unique perspective on these everyday spaces through a selection of photographs taken since the 1980s by the Inventaire d'Île-de-France. Taken from a corpus of thousands of images, they offer a poetic view of objects, capturing the light that floods the pools or erasing the sometimes rough contours of the structures.

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Vert Paradis

Philippe  Ayrault / Stéphane Joubert / Laurent  Kruszyk / Julie  Faure

Nestled in the heart of the French Vexin park, the Villarceaux regional estate invites visitors to stroll and daydream. Listed as a historic monument, this little-known gem is home to a unique collection of buildings dating from the 14th to the 19th centuries, and seventy hectares of exceptionally rich gardens, labeled as a Remarkable Garden.

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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.

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Côté jardin

Philippe  Ayrault / Stéphane  Asseline / Sandrine Expilly / Stéphane Joubert / Jean-Pierre  Sageot / Jean-Bernard  Vialles / Julie  Faure / Pierre Thibaut

Within the long and complex history of garden design, the Île-de-France region occupies a special and privileged place. Beyond its favorable natural conditions, the “capital region,” having established itself over the centuries as the center of power, is home to a large number of remarkable historic gardens. The jewels in the crown of the region's identity, some of them have achieved iconic heritage status.

From the vegetable gardens, orchards, medicinal gardens, and pleasure parks of the Middle Ages, to the waterfalls, ponds, fountains, and water jets of the Renaissance, to the present day, where garden cities, allotments, family gardens, shared gardens, and rooftop gardens are thriving, their ramifications extend to us and are more alive than ever, reflecting a growing desire for nature.

With its exceptional heritage stretching back centuries, the Île-de-France region has established itself, from yesterday to today, as a land of gardens with a promising future.

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À L’ŒUVRE

Stéphane  Asseline / Philippe  Ayrault / Laurent  Kruszyk / Christian Décamps

The studio, in the simplicity of its material reality, falls into the category of “other spaces” conceived by Michel Foucault, and exists only as an imagined place, a gateway to the mental universe of a creator. A place of creation and production, the studio lies between the private sphere and the public domain, and constitutes a space of legitimization because it is the place where the creative process is represented and mediated.

The photographs of artisans' and artists' studios presented in this book, without distinction between the spaces of manual trades and intellectual professions initiated in the 16th century, can also be seen as self-portraits of their occupants, whether they are visible or let the places speak for themselves.

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Industrie

Stéphane  Asseline / Philippe  Ayrault / Laurent  Kruszyk / Chritian  Decamps / Jean-Bernard  Vialles

For 40 years, the Île-de-France inventory has sought to change perceptions of industry, applying to factories the same photographic standards that had previously been reserved for cathedrals. Gradually, this iconography of buildings, from brownfield sites to redevelopment, has been enriched by depictions of work and a determined focus on people in their relationship to work.

Drawing on thousands of images, this third volume in the “Ré-inventaire” collection offers a new and unconventional journey through this industrial adventure, a sort of historical overview of forty years of photographic practice. For more than 30 years, the photographers of the Inventory have been following and contributing to the research of industrial heritage researchers throughout the country.

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Lycées

Philippe  Ayrault / Stéphane  Asseline / Laurent  Kruszyk / Jean-Bernard  Vialles / Chritian  Decamps / Diane Dufour

Beyond their architecture and their strong presence in the community, high schools are essential places of life for those who attend them, primarily students, but also teachers and all the staff necessary for their proper functioning. Can we still inventory and account for this place of life, of formal and informal learning, this place of confrontation, of displays, of individuation, of socialization, of interaction, this place of immersion, by reducing it to a formal analysis of its architecture? What are we looking at? What do we see? Without answering all of these questions, the dialogue between researchers and photographers allows us to question the contours of what a public facility is: from empty classrooms to portraits of high school students or maintenance staff, from auto repair shops to heritage libraries, from hallways to tree-lined parks...

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État des lieux

Stéphane  Asseline / Philippe  Ayrault / Jean-Bernard  Vialles / Laurent  Kruszyk / Christine Ollier

A veritable manifesto, this first volume in the Ré-inventaire collection revisits the contents of the Inventaire francilien, focusing on the photographic choices made over the last ten years. From knowledge to interpretation, from the exceptional to the mundane, the book offers an overview that reveals the increasingly blurred boundaries between descriptive, documentary, and artistic photography.

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