Pierre Bergounioux
Écrivain
Pierre Bergounioux, né à Brive-La Gaillarde en 1949, est l’un des plus importants écrivains français de sa génération. Passionné d’entomologie, il pratique également la sculpture et dispense des cours au collège ainsi qu’aux Beaux-Arts de Paris. Cependant, c’est avant tout un écrivain très attaché à son terroir de naissance, la Corrèze.
Son œuvre, abondante et poétique, se lit comme un seul grand livre d’inspiration autobiographique portée par des thèmes structurants que sont l’enfance, les origines, le temps et le déracinement.
Reconnu par ses pairs, Pierre Bergounioux a reçu de nombreuses distinctions notamment le Prix Roger Caillois pour l’ensemble de l’œuvre (2009), et le Grand Prix de littérature de la SGDL pour l’ensemble de l’œuvre (2002).
Paysages insoumis
Thierry Girard / Pierre Bergounioux
What does a landscape reveal? What secrets does it hold behind its apparent tranquility? While working on a project around Vassivière in the Limousin region, Thierry Girard was struck by the rebellious and defiant nature of the history and culture of this area. Drawing on this reflection, he attempts to capture, through his large-format photographs, the rich historical dimension of this region and its neighboring departments.
To evoke the land of the Resistance, but also all the forms of resistance that, over the centuries, have shaped the history of these regions: collective or individual revolts, peasant uprisings and social conflicts, but also the paths of exile or migration of populations driven by necessity.
His work has developed around places (cities, villages, countryside, forests) where a remarkable or more modest event has left its mark. The landscape often seems indifferent, often silent in relation to its history, but his skill lay in making this weight of the past rise to the surface of the image. Through research, sometimes gathering testimonies from local inhabitants, he presents, alongside each photograph, a short text recounting the historical event that took place there.
The writer Pierre Bergounioux, so attached to this land in the Centre of France, has written a substantial, unpublished text, recounting a short history of insubordination through the ages: from the Sumerian era to Tarnac in 2008! We find the strength of his literary style which here carries all his commitment.
Paysages insoumis
31 x 24 cm landscape format, 96 pages, 50 four-color and two-color reproductions, full-color printed hardcover
By the same author: A Winter in the Oise
By the same author: Banquet Hall
By the same author: In the Thickness of the Landscape
Graphic design: Danish Pastry Design
ISBN: 978-2-919507-05-4