beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

Le gel – L’île

Flora Mérillon / Léa Bismuth

“Le gel – L’île combines two travels, two aspects of a photographic territorial research through the prism of my imagination and emotions, a fiction based in Saint-Laurent’s gulf in Quebec. I had planned to meet with Mother-Earth and the documentary side of exploring these regions led to a broader, more introspective field.

LE GEL – Winter of 2013, Gaspésie, Prince Edward Island, Magdalen Islands, North Shore. I went out to meet this winter, wandering through these vast spaces when the living conditions are harsher and nature seems to be taking over. I was moved by the solitude of generations of women.

L’ÎLE – Summer of 2016. I visited the Anticosti Island, the largest of the gulf: 8000 km² of preserved forests, pure rivers, a village and approximately 200 inhabitants. It’s the archetype of a desert island. Haunted by the stories of its castaways, it seems unattainable.” (Flora Mérillon)

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Journal de l’œil (les globes oculaires)

Anne-Lise Broyer / Léa Bismuth / Thierry Girard / Bertrand Schmitt / Yannick Haenel / Muriel Pic

With Journal de l’œil (Les Globes oculaires), Anne-Lise Broyer attempts to experience literature through the gaze. As if, through photography, she were advancing in her vision as one advances in a book... The work is built around the life and work of Georges Bataille... Each image is a journey that implicitly refers to the writer, but goes beyond a simple desire to document. Anne-Lise Broyer's approach is also sensitive, emotional, and intuitive. She captures the power of Bataille's writing, the challenge being not to create images that illustrate a thought, but rather to find images that are conducive to producing thought. The book also includes unpublished texts, essays, and more free-form approaches by Léa Bismuth, Bertrand Schmitt, Mathilde Girard, Yannick Haenel, and Muriel Pic.

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