beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

La couleur vient après

Anne-Lise Broyer / Emmanuel Laugier / Sally Bonn

La couleur vient après of Anne-Lise Broyer revisits the different series that the artist has developed over nearly thirty years. It is the place for her to propose a new reading of images that the reader has been able to discover in the previous and numerous works she has published. Anne-Lise Broyer plays, in a way, a new interpretation of her work in an original sequence-montage that she always masters in all the conceptions of her books. This collection is an opportunity to build a new photographic narrative – and to discover many unpublished ones – with literary accents that are always found in his work, inspired by Duras, Flaubert, Rimbaud…

Moreover, as usual, she likes to invite writers to collaborate in her books. The poet Emmanuel Laugier, whose sensitivity to images runs through his work from his first book L'oeil bande, composed about ten original poems, written specifically to resonate with the photographic flow established by Anne-Lise Broyer. For her part, the art critic Sally Bonn proposes at the end of the book a more analytical text on the relationship to writing in the artist’s work.

This book is co-edited with the Jeu de Paume on the occasion of the Niépce - Gens d'images prize, which Anne-Lise Broyer was awarded in 2024.

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Le temps est caché dans les plis d’une fleur

Anne-Lise Broyer / Colette  Fellous / Jean-Luc Germain

Time is hidden in the folds of a flower is the new work by artist Anne-Lise Broyer. Continuing her exploration of literature through the visual arts, Anne-Lise Broyer, invited to stay in Deauville and Normandy as part of a creative residency, draws a line connecting books and authors (Duras, Flaubert, Proust, Sagan...) and moments in life that have little in common except a territory and the fact that they represent a reactivation of her first literary emotions. In a subtle interweaving, Anne-Lise Broyer brings to life the child she once was, distant from the world, but also that of the summer of 1980, lost in her vision. Les Roches-Noires and the Grand-Hôtel de Cabourg rub shoulders with the landscapes of Madame Bovary.

The texts by Colette Fellous and Jean-Luc Germain echo the images.

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CORRESPONDANCES AUTOUR DE BATAILLE

Anne-Lise Broyer / Olivier Meunier / Thierry Girard / Michel Surya / Vincent Roget

A look back at a film by André S. Labarthe that left its mark on the “Un siècle d'écrivains” (A Century of Writers) collection: Georges Bataille, à perte de vue (Georges Bataille, As Far as the Eye Can See), made in 1997.

The book includes an interview with André S. Labarthe and Olivier Meunier in 2014 and correspondence between the director and Michel Surya during the preparation of the film. The book also includes extensive iconography from the film and previously unpublished photos by photographer Anne-Lise Broyer. A preface by Mathilde Girard and an afterword by Vincent Roget accompany a previously unpublished letter by André S. Labarthe.

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LE CHANT DE LA PHALENE (ORAISON)

Anne-Lise Broyer / Suzanne  Doppelt / Florent Motsch / Olivier Delavallade

Le Chant de la phalène (oraison) uses a series of photographs, some enhanced with graphite, to recreate a sensory experience of the landscape. Anne-Lise Broyer presents the work she developed during a residency at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec.

The aim is to make the rustling audible again, like a song against a song, a song that contains all the beauty of the world but also its loss. Just like the death of the moth observed by Virginia Woolf, it is a matter of praising the purity of this ultimate dance.

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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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