beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

Futurs antérieurs

Jacqueline Salmon / Georges Didi-Huberman

This monograph, introduced by a text by Georges Didi-Huberman, covers nearly forty years of photographic and other creative work. It revisits the chronology of her various series, weaving them together and highlighting the issues that the artist continues to explore: questions of space, writing, and archives. Photographic prints, archives, and publications are the materials with which Jacqueline Salmon recomposes, double page after double page, her career like a musical interpretation. She presents the reader with the works she considers most important in the construction of her oeuvre.
Furthermore, Jacqueline Salmon has always forged important links with writing. Project after project, her writings shed light on the series she is developing. She has always forged special ties with writers and philosophers who have written extensively about her work. This book is therefore an opportunity to (re)discover extensive excerpts from texts, prefaces, and interviews written about her work and chosen for their relevance to the selected works and for the quality of their writing.
With: Paul Ardenne, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Dominique Baqué, Richard Baillargeon, Jean Baudrillard, Christine Bergé, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Michèle Chomette, Hubert Damish, Georges Didi-Huberman, Bruno Duborgel, Jean-Christian Fleury, Magali Jauffret, Michel Kelemenis, Christophe Loyer, Michel Poivert, Jean Louis Schef

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La radicalisation du monde

Philippe Bazin / Christiane Vollaire / Georges Didi-Huberman

For over twenty years, Philippe Bazin has photographed the faces of individuals within institutional settings (hospitals, hospices, schools, prisons, etc.). This vast artistic project on the faces of our contemporaries explores the presence of humankind within the institutions that frame our lives from birth to death, as Michel Foucault discussed in his work, but also raises the question of individuality. Through photography, he aims to restore a face to people who, absent from our gaze, have often disappeared from collective visibility.

Each face is presented as an affirmation of presence in the world, made of flesh and a gaze with which we must reckon.

Philippe Bazin's photographs avoid all psychologizing, all pathos, and do not seek to unveil a supposed interiority; nor are they social in nature, but rather attempt to empty the subject of any external presence. One could consider that Bazin establishes a kind of collective memory, sometimes drawn from the fringes of our society.

This monograph brings together and concludes, in five hundred and eighty-five photographs, the entirety of his work on the theme of portraiture. It is accompanied by a new essay by the philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman and a text by the philosopher Christiane Vollaire, which examine this unique body of work from the perspectives of aesthetics, the history of photography, and politics.

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