beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

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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L’Invention d’une île

Thierry Fontaine / Christine Ollier / Simon  Njami

It is not easy to classify the work of Thierry Fontaine, which straddles the boundaries of several genres. While his preferred medium is photography, it would be difficult to define him as a photographer. His various works are more akin to actions, to staged scenes whose image he then captures on film.

In Thierry Fontaine's work, different levels of perception are simultaneously generated by the symbolism of the image, its poetic charge, and the way in which the artist creates it. He indeed pushes the tools of what could be called his "image-making" quite far.

It is not easy to classify the work of Thierry Fontaine, which straddles the boundaries of several genres. While his preferred medium is photography, it would be difficult to define him as a photographer. His various works are more akin to actions, to staged scenes which he then captures on film. While Thierry Fontaine is an artist with contemporary practices whose work aligns with the most cutting-edge Western approaches, he remains deeply connected to his culture. He is a native of Réunion Island, and in doing so, he incidentally connects us to his homeland. In this way, he speaks to us of exoticism and raises the socio-political question of our perceptual codes and the prejudices that still hold non-dominant cultures captive. Yet, Fontaine avoids political correctness at all costs. He elegantly disarms the cynicism of some or the attempt at recovery by others because he intimately knows where he is and where he wishes to place his work, an inclination he shares with the Martinican poet Edouard Glissant.

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Paysage cosa mentale

Christine Ollier / Jean-Christophe Bailly

Over the past four decades, the subject of "Landscape" has become a major theme in contemporary photography. Christine Ollier's essay examines and synthesizes the extent of the conceptual and formal renewal associated with this theme. The philosophical notions that structure this concept today have become more complex; the various aesthetic currents of our modern era, as well as the contributions of image technologies, have broadened its scope.

This book presents a number of exemplary artistic approaches that highlight the complexity and richness of this contemporary photographic movement. In addition to the author's synthesis, it features extensive reproductions of works by nearly 70 French and international artists.

This book received support from:
Arsenal de Metz / Artothèque de Vitré / Centre national des arts plastiques / Fondation nationale des arts graphiques et plastiques / Maison nationale des artistes de Nogent-sur-Marne / Maison des Arts Solange-Baudoux de la Ville d’Évreux / Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon / Musée de Laval

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