beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

Jacqueline Salmon, une vie réfléchie

Sylviane Van de Moortele / Jacqueline Salmon

Jacqueline Salmon, une vie réfléchie (Jacqueline Salmon, a thoughtful life) inaugurates the new collection of biographies, Histoires de photographes (Stories of photographers). Sylviane Van de Moortele's gentle approach looks back on a whole life, from childhood and its cracks, encounters, and initiations. She takes us into the intimacy of an artist, touching on a body of work that feeds off life and vice versa, traversing stories big and small, joys and scars... The fluid writing takes the reader on a journey that, like any path, is sometimes winding and sometimes bright. An artist's life, a human life...

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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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Du vent, du ciel et de la mer

Jacqueline Salmon / Michel Poivert

In 1785, Alexander Cozens published a method for imagining nature, not imitating it. He identified 23 skies, which Constable meticulously copied before reading Luke Howard's publication proposing a nomenclature for clouds and becoming fascinated by a "natural history of the heavens."

Jacqueline Salmon's Of Wind, Sky, and Sea can be seen as a revisited natural history, interwoven with art history and photographic creations.
Her research highlights the poetry that emerges from the porous boundary between art and science. It resonates with the collection of the Le Havre Museum, rich in works by Eugène Boudin, with meteorological codes, and with the light of the English Channel.
The book takes the form of a rich and varied collection, blending iconography from diverse sources, borrowed and selected by the artist, with her own creations. Michel Poivert delivers, as a counterpoint to this work, a text in the form of false notes, playing on his side with this scientific imagination characteristic of this book.

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42.84 km2 sous le ciel

Jacqueline Salmon / Jean-Christophe Bailly

Photographer Jacqueline Salmon has always found in cities and their architecture material for developing photographic reflections. Thus, beneath the enigmatic title 42.84 km2 Under the Sky lies the ambitious project of attempting to describe a city. This project took shape over several years in the city of Toulon: the 42.84 km2 in question representing the city's surface area. How to represent a city is the question Jacqueline Salmon posed. This book answers it by bringing together as many photographic essays as a city illustrates its diversity. This "miscellany" book therefore contains:

– A collection of portraits of Toulon's inhabitants, forming a frieze ranging from a newborn to an elderly person, spanning all stages of life and representing diverse national and social groups.

– Groups of photographs centered around iconic architectural landmarks: a hospital, museums, the port, etc.

– Collections representing the spirit and history of a city: rugby ball collections, prison records, sailors' pom-poms, and other insignia.

– Narratives: about festivals, nuclear submarines, fishermen, etc.

At the photographer's invitation, Jean-Christophe Bailly spent several days wandering through Toulon, bringing the city to life through his writer's eyes. He returned from this stay with a substantial text on Toulon, which will offer a complementary perspective to this ambitious project. Shorter texts by Bailly will also open each of the main sections compiled by Jacqueline Salmon.

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