beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

GLISSEMENT DE TERRAIN

Beatrix Von Conta / Julien Zerbone

For 25 years, Beatrix von Conta has been questioning, in different forms and approaches, the contemporary landscape, noting, without nostalgia, the subtle or striking signs of an ongoing transformation. Her detached but sensitive approach invites the viewer to reflect on the infinite fragility of a territory and its landscapes. Her gaze, attentive to the smallest detail, seeks to transpose the notion of stratification, of a mille-feuille landscape, in which each layer, associated and compacted with the others, determines what emanates from the image.

Her photographic work is permeated and nourished by the question of the memory of the landscape and its more or less violent transformation.

This book presents nearly 20 years of photography, research conducted by Beatrix von Conta on the urban and natural landscape. It is an essential work in this field. A long preface by Julien Zerbone introduces the book, and the photographer's texts accompany and present each of the series.

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Le Monde à plat

Paul Pouvreau / Julien Zerbone / Antonia Birnbaum / Charles Pennequin

By recomposing the image, Paul Pouvreau spreads the world out before our eyes, revealing its nature as a palimpsest, an accumulation of layers of meaning, materials, and stories. It takes infinite rigor and precision on the part of the photographer for meaning to flow between planes and objects, for the pillar to enter into dialogue with the pouch in the absence of any hierarchy, for the runner to stride over the bush, for the poppies to invade the real estate project, for confusion to reveal the hidden meaning of things. In terms of photography, we should talk about a surgical act, a gesture of opening and then suturing space, which brings together what was previously separate. (Julien Zerbone)

Three authors each take up a particular aspect of the work:

the poet Charles Pennequin,

the philosopher Antonia Birnbaum,

and the art historian Julien Zerbone.

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