Photography
Patrick Tosani / Pierre Giner / Marie José Mondzain / Laurent Roth / Pascale Cassagnau / François Quintin
This book offers, for the first time, a comprehensive inventory of the photographic collection of the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), in which Patrick Tosani immersed himself for over three years. It retraces the methodology and approach by which the artist composed his iconographic juxtapositions. After the inventory itself, the reader can, as they turn the pages, follow the artist’s gaze and zoom in on the collection to discover the photographs he selected according to criteria that blend the subjective and the scientific.
This selection of more than 700 images, arranged alphabetically by artist’s name, is laid out like the plates of Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas. These compositions, which respect the proportions of the works in relation to one another, reflect the exhibition design created by Patrick Tosani and Pierre Giner, which emphasizes unexpected encounters between the works and rejects any hierarchy of their authors or photographic genres.
An unprecedented exchange between philosopher Marie-José Mondzain and critic Laurent Roth focuses on the question of how images are received today. Patrick Tosani and Pierre Giner, in their interview with François Quintin, discuss their meeting, their collaboration, and the working method they used to implement this original project.
Des images comme des oiseaux, 33 x 37 cm, 148 pages, approximately 700 full-color reproductions, paperback with flaps, French/English
Graphic design: Trafik
This book was co-published with the Centre national des arts plastiques
«Des images comme des oiseaux : elles volent d’un lieu à l’autre, de pays en pays, de continent en continent, partout où vivent les hommes. Oiseaux-images migrateurs. Légères et volages, elles sont constamment en mouvement.» Karl Sierek
Œuvres reproduites de :
ABALLÉA Martine, ADAMS Dennis, ADAMS Robert, ÁLVAREZ BRAVO Manuel, ALVISE Berti, APPELT Dieter, ARAKI Nobuyoshi, ARDEN Roy, AUERBACHER Dominique, AUGUSTE-DORMEUIL Renaud, BALDESSARI John, BALLEN Roger, BALLO CHARMET Marina, BAQUIÉ Richard, BAZIN Philippe, BEECROFT Vanessa, BELIN Valérie, BERGERET Grégoire, BERNARDINI Alain, BLUME Anna et Bernhard, BOUILLON François, BREUNING Olaf, BRISLEY Stuart, BURGIN Victor, BURKHARD Balthasar, BUSTAMANTE Jean-Marc, CARTIER-BRESSON Henri, CHEVRIER Claire, CLARK Larry, COHEN Lynne, COINDET Delphine, COLLINS Hannah, COPLANS John, DAVIDSON Bruce, DAVIES John, DÉLO, DEMAND Thomas, DESPATIN François & GOBELI Christian, DICORCIA Philip-Lorca, DIJKSTRA Rineke, DITYVON Claude, DOISNEAU Robert, DOPPELT Suzanne, DÖRBAUM Martin, DUNNING Jeanne, DURAND Philippe, DUYCKAERTS Eric, EBNER Florian, EDGERTON H. Eugene, EGGLESTON William, EHRMANN Gilles, EVANS Walker, EVRARD Dominique, FAIGENBAUM Patrick, FAMILIARI Christelle, FÄSSLER Maud, FENOYL Pierre de, FILAIRE Anne-Marie, FLEISCHER Alain, FONTAINE Thierry, FOUCAULT Henri, FRAMIS Alicia, FRANÇOIS Michel, FRANK Robert, FREED Leonard, FRÉGER Charles, FRIDFINNSSON Hreinn, FRIEDLANDER Lee, GARCIN Gilbert, GARNELL Jean-Louis, GAUTEL Jakob, GENERAL IDEA, GEOFFRAY Agnès, GETTE Paul-Armand, GHIRRI Luigi, GIACOMELLI Mario, GOLDIN Nan, GRAHAM Dan, GRAHAM Paul, GRAHAM Rodney, GRAUERHOLZ Angela, GRONON Philippe, GROOVER Jan, HAINS Raymond, HAUSSWOLFF Annika von, HILLIARD John, HÖFER Candida, HORSFIELD Craigie, HUET Henri, HUGUIER Françoise, JAMMES Louis, JANOT Guillaume, JOURNIAC Michel, JOUVE Valérie, KEITA Seydou, KERTÉSZ André, KLEIN William, KNORR Karen, KOLÁROVÁ Bela, KOUDELKA Josef, LAFONT Suzanne, LANSLEY & BENDONON, LE GAC Jean, LECCIA Ange, LEISGEN Barbara et Michael, LEITER Saul, LEMAÎTRE Maurice, LEONARD Zoe, LEVÉ Edouard, LEVIN Mikael, LEVITT Helen, LÜTHI Urs, MAC ADAMS, MAC CULLIN Donald, MAC DERMOTT & MAC GOUGH, MACLEAN Alex S., MAPPLETHORPE Robert, MEATYARD Ralph Eugene, MEIER Sabine, MERCIER Pierre, MICHALS Duane, MILOVANOFF Christian, MINKKINEN Arno Rafael, MIRALDA Antoni, MOFFATT Tracey, MOGARRA Joachim, MOLINIER Pierre, MONNIER Richard, MORATH Inge, MORELLET François, MOUILLÉ Thierry, MOULÈNE Jean-Luc, MUEHL Otto, NASA, OPALKA Roman, ORLAN, OROZCO Gabriel, PANE Gina, PAOLINI Giulio, PARADEIS Florence, PATAUT Marc, PINARD Emmanuel, POITEVIN Eric, POUVREAU Paul, RAINER Arnulf, RAULT Jean, RENÉ-JACQUES, RIBOUD Marc, RISTELHUEBER Sophie, ROCHE Denis, RODGER George, RONDEPIERRE Eric, RONDINONE Ugo, ROSENFELD David, RUFF Thomas, RUSCHA Ed, SAMORE Sam, SAUDEK Jan, SCATTOLA Luciano, SCHILLER Iris Sara, SCHMID Joachim, SCHOELLKOPF Jean-Louis, SEKULA Allan, SENADJI Magdi, SERRALONGUE Bruno, SERRANO Andres, SHERMAN Cindy, SHUNK Harry, SHUNK-KENDER, SIDIBE Malick, SIEFF Jeanloup, SIMMONS Laurie, SMITH Seton, SNOW Michael, STOCK Dennis, STOLL Georges Tony, STREULI Beat, STRUTH Thomas, STURTEVANT, SUGIMOTO Hiroshi, TABARD Maurice, TALEC Nathalie, TILLMANS Wolfgang, TRÉMORIN Yves, VEILHAN Xavier, VERNA Jean-Luc, VOÏTA Bernard, VOLLE Annick, WALLACE Ian, WARHOL Andy, WEGMAN William, WELLING James, WILKS Stephen, ZAZA Michele.
