Photography
Eric Rondepierre / Catherine Millet / Jacques Rancière
Initially an actor, Éric Rondepierre then turned—via painting—to photographic work connected to cinema. His artistic practice explores the dynamic relationship between these two disciplines.
In the early 1990s, he began exploring the “blind spots” of the cinematic apparatus. His approach involves selecting, according to well-defined criteria, and then photographing photograms (that is, images that appear on the screen for 1/24th of a second and are invisible during a normal projection), subsequently presenting them as large-format photographic prints.
As a spectator, archivist, or archaeologist, Éric Rondepierre identifies film images related to “parasitic, peripheral, accidental, micro-phenomenal events that no longer have any connection whatsoever with cinema.” Whether documenting fiction or fictionalizing the document, Rondepierre’s work observes the aberrations of the filmic apparatus, authenticates the discrepancies, the metamorphoses of orphaned images, provokes encounters and hybridizations, and develops hypotheses.
Images secondes brings together all the series the artist has created over the past twenty-five years and includes previously unpublished essays by Jacques Rancière and Catherine Millet.
Images secondes, 24 x 28 cm, 224 pages, approximately 400 full-color reproductions, hardcover with full cloth binding and embossing, French / English Graphic design: Danish Pastry Design
Qu’est-ce au juste que le photographe a vu ? Qu’est-ce qu’il a prélevé sur ce qu’il a vu pour nous montrer « ce que nos yeux n’ont jamais vu »? Jacques Rancière
