beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

With Jeff Wall, Refonder la modernité (refounding modernity), Philippe Bazin gives us his artist’s point of view on the work of a world-renowned photographer. Constantly inviting surrealism in banality, Jeff Wall has become master of the familiar strangeness. Philippe Bazin offers us with a panorama of Wall’s work, from his very first pieces in the late 1970s until the dawn of the 2000s. By doing so, he sheds light on some thirty photographs, reproduced in large format, by comparing them with the Baudelairian ideal of the “painter of modern life” which has permeated the Canadian artist’s practice and thinking from the outset. This book has the advantage of being a fluid, intellectual and sensitive dialogue between two photographers on the lookout for the “fantastic real extracted from life” that Baudelaire had glimpsed.

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