Photography
Philippe Bazin / Christiane Vollaire / Georges Didi-Huberman
For over twenty years, Philippe Bazin has photographed the faces of individuals within institutional settings (hospitals, hospices, schools, prisons, etc.). This vast artistic project on the faces of our contemporaries explores the presence of humankind within the institutions that frame our lives from birth to death, as Michel Foucault discussed in his work, but also raises the question of individuality. Through photography, he aims to restore a face to people who, absent from our gaze, have often disappeared from collective visibility.
Each face is presented as an affirmation of presence in the world, made of flesh and a gaze with which we must reckon.
Philippe Bazin’s photographs avoid all psychologizing, all pathos, and do not seek to unveil a supposed interiority; nor are they social in nature, but rather attempt to empty the subject of any external presence. One could consider that Bazin establishes a kind of collective memory, sometimes drawn from the fringes of our society.
This monograph brings together and concludes, in five hundred and eighty-five photographs, the entirety of his work on the theme of portraiture. It is accompanied by a new essay by the philosopher and art historian Georges Didi-Huberman and a text by the philosopher Christiane Vollaire, which examine this unique body of work from the perspectives of aesthetics, the history of photography, and politics.
La radicalisation du monde, 29 x 29 cm, 280 pages, 560 duotone reproductions and 38 four-color reproductions, bound in a matte laminated hardcover Graphic design: L’atelier d’édition and Sandrine Roux
« On se dit alors qu’un visage ne nous apparaît que toujours trop tôt ou toujours trop tard : encore trop tôt, s’agissant des Nés, déjà trop tard, s’agissant des Vieillards. Chaque fois, en effet, le visage se souvient de l’informe d’où il vient, chaque fois il attend l’informe où il va. […] » Georges Didi-Huberman
COPY OF THE BOOK ACCOMPANIED BY A LIMITED EDITION PRINT
Limited edition of 50 copies, signed and numbered from 1 to 50 by Philippe Bazin.
Black and white silver gelatin print, packaged in an acid-free paper envelope and inserted into the book.
Print size: 28 x 28 cm.
Image size: 20 x 20 cm.
Price: €250 (VAT included)
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