In Un hiver d\u2019oise, Thierry Girard abandoned his usual approach of documenting a journey, and instead chose to construct three sets of images inspired by landscapes and elements characteristic of the Oise department. He brought together his current working questions with literary references also linked to this territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus, the first part, entitled Toise, reveals an attraction to the vast, uniform expanse of the Picardy plateau, which Thierry Girard has treated like his maritime and Atlantic landscapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second series, Noise, is primarily linked to the work of Nerval, the poet of Valois, but also evokes Balzac’s La Belle Noiseuse, and therefore the question of representation. Hence the idea of \u200b\u200bexploring the ambiguity of the representation of the body in painting or religious sculpture and suggesting, through a few portraits of young girls and atmospheres of wood or nature, a pictorial and literary universe of a somewhat somber and melancholic romanticism\u2026 Nervalian, in a way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The third section, Poise, presents urban landscapes photographed with a 4×5 camera. Focusing not on monuments, grand houses, or picturesque farms, but on places of brick and gray that evoke the industrial and working-class history of the Oise region and an era symbolized by the work of Henri Barbusse, another writer from the Oise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
These three series, of course, do not encompass the entirety of the Oise, but offer three entry points, three possible approaches, both accurate and highly subjective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":25993,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"nature":[1281],"statutdeslivres":[],"class_list":["post-25992","livre","type-livre","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","nature-photographie-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n