Le Bec en l’air (French Edition)

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A retrospective exhibition on Denis Brihat is to be organised by the National Library of France in However the project, in a desert area 20km from Port-au-Prince, has been riddled with errors: The challenges faced by the country are being replicated on a smaller scale and, in response, inhabitants must reinvent their daily lives. Aimed at both the general public interested in this technique as well as a trade market architects, landscape gardeners… , it also includes a detailed technical part, illustrating the construction of a wall under expert guidance.

This book narrates the story of marble, since the time of its perilous extraction from the quaryy all the way to its most prestigious uses in architecture and works of arts. The author, an art historian and researcher, describes marble according to the philosophical, learned and religious literature viewpoints, but also from the techniques used by stone cutters in the quarries and marble workers. Superb photographies and numerous, yet unpublished, illustrations accompany a brilliant piece of writing, wich reads like an epic.

Calades in French, ciottolati in Italian, chochlakia in Greek, this technique, that consists in setting rough stones and small pebbles vertically, covers grounds in the whole Mediterranean world. This book means to treat of this know-how on two ways: Step by step, technical drawings and photographs illustrate clearly each gesture.

The 1, submissions received, shown in this book, are a testament to a common desire to protect the right to satire and humour. With text by sociologist Dominique Cardon and poster artist Michel Bouvet. Three thousand years ago, at the foot of the high plateaus in the Yemen, great cities sprouted out of the sand.

Resting upon the surrounding walls, temple pillars, the facades of houses, the Arabs of the South engraved their messages, meant for the gods and for men. A photographer and an epigraphs writer, a specialist in South Arabic lettering, have traveled up and down the Yemen, that so little known country, and deliver their way of reading the light reflected from the stones of its monuments.

With text by Thierry Fabre and Sana Tamzini. This book presents and comments on 70 works by French and Italian artists acquired and preserved by the museum since Why choose to make paint at home? Experience has shown that traditional paints are beautiful when first applied and remain aesthetically pleasing during the ageing process. The techniques which this book describes are based upon old recipes that have proved to have been effective, and use non polluting ingredients.

Certain paints are prepared only from natural, ecological and economical products: Violence, extreme poverty and corruption; Guatemala is one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Its young, deprived of opportunities, join the Maras en mass; extremely violent gangs, who terrorise the population. A polyphonic narrative, which combines text and images, fact and fiction.

In Marseille, chefs and artists have imagined and created eight imaginative carts, to roam the streets, providing cheap food, very quickly. Steamed, grilled, stir fried, barbecued, fried, soup or raw, they offer an interpretation of street food, flavours and products from the Mediterranean region and Provence. A story about a homo parental family: Five years after the birth of the eldest, this book tells us about their choice and the questions it gave rise to: She was walking along an avenue of plane trees.

He was approaching from the opposite direction. About to pass each other she suddenly came closer, extended her arm and said "excuse me Sir, can I touch you? She's a night office cleaner and hates the cold buildings and her life in general. Suffering from awful migraines, she ends up throwing a chair through a window.

Something inside her sets her free and she sees a mysterious red priest. A man has to return to the place of his childhood to claim an inheritance. This trip which should have been a mere formality will reveal buried mysteries. Overwhelmed by the power of the countryside and by the disturbing strangeness of the remains of the big house where he lived, the narrator enters a world of ghosts.

Thierry Magnier uses the dreamlike photographs of Francis Jolly to plunge the reader into a universe on the fringes of reality. In a psychiatric hospital, pass the shattered lives of Luce, Monique, Boris and many others. Patient, carer, member of staff, visitor Tatiana Arfel chooses fiction to embody these rich and mysterious private worlds that resonate with images by Julien Cordier.

Here they are in Rome, the birthplace of the writer, and well known by the photographer. They invite us on a stroll through the city's streets where we traverse centuries in just a few metres, with every house - or nearly every - revealing the city's glorious history.

She dialogs with the images in a voyage that is at the same time funny and unpredictable to point of cuban daily life, and depict both life scenes and landscapes.

In the Argentinian pampas, the town of Tandil is famous for its 'Moving Stone', a huge rock which was precariously balanced on top of a hill until the 29th of February when it mysteriously fell. At a constant 70 kph, the landscape changes imperceptibly. The traveller, absorbed by inaction and solitude, also traverses a range of internal states that come to confront hm. That journey is perhaps the most surprising.

There are two of them. Two boys share the same excitements and the same boredoms. But coming out of adolescence, while the unsure one - the narrator - begins to stand tall, the other sees his spirit broken and finds refuge in a psychiatric hospital. Why one and not the other?

Idriss, an illegal immigrant from Mali, relates the beginnings of his friendship with Ahmed. With no ID and unable to return to their homeland, they are both shut out. The feelings that they keep to themselves go round and round until Ahmed goes off the rails and is imprisoned. Inspired by the photographs of Anissa Michalon, Arno Bertina wanted to emphasize in a short novel, the pressures which illegal immigrants are under, especially a large number from Africa.

A young woman inherits her grandmother's bed? Where should this very intimate object be placed? This legacy becomes a pretext for a stimulating digression which is a reminder that the bed, age-old piece of furniture and hero of stories, accompanies us throughout our life in dreams and insomnia, in illness and in love. Back in his native country for the first time after ten years of absence, he discovers a broken city. His botanical mission soon takes on the aspect of a police investigation in order to get to the bottom of a vast colonial implantation project camouflaged in the alleys of this perfect garden.

In , a plane exploded in mid air. Vesna Vulovic, a Yugoslavian air hostess, survived a fall of ten thousand metres. Was this a political plot to divert public attention? It doesn't really matter. By exploring the boundaries of memory and graphic design, Claro recounts this fall, this mysterious journey between heaven and earth.

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Humiliated by his peers, misunderstood by his family, an adolescent decides to run away from Paris. At the end of a long journey, he reaches Tangier where, as result of three decisive meetings, he experiences a new life before knowing the fate of the street children. A wonderful, tragic story about the fragility of childhood which has as a backdrop, the reality of a town immersed in the heart of contemporary issues between the Arab world and Europe. Rock, leaf, scissors, but also islet, parcel, edge Word by word, a landscape is drawn, made of cities, mysterious wild lands, and cultivated areas.

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His trip lasted four years and finished in Japan. Usage du monde The way of the world , story of this drift that became a cult book throughout the world. In November , photographer Frederic Lecloux retook the same trip in a Fiat. His journey would take more than a year.

What came out of it was an exceptional travel album. Zinc prizes winner As a lover of the city which she has assiduously explored for many years, Catherine Izzo introduces "her" Istanbul. In Curious Notebooks , we experience the full force of her photographic writing: Reverend Paul Adam Jackson certainly deserves a religion, even a minor one He devotes his whole life to advocating good and succeeds in making the world better. Unfortunately, in contrast to other religious figures whose existence is attested by books, paintings and personal accounts, his miracles have passed totally unnoticed so it is high time to rehabilitate the wonder-working reverend.

A compendium of funny, off-beat miracles. The photographic narrative of Franck Pourcel makes us share the destiny of these people confronting the fragility of their daily lives. This work is a unique travelogue of the work of the great photographer Denis Brihat. Denis Dailleux is known for the portrait of Egypt which he has been developing for over fifteen years. In a search for new locations, he found his way to Ghana, where the fishermen of the port of Jamestown turned out to be a rich source of images: Within this community, he explores new ways of relating to the body and space, life and death, and the sea, breathing new life into his photography.

The Geishas bring us back to the animistic origins of Japanese society. Through their grooming routines and their practice of ancient arts, they provide relief from the impermanence of human affairs. It is only in Western minds that these guardians of secular traditions come into conflict with the modern world; on the contrary, they bring a fresh dimension to the treatment of gender issues in Japan. Since its first edition in , the Circulation s festival has been dedicated to young European photography. Through this large-scale exhibition, the festival aspires to focus on emerging photographers and show the public innovative contemporary artistic creations.

This work constitutes the catalog of the edition and introduces the work of each one of the guest artists. Hercules Papaioannou, patron of this edition will open the exhibition. Photographer Patrice Terraz allowed himself to be guided by a final-year class in the town of Corbeil-Essonnes. He followed them for a year, inside or outside of school, and observed the way in which they seized their world: These images reveal their intense personalities and paint a picture of urban youth, which is neither hopeless nor depressing.

Nepal is most famous for its extraordinary geography, yet the everyday life its inhabitants is played out elsewhere. These Everyday Epiphanies were created in the light of this documentary writing, on which they expand in their own poetic language. In , Iranian photographer Payram fled his country for France, driven away by the Islamic Revolution.

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For more than 30 years, he has been getting to grips with his status as an exile through his intimate relationship with light. Light may by definition be the fundamental material of the photographic medium, but for Payram it is also the subject, the medium of meaning itself and the mark of the indescribable.

This monograph pays tribute to this quest for light through a series of Polaroids taken with a large-format camera. Jane Evelyn Atwood, a young American, roams the streets of Pigalle, the transgender district. One day she follows two of them after they agree to let her photograph them. Thus starts a book filled with compassion and insight.

The images that she assembles were taken during a period of just over a year. La Photographie Maison Blanche is a festival dedicated to contemporary photography created in Marseille in Every year it awards a Prize which is featured in a monograph. In them, she explores the mystery of the attractiveness of bodies and questions our relationship with eroticism and sensuality.

The famous New wave director of photography, Raoul Coutard learned his art within the French army. On the periphery of the required reports of military operations, he accompanies ethnologists on their expeditions to remote areas. Using hitherto rare colour film, he depicts the ethnic diversity of Cambodia, of Laos, Thailand or Vietnam, countries previously unknown to Westerners. The Solovki Islands in northwest Russia are known for their monastery, but also for having the first camp of what would become the Gulag.

In this decor of extremes, the photographer Jean-Luc Bertini and writer Olivier Rolin have turned their attention to the camp library, now long gone. Their search constitutes a slow exploration of this region where ghosts of the past cross paths with the disappointed hopes of contemporary Russia. For several years, the photographer Franck Pourcel has travelled in the footsteps of Ulysses; an epic journey that has led him to more than fifteen Mediterranean countries.

He tells thirteen photographic stories, symbolized by three imaginary constellations, which question this moving territory crossed with the challenges of our world. It thus develops new, more humane, sensitive and personal geographies. Water has become one of the major stakes in the 21st century.

This book pays homage to the beauty and the fragility of that precious natural resource all over the world. From springs to men, Sharing water, Praise to water. The book results from more than ten years of photographic endeavor by Alain Gualina. His photos are characterized by a rigorous artistic approach, both humanistic and committed to the cause. The text was written by a water specialist with the aim of informing the largest public possible. Meant for privileged customers, it is perceived as a dream tool , that of the access to consumption.

When Jean-Luc Cramatte discovered this work, he was hit by its serial aspect and the artistic potential that this vast sociological portrait offered and wanted others to know about it. This book concentrates on the village of Youga Nah, one of the founding sites of the mythology of the Dogon people, settled in Western Africa between Bandiagara and the Niger river.

For the authors it is about re-giving life to a culture too often seen as unchanging. In November, Bamako hosts numerous creative events and takes on the aspect of an international capital of culture. This book is a literary essay which gives voice to those from the African continent who are playing and who will increasingly play a major role on the world wide cultural stage.

It is also a sensitive and thoughtful personal travel journal, on present day Africa observed through the portraits of major artists. Through his photographs, Denis Dailleux pays tribute to the martyrs, men and women - often young - who lost their lives in the Egyptian Revolution of 28 January , victims of police violence and pro-Mubarak militia. For two decades, museums have been reaching out beyond their physical walls. Monumentalbum, a project by the artist Joan Fontcuberta, is one such initiative.

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This book analyses this exciting participative experience. The astonishing and exceptional aerial pictures in this book reveal little-seen faces of the City of Algiers.

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Christian Garcin is a photographer and a writer who has taken many pictures of his trips to Shanghai, Kyoto, Liverpool, Minsk, St Petersburg and Tiksi. Here they are assembled into collections that can but stimulate one's imagination. This book covers part of his private life - his meeting with his future wife, their love and their family life - and shows that the artist treats an intimate subject with the same exigency as the rest of his work.

From this work, Jean Mayerat has undertaken a singular work: What have they kept of their roots? Do their bodies reveal their stories without penetrating their intimacy? Two African authors relay their thoughts on this artistic approach. Mac Adams is considered to be one of the founders of Narrative Art, who introduced the idea of fiction into photography. His work allows for various interpretations and speaks of that difficult to define space situated somewhere between a representation of reality and what really exists: The work of Mac Adams also questions, often in a recreational way, the power of images and the manner in which they are created.

With its large and beautiful black and white Polaroid photographs, Somos Cubanos is a beautiful, timeless book about this continuously fascinating country. In Congo in Limbo, the boundary between heaven and hell is ill-defined. His viewpoint encompasses the complexity and intricacies of a conflict that is murderous, endless and overlooked by the international community. This work was awarded a World Press Photo in The Camp des Milles Memorial Site of the only internment camp which was used for transit and deportation, still in good condition in France, opens to the public in The texts, photographs and archival documents of this work restore the strength of this commemorative site.

Little Urban Agonies, a surprising blend of literature and photography dedicated to the facades of Paris and its suburbs. Scheduled for demolition these forsaken places glow with artistic possibilities. A variety of different writers have produced several short, fictional, poetic or intimistic texts based on these pictures. For seven years, the American photographer Kathryn Cook has been patiently working on the trail of Armenian Genocide - the first in the history of the twentieth century - which has killed more than 1 million Armenians in Turkey.

With a contemporary photographic style that mixes colour with black and white, along with a poetic documentary, she manages to revive the threads of an unspoken history and its denials. Denis Brihat is one of the biggest names in contemporary photography. A lover of nature and its forms, he reveals its unique beauty using a sophisticated printing process.

This book presents a wide selection of his first "photographic pictures". He explores the familiar world of his garden: A monograph permitting us to see his unique work, which is displayed and collected worldwide. It's the 20 th century before the advent of digital greetings. At his studio, Robert Doisneau is taking shots of his grandchildren to send greetings to his photographer friends.

These greetings cards combine humour with imagination, revealing a beautiful brotherhood, to recount an intimate chapter in the history of French photography. Since it was first introduced in , the Circulation s Festival has been dedicated to young European photography, with the aim of developing young talent and introducing the public to innovative contemporary artistic creation, through a major exhibition. Produced by photographer Denis Dailleux, this series of portraits dating from are the result of the photographer meeting "a band of happy suburbanites" in a train.