Ernest pignon-Ernest Face aux murs

Fifty people (writers, philosophers, plasticians…) comment liberally on the works of Ernest Pignon-Ernest.

 

Duane Michals What I wrote

Duane Michals isn’t just a photographer, he also has an undeniable talent for writing. This work assembles photographs but also a selection of his poems and aphorisms, in the original English as well as a French translation..

 

Werner bischof Carnets de route

This biography of Werner Bischof, punctuated with extracts of his correspondences and his journal, illustrated with photographs but also sketches, retraces his time as a student in art and his voyages throughout post-War Europe, Japan and Latin America.

 

Don McCullin Unreasonable Behavior

We had to wait twenty years to publish McCullin’s autobiography in french. Self-taught in both his photography and his writing, this is a man whose eye is lucid and innocent, incredulous when faced with barbary. Throughout his published images from his twenty years with Sunday Times Magazine, he vowed to perturb the dominating comfort of his compatriots by presenting them images of injustice done by one human to another.

 

Cartier-BressonDes images et des mots

Fifty people (painters writers, philosophers, cinematographers…) comment on the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson. DVD of the film Flagrants délits included which features most of his well-known works.

 

AbbasSur la route des esprits

After Islam and Christianity, Abbas is most interested in polytheistic religions – the practice of voodoo, shamanism, animism—in Siberia, Japan, Brazil, Haiti, Venezuela, Mali, and studies the return of the irrational in modern societies.

 

Josef KoudelkaL'épreuve totalitaire

Connaisseurs know that the work of Josef Koudelka is of major importance. Jean-Pierre Montier’s essay melds a confronting text with a photographic impulse, that is as coherent as it is forceful.

 

Robert Capa Slightly Out of Focus

Never before published in French, this work reunites the text and the images of Robert Capa during World War Two. An intrepid trek across Europe, London and North Africa, of occupied Italy, and from a liberated Paris to a Germany in its last days of conflict.