"read & see" "read & see" is a series of publications that will be devoted to Examining the relationship between text and images in the context of the book. The first book in the series to see the day is: books of photographs and words , edited by Daniele Méaux, Caen: Lettres Modernes Minard, et al. "Read and see» 2009, 252 pages.
Click image for larger view Anne Reverseau wrote and published a first account ren of this book. Here are some excerpts: (...) In its chapeau, D. Méaux examines the dynamics between text and image in productions mixed, "hybrid", which are not necessarily literary objects. She said the "book of photographs and words" is "an area of interference and interference "But also an object defined by the specificity of photography. Indeed, its particular relationship to time and its ability to "recontextualization" facilitate the integration of photographic images in a story or a fiction (p. 16-17). D. Méaux chosen to exclude the moving image (video and film) of his field of study since it is not the same imagination as photography, whose "arche", particularly the ability of incarnation, influences on the texts.
The "books of photographs and words, through their play with "The device of truth" (p. 12) in particular, are moving the line between reality and fiction and the border between the genders. Further, they urge that thought necessarily transdisciplinary approach of this group, like other works on the photo-literature, may well be to consolidate the margins of some disciplines to form a new discipline. We thus find in Books of photographs and words the difficulties inherent in this field, such as classification of hybrid objects or opening to the contemporary.
Some articles focus to a work, as Fire Valere Novarina and Thérèse Joly (1994), analyzed by Jean-Pierre Montier and Story of Hers (1983), studied by Jan Baetens and Mike Bleyen, or a set of works: novels, photo Mary-Françoise and Benoît Peeters Plissart (Alexandra Koeniguer) or publications by Joseph Kosuth (Jacinto Lageira). Other articles consider the most important corpus: texts and autobiographical photographic Veronica Montémont, large corpus of novels associated with the photo for Chloe Conant and John Arrouye - to Orfa Armand Sylvestre (1901) to more contemporary works by Christian Bobin, Mary or Marie Ndiaye Desplechin - text and pictures to dream Christine Buignet, conceptual artists' books and books for Jerome Dupee photographers Christophe Viart. The last two studies look at sets like the most unexpected images that Boris calendars Eizykman provides a historical overview and picture books to accompany some LPs Post Punk, presented by Paul Edwards.
The main problem with this field of research lies in the heterogeneity of its objects. "Iconotext" to Veronica Montémont (p. 40) "photo-text" for Paul Edwards (p. 240), "Business iconico-text 'for John Arrouye (p. 54)," works phototextuelles "Chloe Conant (p. 76): the difficulty in finding a permanent name for these objects is a sign of unease, until about literary or even artistic status of these "books of photographs and words."
Some papers emphasize particularly on the multitude of objects. Jean Arrouye addresses eg head on the issue of classification by categorizing books according to the different functions of Photography - "the illustration of detail" in the early or "allegory" - and according to its statute, the semiotic model, in the case of Our Antefix Denis Roche, the documentary or "reserve fiction "through the" hatchery feelings "in The Use of Photography from Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie (p. 71). Taking into account economic constraints in the artistic choices, Chloe Conant remarks about it that each book introduces a "new device" (p. 75) and distinguished features illustrative of legend devices or comment, or more complex arrangements such as the notebook.
It appears from these studies that the "book of photographs and words" creates a game, that is to say, a free space between the two mediums. Artists and writers are playing with this space of indeterminacy between reality and fiction, "says Veronica Montémont (p. 39). The image "opens a new horizon to the text" (Buignet, p. 110), it can be a "clutch of memory and fiction ..." (Arrouye, p. 57) and, finally, it enables the works to constraints or experimental, books profoundly " playful "(Conant, p. 76 and p. 90). In the texts of "musicians photographers" as Philippe Fichot and John Foxx, which he analyzes in detail the "poetic any photographic" (p. 245), Paul Edwards locates a "preview", that is to say a "vision indoor photography to come "(p. 246). Whatever its function, this game is a space of freedom, instead of a "co-creation", a term that incorporates Montémont Véronique François Soulages (p. 38), which involves the reader, a true "co-producer of the work "in artists' books Lawrence Weiner, Jochen Gerz and Robert Barry Dupee according to Jerome (p. 172).
Most of the work published here highlight the contact points or deep entanglement between literary and artistic production. Along with the rising power of images, beyond the question of illustration, one finds in literature, Jerome Dupee notes the growing presence of text in art since the 1960s.
we understand how close to the photographic image in literature and book the space, but also in analytical methods. By comparing the works of Lothar Baumgarten, Hamish Fulton and Sophie Ristelhueber Christophe Viart considering the "book as an exhibition space" (p. 196) through the tools of semiotics and literary legacy assumed through Mallarme or Valery. And it is in sociological terms Alexandra Koeniguer questions the transformation of an object of popular literature in "New Roman-photo" (p. 216) that multiplies housing abyss and questions about the medium.
books of photographs and words insight into developing and the historical context of these forms in vogue today. It seems necessary to interpret the success as does Veronica Montémont who works for the Legendre and Bonnetto, Sophie Calle and Christian Boltanski are not only egotistical games or the result of the subversion of the autobiographical genre (p. 49 ), but genuine forms of fictional inventions. This group shows that the picture is a "new participant in the literary game (Arrouye, p. 70) and it does not confine itself to the reality effects. These hybrid objects, combining text and photographs, create, even in their indeterminacy, "a new art show and tell "(Arrouye, p. 71). In line with the work of Paul Edwards, books of photographs and words thus illuminates the role of photography in our imaginations.
Here via the summary, the issues addressed in this book:
General Introduction: The Book of photographs and words: an area of interference and interference by Daniele Meaux.
- 1. Fire : presence in the world, incandescent speech, Jean-Pierre Montier.
- 2. How to lie and say the truth twice: photography and autobiography, Véronique Montémont.
- 3. A new art of saying and showing, by Jean ARROUY.
- 4. Small arrangements of reality and fiction, by Chloe Conant.
- 5. Hers / Story : a poetic sprawl, by Jan and Mike BAETENS Bleyen.
- 6. Notes on some collections of words and images of dreams, by Christine Buignet.
- 7. The picture as it is stated, by Jacinto Lageira.
- 8. Copresence and co. Uses of photography and text in art books "conceptual", by Jerome DUPEYRAT.
- 9. Exhibition of words and images in space of the book (examples of Lothar Baumgarten, Hamish Fulton and Sophie Ristelhueber) by Christopher ViArt.
- 10. Image described in the image of the written word: the inverse photo-fiction by Alexandra Koeniguer.
- 11. Of unwanted frozen in time schedules, Boris Eizykman.
- 12. The photo-illustrated book in deluxe editions of the Post Punk music, by Paul Edwards.