Structure: Isabelle Boccon-Gibod - Hardcover

 
9782490952052: Structure: Isabelle Boccon-Gibod
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ISBN 10: 2490952056 ISBN 13: 9782490952052
Verlag: HEMERIA, 2021

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Inspired by the work of the Becher couple, whose aesthetic of objectivity tended towards minimalism, and by that of the American photographer Mike Disfarmer, produced in Arkansas in the 1940s, Isabelle Boccon-Gibod, self-taught and autonomous in her practice, has played with the same frontality to express the idea that our bodies, when assembled, form architectures. That in the absence of a smile, the face offers a singular neutrality of expression: the masks fall off and all that remains is a nudity (a naked truth?) that must be admired and deciphered beyond the appearances of any social game. This principle of a raw structure, where the eyes catch, has guided her work, without limiting herself to it.

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She started using photography when she was living in England. A graduate of the Ecole Centrale de Paris, a former student at Columbia University, and with a brilliant career in the paper industry, she is now a member of several boards of directors of industrial companies. In parallel, she leads a career as an author: she published Fors intérieurs, rendez-vous avec des mathématiciens (Leo Scheer, 2011), special mention of the Price d’Alembert (2012) then Entre leurs mains, enquête sur l’exercice du pouvoir (Plein jour, 2014). Structure is her second photographic work, after Sous les ponts, Paris, published in 2014 by Verlhac. She has exhibited (photographs and videos) in Paris, Brussels and Haifa, and has taught the history of photography in England.

Daniel Mendelsohn is an internationally bestselling author, critic, essayist, and translator.

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With Structure, Isabelle Boccon-Gibod reinvents the family portrait and provokes us, in these times of digitalization and shared images, to refl ect on the fundamental cell on which every society is based: the family, subject at the center of heated debates when we legislate on parenthood in the context of new technologies of procreation. By creating this corpus of fixed black and white images, each composed in a large 5'x7' frame, the photographer has produced a work of anthropological scope, reaching beyond representation by placing the subject at palpable distance, thereby objectifying it. What should we think of these seemingly impassive faces and their hypnotic gazes, what should we think of these postures, seated or standing? What goes on within these families and outside the frame? The use of a rigid protocol similar in all sessions makes every family portraits intriguing, and encourages our reflection. Inspired by the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose esthetics of objectivity tended towards minimalism, Isabelle Boccon-Gibod, a self-made artist, with an interest for technique, has played with a frontality quite similar to that of the Bechers, resting on the idea that our bodies, when joined together, form a sort of architecture. The idea, also, that a face, deprived of its smile, offers a neutrality of expression worth considering: masks fall and reveal a nakedness (naked truth?) to be admired and deciphered beyond the appearances of social games. She was guided, yet not limited, by this principle: the image of a family seen as a façade-like structure, in which faces are the windows.

Isabelle Boccon-Gibod began making use of photography when she lived in England, and has largely devoted herself to it since her return to Paris in 2004. She has taught History of Photography at the Paris College of Arts. A graduate of the Ecole Centrale School of Engineering and a former student at Columbia University, after a brilliant career in the paper industry, she now serves as non-executive director on the boards of six industrial companies. In addition, she has made a career as an author : she has published Fors intérieurs, rendez-vous avec des mathématiciens (Leo Scheer, 2011), which received a special mention from the d'Alembert Prize (2012) and Entre leurs mains, enquête sur l'exercice du pouvoir (Plein jour, 2014). Structure is her second book of photographs, after Sous les ponts, Paris, published in 2014 by Editions Verlhac. She has shown her photographs and videos in Paris, Brussels and Haifa.

Daniel Mendelsohn has won numerous awards including the National Book Critics Circle in 2006, the French 2007 prix Médicis for foreign literature and the Book of the Year prize (given by Lire magazine) for his book The Lost. His latest works are An Odyssey: a Father, a Son and an Epic (2017) and Three Rings (2020). For his introduction to Structure, he wove together links between Isabelle Boccon- Gibod's work and his own family history. It comes as no surprise that a writer such as Daniel Mendelsohn would be so moved by these portraits. It can clearly be stated here that literature is a photograph without images, and photography, a fi ction without words.

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Verlag
HEMERIA
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
2490952056
ISBN 13 
9782490952052
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