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Gerard Petrus Fieret

Editions Xavier Barral 2016 ISBN 9782365110990 Acqn 26285
Pb 18x26cm 592pp 297ills 46.95
Dutch artist, poet and photographer Gerard P. Fieret (1924-2009) has created some of the
strangest and most subversive works produced in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. An
obsessional and insatiable photographer, taking pictures of anything and everything. He did focus
on subjects he was particularly fond of: women, legs, children, shop windows, street scenes, and
himself. His presence, the interaction and complicity with his subjects, often quite sensual, are
representative of his work. Fieret has continuously experimented and pushed the boundaries of
the photographic medium with his reflex Praktica through solarization, double exposure,
scratching the negatives, etc.
Echoing the fluidity and distortion of reality in Fierets work, this major monograph (592 pages)
using very thin paper offers a poetic dialogue between the photographs thanks to the play of
transparency. Four critical essays by Win van Sinderen, Hripsim Visser, Francesco Zanot et
Violette Gillet bring new light on the singular personality of Fieret and the multiple aspects of his
work in relation with the history of photography and the arts.

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Louis Stettner - Ici Ailleurs

Editions Xavier Barral 2016 ISBN 9782365111003 Acqn 26344
Hb 19x28cm 160pp 90ills 38.95
Text in French
From his very first photograph in New York in 1936 to his recent work in the Alpilles forest, this
monograph testifies of the wealth of Louis Stettner's work. He makes the link between the
humanist photography and the American street photography by giving a poetic and uncluttered
vision of the world that surrounds us.
Through his long career, Stettner knew how to catch with an incomparable eye the urban
atmospheres, from the post-war Paris to the boiling city of New York at the same time, then the
beat generation of East Village, movements of political contestations in the 1970s in the United
States or the gestures of the work in the series Workers on both sides of the Atlantic ocean.
Photographer and art critic at the same time, the book also presents a long interview of the artist
with Clment Chroux and Julie Jones where Stettner evokes his influences, his inspirations and
his reflections on the photography. In a selection of articles published during his collaboration with
the American magazine Camera 35 in the 1970s, Louis Stettner broaches, without waffle, the
artistic context of the time, his friendship with Brassa, Lisette Model and Weegee. He claims the
influence of the Photo League and defends the social commitment in photography.

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