Portraits | Florence and Damien Bachelot collection at the Réattu museum
This book, third volume devoted to the collection of Florence and Damien Bachelot, accompanies the exhibition focused on one of the major axes of their collector's vision: the portrait. Presented at the heart of the permanent collections of the Réattu Museum in Arles, as part of the Rencontres de la photographie in 2023, the selected prints interact with the paintings and sculptures of the venue. From Diane Arbus to Saul Leiter, seventy photographs are reproduced in this book, testifying to the richness and sensitivity of an amateur's perspective.
42.00€
Artiste: Collective
Texte de: Patrick de Carolis, Françoise Docquiert, Andy Neyrotti
Langues: Francais, Anglais
Dimensions: 26.7 x 21.7 x 2 cm
Poids: 846 g
Pages: 128
Description
Portraiture is one of the guiding threads of this collection: "The essence of our collection is the human being. This was not a deliberate choice, but rather the result of observing our selections over time. In this spirit, it is only natural that portraiture should be one of the cornerstones of the collection—featuring images of individuals or groups, but also, more broadly, photographs that reflect human situations.", Damien Bachelot
As a faithful or distorted mirror of reality, portraiture reveals the wide range of perspectives photographers bring to their subjects. Through the body, facial features, or gaze, they seek to explore the intricate workings of the human mind. As a genre, portraiture challenges the traditional roles historically assigned to photography—identifying, recognizing, cataloguing, classifying—and sheds light, across time, on the sociological, political, religious, or cultural contexts of our societies.
This publication, with a foreword by Patrick de Carolis, Françoise Docquiert, and Andy Neyrotti, was co-published by Maison CF and the Réattu Museum in Arles, France.
