"The Animal Side is a manifesto on the importance of animals for human thought. It attempts to characterize the importance, for human beings, of the fact that animals exist. Adopting a philosophical and poetic approach, the book seeks to show that animals’ ways of inhabiting the earth are, for human consciousness, an expansion and an exploration of what philosophers and poets have tried to name by speaking of the Open.Beginning with the ..."
"A compelling and innovative reflection on the way photography captures and condenses timeTwo photographs, connected by a ladder, separated by a century. First, William Henry Fox Talbot photographed a faithfully realistic image of a ladder against a haystack in the English countryside.One hundred years later, an anonymous photographer captured another ladder, “photographed” alongside an incinerated man by the blinding light of the atomic ..."
"This is the first book to catalog comparative maps and tableaux that visualize the heights and lengths of the world's mountains and rivers. Produced predominantly in the nineteenth century, these beautifully rendered maps emerged out of the tide of exploration and scientific developments in measuring techniques. Beginning with the work of explorer Alexander von Humboldt, these historic drawings reveal a world of artistic and imaginative ..."
"Via the story of two images separated by a century, Jean-Christophe Bailly's The Instant and Its Shadow is a poetic and theoretical reflection on the origins of photographic technique, the imaginative power of montage, and the relation of ..."
"The Animal Side is a manifesto on the importance of animals for human thought. It attempts to characterize the importance, for human beings, of the fact that animals exist. Adopting a philosophical and poetic approach, the book seeks to show that animals' ways of inhabiting the earth are, for human consciousness, an expansion and an exploration of what philosophers and poets have tried to name by speaking of the Open.Beginning with the ..."
"Arnaud Claass, Journal de travail (20 février 1997–19 février 1998) (Toulouse:
Maxence Fabiani/Les Imaginayres, 1999), 37. 13. Rosalind Krauss, “The
Photographic Conditions of Surrealism,” October 19 (Winter 1981): 26. 14. Jean-
Marie ..."
(Zus) by Benoît Fougeirol, Jean-ChristopheBailly Paperback, 375 Pages, Published 2017 by X Artists' Books ISBN-13: 978-0-9988616-3-0, ISBN: 0-9988616-3-4
"In (Zus), a visual essay by the French photographer Benoît Fougeirol, views of and views from eleven of the "Zones urbaines sensibles" (Sensitive Urban Zones) on the peripheries of Paris reveal harsh paradoxes of modern society. These poor, marginal districts were defined by administrative boundaries in response to the "emergence of a social problem." Through the synecdoche of architecture-its materials, patterns, and surfaces-Fougeirol ..."
"Critical analyses, case studies, and artist interviews examine works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer. How are we to understand works of art that are realized with the physical involvement of the viewer? A relationship between a work of art and its audience that is rooted in an experience that is both aesthetic and physical? Today, these works often use digital technologies, but artists have created p ..."
""After the face, the hand is the part of the human body which is the most independent, the most distinctive and the most particular. (...) Hands in painting - whether they be lyrical, delicate, lively and alert, or else violent, nervy and tragic - are never mere details, as can be seen in these drawings, but are focal points which contain and distribue the energy of a picture. " Jean-Christophe Bailly"
George Shiras(1st Edition) In the Heart of the Dark Night (Beaux livres) by Jean-ChristopheBailly, George Shiras, Sonia Voss Hardcover, 96 Pages, Published 2015 by Editions Xavier Barral ISBN-13: 978-2-36511-091-4, ISBN: 2-36511-091-6
"Though sometimes dubbed "the first wildlife photographer," George Shiras is not a prominent name in the history of photography. While his photos were shown at the Paris World Fair of 1900, Shiras--also a lawyer and politician--did not consider himself an artist; his goal was, above all, to document wildlife from the pre-environmental perspective to which he dedicated his life. In 1893, Shiras perfected the procedure of nocturnal flash p ..."
"Au lieu d'invoquer en passant la " biodiversité ", entrer dans la multiplicité hétérogène du vivant, descendre dans le jeu entrecroisé des conduites et des écarts par lesquels sans fin le monde animal se déploie."