Philippe Bazin
Photographe
Philippe Bazin a étudié la photographie à l’ENSP Arles entre 1986 et 1989. Après faces, 1990, Adolescents, 1995, Les Bourgeois de Calais, 1995 et Nés, 1999, il publie un ouvrage définitif sur son travail sur les visages, La Radicalisation du Monde en 2009. Son travail artistique se développe depuis le début des années 2000 autour des relations entre esthétique et politique. Parmi ses ouvrages récents : Le Milieu de nulle part (en collaboration avec Christiane Vollaire), ed. Créaphis, 2012 ; John Brown’s Body, 2016 ; Les Coupes, 2017 ; Pour une Photographie documentaire critique, ed. Créaphis, 2017 ; Vider Calais, 2019.
Jeff Wall
Philippe Bazin
With Jeff Wall, Refonder la modernité (refounding modernity), Philippe Bazin gives us his artist's point of view on the work of a world-renowned photographer. Constantly inviting surrealism in banality, Jeff Wall has become master of the familiar strangeness. Philippe Bazin offers us with a panorama of Wall’s work, from his very first pieces in the late 1970s until the dawn of the 2000s. By doing so, he sheds light on some thirty photographs, reproduced in large format, by comparing them with the Baudelairian ideal of the "painter of modern life" which has permeated the Canadian artist's practice and thinking from the outset. This book has the advantage of being a fluid, intellectual and sensitive dialogue between two photographers on the lookout for the "fantastic real extracted from life" that Baudelaire had glimpsed.
Jeff Wall
24 x 32 cm, 56 pages, circa 35 reproductions in quadrichromy, paperback. Text: French / English. Graphic design: L’atelier d’édition.