The philosopher Gilles Tiberghien is known for his work on landscape and particularly for his research around Land Art, his writings and meetings with the greatest artists who have contributed to the diffusion in France of this important artistic movement born in the United States in the twentieth century. But for a long time, less known by his public, Gilles Tiberghien is interested in photography and writes regularly about contemporary photographers. Paysmages thus brings together a set of texts written over nearly twenty years. The selection of photographers that the author has decided to propose here highlights his reflections on the notion of landscape: “The question here is not how we picture landscapes, through photography, but rather how it crystallizes into these images something that we end up calling landscape.”

Essays on the works of Aurore Bagarry, Thibaut Cuisset, Suzanne Doppelt, Hamish Fulton, Mario Giacomelli, Lucie Jean, Josef Koudelka, Richard Long, Alex MacLean, Manuela Marques, Bernard Plossu, Claire Renier, Bertrand Stofleth and Bill Viola.

This book is the retelling of a decade (2013-2023) of activism for women photographers’ recognition in places of artistic expression and media, which profoundly changed the photography world by opening it to more diversity. For this testimonial-story, Sylviane Van de Moortele met several actors of the cultural sphere at the time (artists, institutions…), both strongly opposed to change and in favor of it. The book especially focuses on photographer Marie Docher’s activist journey, also known as Vincent David, author of the Atalantes & Cariatides blog.

Since the end of the 19^th century, postcards have played an essential role in the pictorial representation of territories. Initially linked to migration, they gradually became a vacation ritual with the rise of paid leaves and mass tourism. Nouvelles du paradis takes an original, dual approach to the postcard, considering it both as an object of correspondence and as an industrialized, editorialized item. Conceived as a reference work, this book links various disciplines’ (history, sociology, ethnology, contemporary art) contributions to paint a very complete picture of the evolution of this popular yet almost extinct medium.