
Ivresse de l'œil
- Publisher
- Filigranes Éditions
- Year
- 2019
- ISBN
- 9782350464862
- Specifications
- hardcover
215 x 215 mm
100 colour and black-and-white photographs
120 pages
English/French
limited edition of 600 copies
Travelling the planet, Jacques Borgetto observes the signs and forms reality playfully offers him, restoring them in a mosaic of images whose cut-style montage reveals unexpected correspondences: a black girl in a white dress carrying flowers echoing waves rolling over rocks, beach games beside a country chapel, a television aerial beside a birdcage, a mother sheltering her child under an umbrella beside an anonymous town square seen through glass. Having traded the heavy 4x5 camera for the lightness of a mobile phone, the globetrotting photographer bets on the instantaneity of what suddenly appears rather than on the apparatus that constructs a beautiful image.