Elizabeth Lennard, Paris signes

Paris signes

Elizabeth Lennard

Publisher
Filigranes Éditions
Year
2000
ISBN
978-2-910682-99-6
Specifications
softcover
170 x 155 mm
24 pages
20 colour photographs

"[…] Hachoirs, Poussoirs, Trancheurs unrolls Parisian taxonomies, elegantly arranged as they would be in Atget territory. This work, more than six metres long, is the reel in retouched and tinted sequence, following the characteristics of the thirty images of commercial or municipal signs taken throughout Paris. This rather austere processional rhythm may well evoke Last Year at Marienbad. And Lennard's delicate cadences, her reserved intimism, the ineffably caustic air of her sophistication conspire to suggest a cryptic femininity, a quality sometimes found in the dry but savage prose of Duras. […] When Lennard says 'Merci les Parisiennes', one has the feeling of French irony, yet that is indeed what she means. And as she presents these Paris Signes images, she tears them from their destiny of theoretical slavery and returns them to the routines of everyday life." Lisa Liebman.

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