Signed Sophie Ristelhueber - Opérations - 2009

Exceptionally signed copy on the title page by Sophie Ristelhueber (born in 1951), unique and unavailable as a signed copy online. This book presents the complete works of Sophie Ristelhueber up to its publication date in 2009. It contains 448 pages and several hundred photographs in black and white and mainly in color, including over a hundred in double-page spreads. The book also reproduces photographs of the staging of her major exhibitions in various locations. The French text includes contributions by Bruno Latour and David Mellor, as well as numerous introductory texts about her successive works by Sophie Ristelhueber herself. It features a solid yellow hardcover binding with an illustrated dust jacket. The copy is in excellent condition, practically as new.

Sophie Ristelhueber's photographic work has been exhibited worldwide in major institutions, at the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, and in Paris at the Musée national d’art moderne Centre Pompidou, at the Jeu de Paume (retrospective in 2009). (According to Le Figaro, 11/08/2009). Sophie Ristelhueber is the 2025 Hasselblad laureate, one of the most prestigious international awards in photography, and she was the featured guest at Paris Photo 2025.

In her initial work on landscape for DATAR, Sophie Ristelhueber chose a structural and analytical approach to representing railway landscapes. 'I had set myself a precise program including all types of landscapes visible from the railway: industrial, urban, mountain, vineyard, sea, and plain. By proceeding systematically and methodically, after having been everywhere, I quickly realized where I had an interesting point of view' (Jean-François Seguin).

Since then, Sophie Ristelhueber has continued to reflect on territory and its history through a unique approach to ruins and traces engraved on the ground left by humans in places devastated by war or natural upheavals: 'This mixing of elements from various territories – Armenia in 1989, Turkmenistan in 1997, Syria in 1999, Iraq in 2000, the West Bank in 2003-2004 – contributes to this vision of the chaos of history that haunts me since my work in Beirut in 1982.'... In her book, Beirut, Photographs (1984), Sophie Ristelhueber retraced the history of collective violence from the 1970s to the consequences of the Beirut siege by highlighting the traces left on the urban landscape, stone remnants of dissociated events... a grim state of affairs expressed as 'a modern city in ruins.' Beirut thus plays a role in Sophie Ristelhueber's staging of time and civilization, of traces left on the old and the modern, of construction and demolition. Using photography, installation, and publishing, she seeks to lay bare the facts and the imprint of history, in bodies and landscapes, making visible wounds and scars—true memories of trauma.

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1.8 kg without packaging