Signed Mathieu Pernot - The asylum of photographs - 2013

Unique and unobtainable today even in an unsigned copy, this copy is exceptionally signed on the title page by Mathieu Pernot (born 1970). 275 pages and nearly 200 photographs from diverse origins, including 24 color photographs by Mathieu Pernot, texts in French by Philippe Artières. Sturdy cloth binding (no dust jacket as issued).

Photographer Mathieu Pernot and historian Philippe Artières worked for three years at the Picauville psychiatric hospital / Bon-Sauveur Foundation (Manche). This place of memory sums up the entire evolution of psychiatry since the 19th century, but above all it houses exceptional black-and-white and color photographic archives from different periods. Struck by the power of these images, Mathieu Pernot and Philippe Artières decide to make them the very subject of their work. Mathieu Pernot creates color photographs of the abandoned asylum while Philippe Artières tells this experience through the assembling of written archives. The work as a whole is less a history of psychiatry in images than a history of hospital photography. Here we discover the places at different eras, the patients and the staff inside the hospital but also on outings outside, or in carnivals or theatrical performances. The asylum of photographs is at once this collection of forgotten images and a memory returned to the anonymous people who were the authors and the subjects. This book received the Nadar Prize awarded by Gens d’Images in 2013 and Mathieu Pernot received the Niepce Prize in 2014, the very year when the Musée du Jeu de Paume in Paris dedicated a major exhibition to him.

Born in Fréjus, Mathieu Pernot lives and works in Paris. During his studies at the École nationale supérieure de la photographie d’Arles, Mathieu Pernot meets Gypsy families in Arles, including the Gorgan, with whom he continues to work thereafter. Over the course of the 2000s, he develops various series devoted to confinement, urban planning and the migratory issue.

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1,350 kg excluding packaging