Signed; Harry Gruyaert - Rivages - 2022

Highly anticipated—the first two editions (2003 and 2008) having long been out of print—here at last is an entirely new edition of Rivages by Harry Gruyaert.
With its new format, this Rivages is more generous: 40 new shorelines, most of them previously unpublished.

From the beaches of Normandy to those of India, Morocco, and Egypt, Harry Gruyaert has been capturing for nearly 40 years the subtle chromatic vibrations of Eastern and Western coasts. Threatening skies and their play of shadows highlight the sudden brilliance of the instant and of chance, when light floods the space. This “poetic moment” underlies Gruyaert’s work, for whom photography allows the conditions of wonder to emerge.

Clouded, menacing, or clear skies, games of shadow, and the alchemy of horizons reveal the obsessions of his gaze. The photographer seeks the flash of the instant, when light floods and carves out the space. Fifteen years after the first edition of a now-legendary series, Harry Gruyaert enriches it with some fifty new images that explore the inexhaustible possibilities of poetic wonder.
Reprint of the 2018 edition, preface by Richard Nonas, color photographs.