Luc Choquer - Planète France - 1989

Luc Choquer – Planète France – Contrejour – 1989 -
Original edition - First edition

Planète France constitutes one of the foundational works of Luc Choquer’s career and a singular testimony on France in the late 1980s.

An important photographic book by Luc Choquer, published by Contrejour in 1989, with a text by Didier Daeninckx.

Through his color photographs, Choquer observes a popular, everyday France, and sometimes offbeat: beaches, families, leisure, celebrations, interiors, streets and ordinary scenes. His gaze, at once documentary, direct and tinged with humor, composes a true social portrait of the country.

The book is today particularly representative of the renewal of French documentary photography in the 1980s. Claude Nori described Planète France as a first contemporary portrait of France and its inhabitants, contributing to the renewal of French social photography.

The images, often frontal and very colorful, possess that immediately recognizable aesthetic which would later become Luc Choquer’s reputation, a few years later he would be awarded the Niépce Prize.

Bibliographic characteristics:
Photographer: Luc Choquer
Title: Planète France
Text: Didier Daeninckx
Publisher: Contrejour
Place: Paris
Year: 1989
Edition: first edition
Language: French
Photographs: color
Pagination: 79 pages
Format: 31 x 25 cm
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket

Condition: Very beautiful copy, in excellent condition.
Cover, corners and interior very well preserved. Clean pages, fresh colors, no annotations or notable defects visible. Dust jacket with very minor traces, with no tears or losses.
The photographs are an integral part of the description and allow a precise appreciation of the book’s condition.

Very fine copy of a French photobook from the 1980s that has become relatively scarce, particularly interesting for collectors of documentary photography and books published by Contrejour.

Will be shipped in a careful, sturdy, and traceable package.