Signed; Valérie Belin - Catalogue Mep + Centre Pompidou - 2007-2017

Welcome to the 1st auction « Masters of French Photobooks » gathered by Anatole Desachy (France) and Ecki Heuser (Germany) at the occasion of the 57th edition of « Rencontres d’Arles » photofestival. From Man Ray & Brassaï avant-garde period of time to Lucien Clergue & Antoine D’Agata who are both linked to this fabulous city, enjoy our impressive selection of photobooks including deluxe, signed & association copies from great photographers !

steidl 2007
Appuyé sur un protocole précis, le travail strictement photographique de Valérie Belin frappe par son caractère à la fois spectaculaire et dépouillé, ainsi que par une rigueur qui n'autorise aucune projection ou dérive narrative. Paradoxalement, cette force d'évidence s'accompagne d'une incertitude troublante. Que voyons-nous exactement ? Avons-nous, par exemple, affaire à du vivant ou à de l'inanimé, à la "chose" même ou à son double, à un original ou à une imitation ? Et qu'est-ce que le vivant aujourd'hui, à l'heure du clonage généralisé ; comment est-il travaillé par l'incertitude, la métamorphose et les puissances du faux ?

damiani 2017
A meticulous survey of French photographer Valérie Belin's stunning series from Magicians, Bouquets and Lido to Brides, Bob, and Black Eyed Susan and continuing up to recent work including Super Models and All Stars.
French photographer Valérie Belin (born 1964) explores matter, the body, the living and the artificial--and the representations of all of these fraught categories--in a body of uncanny photographic work characterized by a fascination with light, detail and surface texture. Valérie Belin presents a survey of the artist's work since 2007, including her most recent series, All Star, a series of portraits of ghostly female figures that cut a vague, melancholy presence against cheery backgrounds derived from comic books.
Coming on the heels of the photographer's celebrated retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, this volume includes a text by Quentin Bajac, Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and offers an immersion into Belin's rare and unusual body of work that presents a photography of confusion and absence, where backgrounds are brought forward in front of their ostensible subjects and models and mannequins become indistinguishable.

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