GEORGES ROUSSE

Georges Rousse is an internationally renowned photographer, known particularly for his anamorphoses photographed in locations destined for demolition or renovation. He has won numerous awards and was named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2017.

This selection is marked by the omnipresence of an essential link between text and photography, as well as by black-and-white images in almost all the books, thus revealing the intimate relationship Georges Rousse has with photography. Additionally, the selection shows a strong interest in the personal vision of artists (The Disappearance of Fireflies, writings on the image, Denis Roche, 1983, Edition de l’étoile & Seuil), their experiences (Haut Jorat, Gustave Roud, 2011, Fata Morgana Payot), and their personal relationship with photography itself (Photographs, Claude Simon, 1992, Maeght Publisher). Georges Rousse also highlights his interest in photo novels since the book Real Dreams by Duane Michals (ed. Le Chêne, 1977) was one of his first photography book purchases. However, this selection also gives pride of place to beautiful objects such as the book Butterfly (Kansuke Yamamoto, Fapa, 2017) or those published by Creaphis editions: Scotland by Jacques Roubaud and Jean-Pierre Gilson and Echoes of Silence by François Cheng & Patrick Le Bescont.

The quote by Hervé Guibert published in Photographers (ed. Gallimard) perfectly encapsulates Georges Rousse’s selection: “I dream that photographers start writing and writers take photos, that there is no longer any intimidation between them, that each activity becomes the ineffable, the unnameable.”

A "selection in his image, both delicate and full of sensitivity, oscillating between photography and poetry," as explained by Thierry Bigaignon.