Contre-culture dans la photographie contemporaine, Michel Poivert

By reconnecting with the tangible, photography enters a period of transition. This work reveals the vitality of a new part of the contemporary photographic creation. For the last twenty years or so, many photographers have been developing original practices, concerned with ethics and ecology. Far from embodying marginal experiences, these alternatives form on the contrary a powerful groundswell. Some artists value old processes, a slow temporality and forms of co-creation. Many appropriate vernacular archives by hybridizing photography with manual arts like collage and embroidery. Still others amplify photography through installations. Activism and poetry mix to propose worlds where it is a question of materiality, gesture, reconciliation and resilience: it is in the body of photography that artists seek to reread the world and invent new ones, through utopias where the imaginary allows to go beyond the cult of images. By reconnecting to the tangible, photography enters a period of transition.

Book published with the support of the French Ministry of Culture and the Antoine de Galbert Foundation

Editions Textuels, Oct. 2022
Text in French
180 artworks, 130 photographers
Hard cover
28 x 22 cm
304 pages
ISBN: 9782845978690