ALL ABOUT LOVE - Jean-Christian Bourcart, Nan Goldin
Since the 1990s, Jean-Christian Bourcart has been plunging into the depths of the sex scene, from where he brings back images, stolen, with shattered grains, suggestive blur and dripping colors. It all began when a magazine sent him to report on the brothels of Frankfurt. Three prohibitions: no women, no photos, no film. He immersed himself in the buildings reserved for the sex trade, a world apart in raw colors. In the pocket of his rigged jacket, an overly noisy camera, he stops in front of the rooms and clicks the shutter, the position of the voyeuristic photographer assumed.
This book offers us a crude glimpse into the world of sexual nightlife, whether in brothels or swingers' clubs, opening the doors to a fellinian or pasolinian universe, little-known and often the object of fantasies. Behind the apparent violence of the relationships seems to develop a certain tenderness between the different actors, which some of the gestures captured in these images seem to reveal. The images, taken on the spot, blend blue and red tones with the motion-induced blur necessary to keep the operation secret. In this way, he allows us to go beyond preconceptions, thus achieving his primary objective: to make visible practices that are often hidden.
Published by LOCO éditions
Size: 19.5 × 28 cm
144 pages, hardcover
ISBN: 9782919507344
Since the 1990s, Jean-Christian Bourcart has been plunging into the depths of the sex scene, from where he brings back images, stolen, with shattered grains, suggestive blur and dripping colors. It all began when a magazine sent him to report on the brothels of Frankfurt. Three prohibitions: no women, no photos, no film. He immersed himself in the buildings reserved for the sex trade, a world apart in raw colors. In the pocket of his rigged jacket, an overly noisy camera, he stops in front of the rooms and clicks the shutter, the position of the voyeuristic photographer assumed.
This book offers us a crude glimpse into the world of sexual nightlife, whether in brothels or swingers' clubs, opening the doors to a fellinian or pasolinian universe, little-known and often the object of fantasies. Behind the apparent violence of the relationships seems to develop a certain tenderness between the different actors, which some of the gestures captured in these images seem to reveal. The images, taken on the spot, blend blue and red tones with the motion-induced blur necessary to keep the operation secret. In this way, he allows us to go beyond preconceptions, thus achieving his primary objective: to make visible practices that are often hidden.
Published by LOCO éditions
Size: 19.5 × 28 cm
144 pages, hardcover
ISBN: 9782919507344
Since the 1990s, Jean-Christian Bourcart has been plunging into the depths of the sex scene, from where he brings back images, stolen, with shattered grains, suggestive blur and dripping colors. It all began when a magazine sent him to report on the brothels of Frankfurt. Three prohibitions: no women, no photos, no film. He immersed himself in the buildings reserved for the sex trade, a world apart in raw colors. In the pocket of his rigged jacket, an overly noisy camera, he stops in front of the rooms and clicks the shutter, the position of the voyeuristic photographer assumed.
This book offers us a crude glimpse into the world of sexual nightlife, whether in brothels or swingers' clubs, opening the doors to a fellinian or pasolinian universe, little-known and often the object of fantasies. Behind the apparent violence of the relationships seems to develop a certain tenderness between the different actors, which some of the gestures captured in these images seem to reveal. The images, taken on the spot, blend blue and red tones with the motion-induced blur necessary to keep the operation secret. In this way, he allows us to go beyond preconceptions, thus achieving his primary objective: to make visible practices that are often hidden.
Published by LOCO éditions
Size: 19.5 × 28 cm
144 pages, hardcover
ISBN: 9782919507344
