ADDRESS BOOK - Arnaud Baumann
Photography, like all art forms, is a quest for something. For the self? For truth?
For provocation?
Twenty-five years ago, the liberated post-'68 generation could enjoy many pleasures without too much fear of unemployment, not yet of AIDS, and less than today of ideological and religious extremism.
In the '80s, the imminent fall of the Berlin Wall and a Europe on the move were about to abolish some of the borders and archaic miseries that had been set up between peoples... We lived in the hope of a better world. A freer world.
My thirst for freedom, combined with a search for identity, led me to pose my friends and relations in the simplest of poses, detached from any aesthetic considerations.
" Carnet d'Adresses" (DTV ed.), a collection of nude portraits of the famous and unknown, proclaimed the truth of the gaze, without complex or complacency.
At a time when European entente is struggling to survive, other threats - climatic or conflict-related - are darkening the horizon.
Added to this is the return of the narrow morality of our elders.
My ever-vital quest for truth leads me to risk shock by showing this personal, unbridled but assumed work, the uncompromising work of my early years as a photographer.
Arnaud Baumann, Paris 2024
Book Photography - Arnaud Baumann - Language : French
Author(s): Arnaud BaumannPublisher: Le Dernier Terrain VagueLanguage: FrenchFormat: Large, + de 1kg
Author(s) : Arnaud Baumann
Publisher: Le Dernier Terrain Vague
Language: French
Size: Large, over 1kg
1983
Photography, like all art forms, is a quest for something. For the self? For truth?
For provocation?
Twenty-five years ago, the liberated post-'68 generation could enjoy many pleasures without too much fear of unemployment, not yet of AIDS, and less than today of ideological and religious extremism.
In the '80s, the imminent fall of the Berlin Wall and a Europe on the move were about to abolish some of the borders and archaic miseries that had been set up between peoples... We lived in the hope of a better world. A freer world.
My thirst for freedom, combined with a search for identity, led me to pose my friends and relations in the simplest of poses, detached from any aesthetic considerations.
" Carnet d'Adresses" (DTV ed.), a collection of nude portraits of the famous and unknown, proclaimed the truth of the gaze, without complex or complacency.
At a time when European entente is struggling to survive, other threats - climatic or conflict-related - are darkening the horizon.
Added to this is the return of the narrow morality of our elders.
My ever-vital quest for truth leads me to risk shock by showing this personal, unbridled but assumed work, the uncompromising work of my early years as a photographer.
Arnaud Baumann, Paris 2024
Book Photography - Arnaud Baumann - Language : French
Author(s): Arnaud BaumannPublisher: Le Dernier Terrain VagueLanguage: FrenchFormat: Large, + de 1kg
Author(s) : Arnaud Baumann
Publisher: Le Dernier Terrain Vague
Language: French
Size: Large, over 1kg
1983
Photography, like all art forms, is a quest for something. For the self? For truth?
For provocation?
Twenty-five years ago, the liberated post-'68 generation could enjoy many pleasures without too much fear of unemployment, not yet of AIDS, and less than today of ideological and religious extremism.
In the '80s, the imminent fall of the Berlin Wall and a Europe on the move were about to abolish some of the borders and archaic miseries that had been set up between peoples... We lived in the hope of a better world. A freer world.
My thirst for freedom, combined with a search for identity, led me to pose my friends and relations in the simplest of poses, detached from any aesthetic considerations.
" Carnet d'Adresses" (DTV ed.), a collection of nude portraits of the famous and unknown, proclaimed the truth of the gaze, without complex or complacency.
At a time when European entente is struggling to survive, other threats - climatic or conflict-related - are darkening the horizon.
Added to this is the return of the narrow morality of our elders.
My ever-vital quest for truth leads me to risk shock by showing this personal, unbridled but assumed work, the uncompromising work of my early years as a photographer.
Arnaud Baumann, Paris 2024
Book Photography - Arnaud Baumann - Language : French
Author(s): Arnaud BaumannPublisher: Le Dernier Terrain VagueLanguage: FrenchFormat: Large, + de 1kg
Author(s) : Arnaud Baumann
Publisher: Le Dernier Terrain Vague
Language: French
Size: Large, over 1kg
1983
