CUBA - Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (1928-2019) went to Cuba in December 1962, only two months after the "missile crisis". Like many French intellectuals and artists, she was fascinated by the energy in and around Havana. In her eyes, Cuba is an astonishing mixture of omnipresent politics and natural sensuality, the unexpected meeting of "socialism and cha-cha-cha". She brought back thousands of photographs taken on the spot with the idea of making a film. Although not conceived as art photography, this series of photographs creates a tension between still and moving images, a link between photography and cinema that will become the heart of her work. One finds there the style at the same time sharp but always benevolent of Agnès Varda. The book also presents some pages of the montage extracted from her archives as well as an interview and three essays that attempt to place the artist's work in its time (François Hourmant), to decode the links between photography and cinema (Valérie Vignaux and Karolina Lewandowska), and to look at the whole of her work (Clément Chéroux).
Published by Éditions Xavier Barral
In co-publication with Éditions du Centre Pompidou
21.5 x 29 cm
Agnès Varda (1928-2019) went to Cuba in December 1962, only two months after the "missile crisis". Like many French intellectuals and artists, she was fascinated by the energy in and around Havana. In her eyes, Cuba is an astonishing mixture of omnipresent politics and natural sensuality, the unexpected meeting of "socialism and cha-cha-cha". She brought back thousands of photographs taken on the spot with the idea of making a film. Although not conceived as art photography, this series of photographs creates a tension between still and moving images, a link between photography and cinema that will become the heart of her work. One finds there the style at the same time sharp but always benevolent of Agnès Varda. The book also presents some pages of the montage extracted from her archives as well as an interview and three essays that attempt to place the artist's work in its time (François Hourmant), to decode the links between photography and cinema (Valérie Vignaux and Karolina Lewandowska), and to look at the whole of her work (Clément Chéroux).
Published by Éditions Xavier Barral
In co-publication with Éditions du Centre Pompidou
21.5 x 29 cm
Agnès Varda (1928-2019) went to Cuba in December 1962, only two months after the "missile crisis". Like many French intellectuals and artists, she was fascinated by the energy in and around Havana. In her eyes, Cuba is an astonishing mixture of omnipresent politics and natural sensuality, the unexpected meeting of "socialism and cha-cha-cha". She brought back thousands of photographs taken on the spot with the idea of making a film. Although not conceived as art photography, this series of photographs creates a tension between still and moving images, a link between photography and cinema that will become the heart of her work. One finds there the style at the same time sharp but always benevolent of Agnès Varda. The book also presents some pages of the montage extracted from her archives as well as an interview and three essays that attempt to place the artist's work in its time (François Hourmant), to decode the links between photography and cinema (Valérie Vignaux and Karolina Lewandowska), and to look at the whole of her work (Clément Chéroux).
Published by Éditions Xavier Barral
In co-publication with Éditions du Centre Pompidou
21.5 x 29 cm
