CUBA - Agnès Varda
Agnès Varda (1928-2019) visited Cuba in December 1962, just two months after the "missile crisis". Like many French intellectuals and artists, she was fascinated by the energy in and around Havana. For her, Cuba was an astonishing blend of omnipresent politics and natural sensuality, the unexpected meeting of "socialism and cha-cha-cha". She brought back thousands of candid photographs with the idea of making a film. Although not conceived as art photography, this series of shots creates a tension between still and moving images, a link between photography and cinema that would become the core of her work. They reveal Agnès Varda's lively but always benevolent style. The book also presents a few pages from the montage extracted from her archives, as well as an interview and three essays that situate the artist's work in its time (François Hourmant), decode the links between photography and cinema (Valérie Vignaux and Karolina Lewandowska), and take a look at her body of work (Clément Chéroux).
Published by Éditions Xavier Barral
Co-published with Éditions du Centre Pompidou
21.5 x 29 cm
Agnès Varda (1928-2019) visited Cuba in December 1962, just two months after the "missile crisis". Like many French intellectuals and artists, she was fascinated by the energy in and around Havana. For her, Cuba was an astonishing blend of omnipresent politics and natural sensuality, the unexpected meeting of "socialism and cha-cha-cha". She brought back thousands of candid photographs with the idea of making a film. Although not conceived as art photography, this series of shots creates a tension between still and moving images, a link between photography and cinema that would become the core of her work. They reveal Agnès Varda's lively but always benevolent style. The book also presents a few pages from the montage extracted from her archives, as well as an interview and three essays that situate the artist's work in its time (François Hourmant), decode the links between photography and cinema (Valérie Vignaux and Karolina Lewandowska), and take a look at her body of work (Clément Chéroux).
Published by Éditions Xavier Barral
Co-published with Éditions du Centre Pompidou
21.5 x 29 cm
Agnès Varda (1928-2019) visited Cuba in December 1962, just two months after the "missile crisis". Like many French intellectuals and artists, she was fascinated by the energy in and around Havana. For her, Cuba was an astonishing blend of omnipresent politics and natural sensuality, the unexpected meeting of "socialism and cha-cha-cha". She brought back thousands of candid photographs with the idea of making a film. Although not conceived as art photography, this series of shots creates a tension between still and moving images, a link between photography and cinema that would become the core of her work. They reveal Agnès Varda's lively but always benevolent style. The book also presents a few pages from the montage extracted from her archives, as well as an interview and three essays that situate the artist's work in its time (François Hourmant), decode the links between photography and cinema (Valérie Vignaux and Karolina Lewandowska), and take a look at her body of work (Clément Chéroux).
Published by Éditions Xavier Barral
Co-published with Éditions du Centre Pompidou
21.5 x 29 cm
