Clément Cheroux / Si la vue vaut d’être vécue

Si la vue vaut d’être vécue offers a dozen stories of images: from the very first photograph taken by Nicéphore Niépce to a stolen snapshot of Britney Spears, including a nude by Henri Cartier-Bresson, anonymous images and some contemporary works.

Throughout this book, where the pleasure of the text surfaces on each page, it is about a vicious Bible, aphrodisiac pills, a parachute inventor, motionless mummies and guillotined ghosts. On the pretext of confusing life and sight, Clément Chéroux offers a unique account of his experience of images. With deliberately mocking and jubilant erudition, he explains why, for almost three decades, he has spent most of his time searching, looking at, sharing photographs, talking, reading or writing about this very particular genre of recording of the world. He recounts the discovery of images that had the effect of an earthquake on him. He questions the symptoms of what he describes as a non-benign form of photographic epistemophilia.

Published by Editions Textuel
French

12 x 18 cm
200 pages
2019