MATTER TESTS
Under the direction of Héloïse Conesa
Published by The (M) éditions and BnF Éditions, 2023
Book size 16.5x24cm
256 pages
Softcover 40 images
Language French
How do photographers represent natural or artificial materials? How do they interrogate matter using their own technical and artistic means? Why do they hybridize photography with the graphic arts or video? The question of matter runs through the history of photography. Putting matter to the test of photography and photography to the test of matter: this is the purpose of the BNF exhibition, from which this book has selected 40 photographs, followed by 4 essays from which a new matter emerges: that of reflection.
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How do photographers represent natural or artificial materials? How do they question matter with their own technical and plastic means? Why do they end up hybridizing photography with graphic arts or video? The question of matter runs through the history of photography. Putting matter to the test of photography and photography to the test of matter: this is the purpose of the BNF exhibition from which this book has selected 40 photographs, followed by 4 essays from which a new matter emerges: that of reflection.