Monday, April 12, 2010

Donna Beautiful Agany

Between here and up there

They borrow their names to Edouard Glissant, Boris Vian, Guy de Maupassant and Louis Aragon, Pierre Mendes-France, François Mitterrand and Jacques Duclos. They, twenty-three libraries and media centers of Seine Saint-Denis.

Denancé He called Michael, is a photographer specializing in architecture, one can discover his work on his site .

Vesna Vulovic Her name is stewardess, Yugoslav, and drops ten thousand feet after the explosion of his plane - at least, one can believe that.

is called Claro, he is the translator of some of Anglo-Saxon contemporaries boldest (including Thomas Pynchon, William T. Vollmann, recently Paul Verhaegen ), he published a dozen fiction (Electric Chair, Madman Bovary ,...), he co -manages the collection Lot 49 Editions du Cherche-Midi. You can follow this gifted writing on his blog cannibal The keyboard - it is also the title of his collection of essays on literature and translation published last year in the Inculte editions.

the occasion of the 2010 Wounds , an event organized by the Library Association of Seine Saint-Denis, Michel Denancé Claro and crossed eyes and writes for thousand billion environments, published by Editions mouthpieces air in the collection "Collateral."

The photographer has focused his work not on the library-media centers themselves, but on their immediate environment, within ten meters of buildings. Its horizontal images at breast height, frontal, neutral - one might almost say objective, without figures or rhetorical lyricism - alternate through the pages teeming with style, full, inventive Claro in a text that said the fall. " We did not resist the temptation to assemble them into a form publishing shifted, leading by example with a sense of reading inverted text to reinforce the idea of descent and easier to read images " says the editor.

And it's very successful, we feel a real pleasure to navigate between text and images to discover with surprise that such a nature photo overrun with honeysuckle emerging in the fall, yes, it's in Clichy-sous Bois; these architectures as we do longer, yes, but it could be Villetaneuse elsewhere that these streets, these hubs, these public settings that seem to surprised snapshots flight in a sleepy little town of Deux-Sevres, yes, it is also Seine Saint-Denis.

And the text of Claro unwinds, relaxes, queue, queue at the option of dropping the hostess thoughts between heaven and earth, draws typographical fantasies in as many winks as here:

I'll


more quickly than

the death



Excerpt from Claro, by invitation to discover this book for which I have a real favorite:
" A scientist was amused to calculate the time it took my fall, he knew my weight, it was not difficult but the result he was successful, and I do not remember, I was not satisfied. I was questioned on it and I said that the figure might be correct but false unity, should not count in seconds but in years. My fall lasted several years, even if nobody believes me. But these are years-sky, very different light-years and years-out, closer-years love, in fact. "


Claro, Michel Denancé, thousand billion media (The beak in the air, 2010)


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