Congo
Géographique
Afrique centrale, République démocratique du Congo (RDC), Congo-BrazzavilleThématique
photographie, album, beau-livreFiche validée
| Titre | Congo |
|---|---|
| Type de publication | Livre |
| Langue principale de la publication | anglais |
| Année de publication | 2015 |
| Auteur |  Alain MABANCKOUAlex Majoli Paolo PELLEGRIN |
| Éditeur | Aperture |
| Ville | New York |
| Genre | beau-livre |
| Pays d'édition | États-Unis |
| ISBN (Forme EAN-13) | 9781597113250 |
| Résumé/Présentation | "In this sumptuously printed, large-format publication, distinguished Magnum photographers Paolo Pellegrin and Alex Majoli present a collaborative document of the Congo and its people. Bringing together the best of each photographer?s personal styles as well as experimental forays into abstraction and collage, this volume captures what Alain Mabanckou describes as a full range of the landscape, ?from urban scenes to great forests and back, reflecting the way it is in most African societies today.? With no captions or individual photo credits, the densely printed images'presented on full-bleed pages, as gatefolds, or as double-spread gatefolds'become wholly immersive. Mabanckou writes in his introduction that, ?for the duration of this project [the photographers] must have become full-time ?Congolese,? living with the people in cities and in villages, sharing their joys and sorrows, crossing rivers and floods, stepping over public garbage bins, mingling with crowds of wildly excited children, roaming the banks of tributaries and streams, watching the endurance of the river dock workers.? The outcome is a profound study of Congo, and the resulting object exemplifies the expressive possibilities of contemporary documentary photography. Congo is available in a limited run of 500 copies in the English Language." (site de l'éditeur, 05.2018) |
| Référence complète | Congo. Photographs by Alex Majoli and Paolo Pellegrin. Words by Alain Mabanckou. New York : Aperture, 2015, 260 p., ill.,, (202 duotone and 56 four-color images Hardcover with box and booklet), 15.25 x 11.5 inches. - ISBN : 978-1-59711-325-0. |
Auteurs
Alain MABANCKOU
Biographie : Alain Mabanckou est né en 1966 au Congo-Brazzaville. Professeur de littérature francophone à l'université de Californie-Los Angeles (UCLA), il est notamment l'auteur de Verre Cassé et de Mémoires de porc-épic (prix Renaudot 2006) (site éditeur, juin 2012)
Nationalité : Congo-Brazzaville
