56 Days in Arles by François Halard
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Antwerp. Libraryman. 2020. First Edition of 1000. Hardcover, clothbound cover with tipped-in image. Book Condition: Like New. Cover Condition: Like New. 68pp. (ill. in colour).
Edited and designed by Tony Cederteg.
Foreward by Oscar Humphries.
With 56 colour plates.
Authentic tip-in image on front cover with typography on spine.
This photobook by François Halard is a record of confinement: 56 polaroids from 56 days spent in an Arles hotel, a visual mediation on the close quarters between intimacy and claustrophobia. Prefaced by a foreward from the art world’s Oscar Humphries, the album Halard presents is of a world that drags on, like a hose on sidewalk chalk and the picture sliding down itself, spreading out and falling off. The dreamy sequence of photographs possesses a velveteen surface, obfuscating particulars of the scenes themselves to maintain a texture of presence: in a colourful presentation of such non-time and non-space, Halard’s pastel-rubbed photography stages encounters with the page as immediate as our perception of our surroundings.
Edited and designed by Tony Cederteg.
Foreward by Oscar Humphries.
With 56 colour plates.
Authentic tip-in image on front cover with typography on spine.
This photobook by François Halard is a record of confinement: 56 polaroids from 56 days spent in an Arles hotel, a visual mediation on the close quarters between intimacy and claustrophobia. Prefaced by a foreward from the art world’s Oscar Humphries, the album Halard presents is of a world that drags on, like a hose on sidewalk chalk and the picture sliding down itself, spreading out and falling off. The dreamy sequence of photographs possesses a velveteen surface, obfuscating particulars of the scenes themselves to maintain a texture of presence: in a colourful presentation of such non-time and non-space, Halard’s pastel-rubbed photography stages encounters with the page as immediate as our perception of our surroundings.
