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 LE MINH ISABELLE - AFTER PHOTOGRAPHY & BEYOND (EN)
In the 1990s, Isabelle Le Minh abandoned a job as a patent engineer in Berlin to devote herself to photography. Graduate of the National School of Photography in Arles in 1996, she teaches photography at the School of Fine Arts in Rouen and also develops a curatorial activity. Isabelle Le Minh does not apprehend photography as a means to represent the world: it is the technique itself, its objects, its uses, its history as well as its theoretical foundations that interest her. Most often working through associations of ideas, the artist questions the nature and materiality of images, the status of the artist and the notion of originality in a standardized world where the image proliferates. Her works have been presented in major occasions in France and abroad: Paris Photo; Month of Photography (Montreal); Rencontres d'Arles; Kehrer Gallery (Berlin); Museum of Contemporary Art (Krakow); Frac Normandie Rouen; Photographic Center of Île-de-France; the red house (Paris); Dorfman Projects (New York); SMAK (Ghent) ... She has been represented since 2011 by Christophe Gaillard gallery (Paris). After Photography & Beyond is thought of as a reflection of the artist's approach, which often resorts to appropriation or misappropriation to explore, not without humor, through a protean and polysemic work, the various fields of photography: objects, uses, techniques, history and theoretical foundations. Le Minh then chose as starting point the legendary Time-Life Encyclopedia for Photography - a collection of seventeen books published in the 1970s, illustrated by the great photographers of history, covering all the technical, historical or artistic and widely circulated throughout the world. The series of images are punctuated by texts by Julie Jones (historian of photography) which highlights different strategies of appropriation in a historical perspective, while Joan Fontcuberta (artist and author of many theoretical writings on photography) is interested in the question of th
Editeur DILECTA
Auteur LE MINH ISABELLE/
Disponibilité Disponible
Parution 21/08/2019
ISBN 9782373720730
EAN 9782373720730
Dimensions Epaisseur : 16, Largeur : 260, Hauteur : 260
Prix TTC 35,00 €
Montant HT 33,18 €

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