This publication accompanies the exhibition La saga des inventions,
du masque à gaz à la machine à laver at Croisière Arles as part of Les Rencontres Internationales de la photographie d’Arles 2019 (1 July – 22 September).
All articles filed in documentary photography
Rikki Ercoli: Legends of Punk – Photos from the Vault (Manic D Press, 2003)
During the heyday of the punk era, young photographer Rikki Ercoli took his Nikon everywhere, documenting the wildly energetic scene.
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Chan Chao: Burma: Something Went Wrong (Nazraeli Press, 2000)
Chan Chao was born in Kalemyo, Burma in 1966. He and his family left Burma for the United States in 1978. Nazraeli Press has published three books by Chao: Burma: Something Went Wrong, Letter from PLF and Echo.
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Bruce Davidson: England / Scotland 1960 (Steidl, 2005)
Born in Chicago in 1933, Bruce Davidson began photographing at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. After leaving military service in 1957, he freelanced for Life and in 1958 became a member of Magnum Photos.
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Leafhopper: It´s a wonderful Life (Phree, 2019)
David Simon Martret and Blanca Galindo (1984) are a documentary photography duo working together as Leafhopper and currently living between Barcelona and Kuala Lumpur. Their last work It’s a wonderful Life is a visual essay about general addictions.
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Short Cuts 03
Short Cuts 03 presents 4 new photobooks. It starts with April Dawn Alison and concludes with an Atlas of Forms.
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Duane Michals: Empty New York (Enitharmon Editions, 2018)
Duane Michals (b. 1932, McKeesport, PA) is one of the great photographic innovators of the last century, widely known for his work with series, multiple exposures, and text. In 1964, he began to document New York City in an unfamiliar guise, virtually empty of inhabitants at dawn or dusk.
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Ralph Gibson: The Spirit of Burgundy (Aperture, 1994)
Ralph Gibson has carried on a lifelong love affair with France, passionately observing and recording the country through its most intimate details.. In The Spirit of Burgundy local cuisine, architecture, customs, wine cultivation, landscape, and the Burgundians themselves are the ongoing visual themes.
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Shintaro Sato: Night Lights, The Origin of Tokyo and Geography
Shintaro Sato was born in Tokyo in 1969. He graduated from the Tokyo College of Photography in 1992 and has worked as a freelance photographer since 2002.
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Christopher Makos: White Trash (Stonehill Publishing, 1977)
Christopher Makos was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, grew up in California, and moved to New York after high school. His seminal 1977 book, White Trash, chronicled the punk scene as it came of age on the street of New York.
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Abigail Heyman: Growing up female: A personal photojournal (Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1974)
Abigail Heyman (August 1, 1942 – August 28, 2013) was an American photographer and feminist. Her 1974 book Growing Up Female became an important text for the feminist movement.
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Sonia Voss: Les libertés intérieures, Photographie est-allemande (1980-1989) (Éditions Xavier Barral, 2019)
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, what do we know about East-German photography? Resulting from several years of research led by Sonia Voss in Berlin and several other cities of former G.D.R., this publication presents the work of 16 photographers.
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