À fendre le cœur le plus dur (to break the hardest heart) is a four hands text, of Jérôme Ferrari and Oliver Rohe, written from an ensemble of photographs, press articles and letters dating from 1911 in Tripoli, on the Italo-Turkish colonial war-front of Libya. With this work recently published by Inculte-dernière marge editions, the two writers sign their participation in a multidisciplinary arts project also titled À fendre le cœur le plus dur (to break the hardest heart), inspired by the discovery of documents produced by the writer Gaston Cherau, commissioned by the Le Matin in Tripoli between November 1911 and January 1912. The scientific research work conducted by the historian Peter Schill allowed the identification of around thirty articles, just as many letters by Cherau to his wife, and above all 215 unpublished photographs, which now constitute an important archive for the history of war photojournalism. It attests to the life of an army in campaign, of the daily gestures in the field, as well as scenes of violence, within the limits of what was possible to approach for an early twentieth century photographer.
The full article is available in the french version of L’Oeil de la Photographie.
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À fendre le cœur le plus dur
From December 23rd 2015 to February 21st, 2016
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