De l’air, the magazine that has showcased contemporary photography for almost sixteen years, is launching itself into publishing. With this series “collector”, dedicated to the great names of photography, it offers, as its founder Stéphane Brasca loves to specify, in the form of a “portfolio-book”, an object that is both rare and elegant.
To lead the dancing, the photographer Bernard Plossu and his Fresson colour prints. De L’air has maintained a faithful relationship with this renowned photographer for many years, he has often entrusted previously unpublished images to it. Here is proof of what motivated this first volume; drawn from the archives and favouring those that have been least exposed to public view. Fresson colour prints, less well-known than his black and white work, but also and above all negatives never shown until now. Images made in the United States, France and Mexico between 1960 and 2000 are seen here.
Through a limited edition of 170 copies, each numbered and signed by the author, De L’air is creating a new format: a book as exhibition. In fact, in a large black box that is used as a case, the work, notebook-like, brings together the loose pages without binding or brochure. In addition, the box is subtly accompanied by a pair of white gloves.
But even more exceptional. The first fifteen copies, numbered from 01 to 015, each contain an original Fresson print signed and numbered by the photographer himself.
The preface (Colour Souvenir), signed by Sylvie Hugues, allows entry to the hazy universe of this photographer who hasn’t stopped marking the medium’s evolution for the last thirty years, and the object, delicately, creates the transition between the world of publishing and that of the gallery.
The latest copy of the magazine was published last July and is available at newsstands, on the website delair.fr and specialist bookshops.
Points de vente :
http://www.delair.fr/produit/bernard-plossu
170 exemplaires (sans tirage)
Stand Paris Photo et Salon de la Photo
Galerie Camera Obscura
Librairie Artazart
Jeu de paume
Artcurial
Librairie 7 L à Paris, rue de Lille
La librairie Ombres Blanches – Toulouse
La Librairie Masséna et la Librairie La Briquetterie – Nice
La Librairie L’ascenseur Végétal – Bordeaux
Exemplaires (001-015) avec tirage (Epuisé en stock)
Librairie de la Mep
Librairie Plac’art
Librairie Mazarine
Sur le site et la Galerie Les Yeux Ouverts
