The book has a nice title: Écosse fantastique : L’appel de Merlin (The call of Merlin).
The photographer: Dimitri de Larocque Latour.
The book is presented as follows:
“Men still hear his call, says the legend, but they can neither understand nor interpret it”, states one of the great dreamers of humanity, Carl Gustav Jung, about Merlin – who symbolized for him the unconscious. Photographer Dimitri de Larocque Latour set out in search of this unconscious (his own perhaps, because his middle name is Merlin?), in the land of tortured trees and black waters: Scotland. In the 6th century, upset by the massacre of his comrades in arms, the bard Myrddin Wyllt (the original Merlin), took refuge in an immense forest south of the city of Edinburgh today. Throughout the pages, the author presents to us the places, fortresses, abbeys or hills, haunted by the madness of the solitary hero. A landscape bathed in emerald vapor, a dark sky riddled with tawny lights, and a copper ray falling on an ivory tower: such is Merlin’s dream and empire. Through his images in black and white, or twilight colors, the author wanted to give the vision of the lost bard, inconsolable and euphoric at the sight of the ruins with the dimensions of alcoves, where to cry the graces of another world. Thus numerous ghosts escort the reading, so much so that Professor Philippe Walter, an eminent Arthurian specialist, has captured in the photographer’s palette the “tints of wounded memory and languorous expectation”. Fantastic Scotland: Merlin’s call is the lament and voluptuousness of the hermit who haunts the edge of life and death.
Dimitri de Larocque Latour – Écosse fantastique : L’appel de Merlin
éd. Magellan & Cie.
Hardcover, 104 pages, 21,8 x 30 cm
ISBN : 9782350747187
25 €.
https://editions-magellan.com/livres/ecosse-fantastique-lappel-de-merlin/
