Release of the book Figures Fleurs Forêts by Jean Luc Tartarin by Éditions LOCO.
Jean Luc Tartarin borrows images from the history of photography that he will reproduce in a file that he calls “first” and from which he can experiment with different interventions until he obtains the works that he considers successful. When he takes an old analog photograph, once scanned, it becomes like a negative. The raw file, of a particular nature, allows Jean Luc Tartarin to undertake the work of construction of a new image in a kind of digital alchemy. After this long work of invention, mixing pleasure and struggle with virtual matter, the final file will be embodied in the materiality of a print on chromogenic paper. In the work process, the elaborated image must not allow the vision of the pixels of which the image is composed. Only the materials, like a painted painting, must be visible.
The book is organized around three large iconographic groups: figures, flowers, and forests. This last subject has always been important in the photographic research that the artist has been conducting for more than fifty years.
Jean Luc Tartarin was born in Metz in 1951. He lives and works in the nearby Metz region. Self-taught, he won the Prix Niepce in 1971. In 1972, at the Metz School of Fine Arts, he became the first photography professor in an art school in France, a position he held until 2013. Committed since the early 1970s to an artistic practice, where the photographic medium is explored in its multiple facets, the forest, the trees, became the favorite subject that is built in the proximity of the territory of childhood
Héloïse Conésa is a heritage curator, in charge of the contemporary photography collection in the Prints and Photography department of the BnF.
Jean Luc Tartarin: Figures Fleurs Forêts
Éditions LOCO
24 x 28 cm, bound full paper with marking, dust jacket
224 pages, 160 four-color reproductions, French / English text
ISBN: 978-2-84314-111-9
45 euros
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