Audrey Tautou‘s photo book Superfacial has been released by Fisheye Éditions. It is presented as follows.
In 2017, during the Rencontres d’Arles, Audrey Tautou revealed her photographic practice with an exhibition of work she began two decades ago. With the book Superfacial, she takes up some of these images, but goes even further by revealing her questioning and mischievous view of the world and herself. She questions her status as a star by playfully exploring her image by putting herself in the picture. Mixing very personal texts, self-portraits, fan letters and many surprises, she draws a very intimate portrait that allows us to enter the depths of her soul. Humor and second degree are never far away and come to mix with deep and disconcerting reflections. Through a series of self-portraits, by controlling every aspect of her photos, she creates elaborate and humorous compositions that intentionally expose their artificial character. These photographic stories construct an image aligned with her critical gaze, offering an alternative vision of the actress and the star that the public thinks they know. She also presents two other series: one composed of more than 500 portraits of journalists taken during the promotion of her films over the years. She thus questions the process of mediatization. She also uses her camera on anonymous people photographed from behind, thereby escaping their gaze.
Audrey Tautou: Superfacial
Fisheye Éditions
220 × 280 mm
280 pages
Hardcover
Bodonian binding
French
ISBN: 979-10-97326-26-5
Price: €38
www.fisheyeeditions.com
