“It was who knows what time of day. The sun was silent, the slope steep and vague, misty; there was uncertainty on earth. The whole gray earth. The sounds isolated in the long silence. The paths, the streams traced with gregarious light, with little luminous dust, just moved with equal breathing; immeasurable distances; and put there, this rectangle.” Isle of Mull, Jacques Roubaud
This new opus from the “Format passeport” collection is a second edition of one of the very first books by Créaphis. The great writer, mathematician, translator, champion of poetic equivalences and the master of landscape photography have come together for a tour of Scotland in black and white.
The text “Les airs, les eaux, les pierres” by Jacques Roubaud develops, with a very mathematical concision, in an insularity which invites the pleasure of reading aloud. The writing exercise combines meticulous reading of photographs and memories of sojourns in Scotland, combining reading and visual memory. The poetic form, very constructed, plays on recurrence, the recording of time in space and works to translate a landscape in movement.
Jean-Pierre Gilson’s photographs paradoxically find a new dimension in a miniaturized space where so many details abound: an attentive reading will find such a lonely sheep, such crazy grass.
SCOTLAND : Jean-Pierre Gilson (photographs), Jacques Roubaud (text)
Pages 104
Format 10.5 x 15 cm
ISBN 9782354281564
Price 12 €
ISBN 9782354281564
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