Love Songs Photographie de L'intime

This catalogue of the exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, interrogates the role of photography in the comprehension and representation of love, physical proximity, sexuality and thus of intimacy. 

The book offers a new look at the history of photography through the prism of love relationships. Built like the two sides of a record, Love Songs - Photographies de l'intime (Photography and intimacy) brings together the work of 16 artists who have placed their own intimacy at the center of their photographic creation. 

Among the major photographic series are Nobuyoshi Araki's Sentimental Journey (1969) and Winter Journey (1989-1990), which present the beginning and end of the relationship with his wife Yoko, from their honeymoon to her death; and Nan Goldin's masterpiece The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (since 1983), an intimate exploratory stroll through the New York underground of the times. Covering a period from 1950 to 2021, the book presents a combination iconic series and images never before shown in France. 

Love Songs reveals the special relationship that photography has with reality and this indescribable thing called love.

Text in French.

Title: Love Songs Photographie de L'intime
Publisher,Year: Atelier EXB
Author: Simon Baker
Photographer:
Side A : 1950-2000; René Groebli, Emmet Gowin,  Nobuyoshi Araki, Hervé Guibert, Alix Cléo Roubaud, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin
Side B : 2000-2021; Sally Mann, JH Engström & Margot Wallard, RongRong & Inri, Hideka Tonomura, Leigh Ledare, Lin Zhipeng, Collier Schorr, Karla Hiraldo Voleau
Graphic Design: Lina Célo
Format: Hardback
Size: 19 x 27.5 cm, 228 pages
ISBN: 9782365112895