Clays.
Trans Photographic Press| N° d'inventaire | 31296 |
| Format | 20 x 25 |
| Détails | 96 p., numerous photographs, publisher's cloth binding. |
| Publication | Pomponne, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9791090371668 |
Aisne, between the Marne, Seine, and Oise, is a little-known department, a land of passage, invasion, and culture. It lies at the crossroads of Champagne, Picardy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Île-de-France, and Belgium.
A land of passage, invasion and culture, it has many battle sites from the Great War.
Antoine Dambrine traveled through it, focusing on the landscapes, and especially the mostly clayey soil. His way of treating the black and white images, which he took himself, evokes the yellow-brown hues of the clayey, ochre, or marly clay.
After Granits, dedicated to the Breton and Scottish coasts, here is Argiles.
[...] The book's subtle photographs often play on slight variations in gray, imperceptible differences between trees, hay, and the road, between road and vegetation. Shades of gray reveal the beauty of small things: abandoned barns or castles, silos that highlight magnificent concrete that is nevertheless so maligned, isolated trees in a plain that stand like a monument to nature alongside a Calvary on a promontory, a Chirico-style castle—an American monument in Château-Thierry, nonetheless—repeated military crosses in an endless cemetery, forests, the rigorous geography of hay bales on an agricultural plain, ... [Excerpt from the preface]
Aisne, between the Marne, Seine, and Oise, is a little-known department, a land of passage, invasion, and culture. It lies at the crossroads of Champagne, Picardy, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Île-de-France, and Belgium.
A land of passage, invasion and culture, it has many battle sites from the Great War.
Antoine Dambrine traveled through it, focusing on the landscapes, and especially the mostly clayey soil. His way of treating the black and white images, which he took himself, evokes the yellow-brown hues of the clayey, ochre, or marly clay.
After Granits, dedicated to the Breton and Scottish coasts, here is Argiles.
[...] The book's subtle photographs often play on slight variations in gray, imperceptible differences between trees, hay, and the road, between road and vegetation. Shades of gray reveal the beauty of small things: abandoned barns or castles, silos that highlight magnificent concrete that is nevertheless so maligned, isolated trees in a plain that stand like a monument to nature alongside a Calvary on a promontory, a Chirico-style castle—an American monument in Château-Thierry, nonetheless—repeated military crosses in an endless cemetery, forests, the rigorous geography of hay bales on an agricultural plain, ... [Excerpt from the preface]