Echoes of Silence. Quebec landscape in March.
Creaphis| N° d'inventaire | 22230 |
| Format | 10.5 x 15 |
| Détails | 76 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Grane, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782354281434 |
In 1988, Patrick Le Bescont, photographer and editor of the fledgling Filigranes publishing house, published his first book, Echos du silence. Paysage du Québec, in March. He invited the great Franco-Chinese writer and poet François Cheng to be his accomplice and his first point of view. In 2018, Créaphis published a revival of this book in the Format Passeport collection. This new edition translates an immensity into miniature. François Cheng's poems, in a brief form of a few free verses, are a kind of precipitate. The authors echo one another, harmonize from a distance, endeavoring to capture the different nuances of the late-winter landscape, translated into ranges of gray and white dotted with black dots of deep ink. Between sky and river, barely visible, a very present life made of trees, grass, animals and humans, traces. Small milestones placed like dotted lines on a page, the photographs are also poetry written through small calligraphic signs. We should also be able to hear this book. François Cheng's murmuring voice also echoes the breaks, ruptures, and cracks of the ice of this Saint Lawrence in March, at the beginning of its luminous breakup. The poems have retained their strength and precision. A contemplative attitude imbued with a lesson in the philosophy of the body and the landscape. A beautiful reflection echoing the photographs. A draftsman and cabinetmaker by training, Patrick Le Bescont built his own large-format wooden camera. In this journey, he accomplishes, as an artist and craftsman, a task and an initiatory masterpiece.
In 1988, Patrick Le Bescont, photographer and editor of the fledgling Filigranes publishing house, published his first book, Echos du silence. Paysage du Québec, in March. He invited the great Franco-Chinese writer and poet François Cheng to be his accomplice and his first point of view. In 2018, Créaphis published a revival of this book in the Format Passeport collection. This new edition translates an immensity into miniature. François Cheng's poems, in a brief form of a few free verses, are a kind of precipitate. The authors echo one another, harmonize from a distance, endeavoring to capture the different nuances of the late-winter landscape, translated into ranges of gray and white dotted with black dots of deep ink. Between sky and river, barely visible, a very present life made of trees, grass, animals and humans, traces. Small milestones placed like dotted lines on a page, the photographs are also poetry written through small calligraphic signs. We should also be able to hear this book. François Cheng's murmuring voice also echoes the breaks, ruptures, and cracks of the ice of this Saint Lawrence in March, at the beginning of its luminous breakup. The poems have retained their strength and precision. A contemplative attitude imbued with a lesson in the philosophy of the body and the landscape. A beautiful reflection echoing the photographs. A draftsman and cabinetmaker by training, Patrick Le Bescont built his own large-format wooden camera. In this journey, he accomplishes, as an artist and craftsman, a task and an initiatory masterpiece.