The rest of us.
EXB Workshop| N° d'inventaire | 31764 |
| Format | 19.5 x 24.5 |
| Détails | 256 p., 150 color and B/W photos, publisher's hardcover |
| Publication | Paris, 2025 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782365114363 |
LE BAL Exhibition, Paris - June 20 - November 16, 2025
In January 2023, Donna Gottschalk met Hélène Giannecchini for the first time. Although some forty years separated them, an immediate connection was established between them. While searching for images for her upcoming book on friendship, Hélène explored Donna's archives and collected her words, her story. Deeply moved by Donna's life and photographs, Hélène set out to echo them.
Donna Gottschalk's work paints a social, political, and intimate portrait of an invisible America from the late 1960s to the 1980s. A member of the queer community and involved in the early lesbian rights movements, Donna focuses on photographing people on the margins of society, with whom she lived, campaigned, and worked: her loved ones, friends, lovers, and comrades in struggle.
Her preferred mode of expression becomes the portrait, which she seeks to be without artifice. The people she photographs pose for her in an intimate setting, most often in her apartment, fully embracing their freedom. It is with a sensitive, committed, and non-judgmental gaze that Donna gradually builds a family album, a collective memory.
Throughout the book, a text by Hélène Giannecchini activates, reveals, and extends Donna Gottschalk's images. An essay by Julie Héraut, co-curator of the exhibition, entitled "Archive Against Forgetting," looks back at the journeys of the two women and the genesis of this four-handed project.
In "Being Seen. Donna and Me: Reflecting on How We Managed to Exist in Others' Eyes," African-American photographer and art historian Carla Williams draws parallels between her photographic practice and Donna's, decades apart. The collection is complemented by a selection of archival material.
LE BAL Exhibition, Paris - June 20 - November 16, 2025
In January 2023, Donna Gottschalk met Hélène Giannecchini for the first time. Although some forty years separated them, an immediate connection was established between them. While searching for images for her upcoming book on friendship, Hélène explored Donna's archives and collected her words, her story. Deeply moved by Donna's life and photographs, Hélène set out to echo them.
Donna Gottschalk's work paints a social, political, and intimate portrait of an invisible America from the late 1960s to the 1980s. A member of the queer community and involved in the early lesbian rights movements, Donna focuses on photographing people on the margins of society, with whom she lived, campaigned, and worked: her loved ones, friends, lovers, and comrades in struggle.
Her preferred mode of expression becomes the portrait, which she seeks to be without artifice. The people she photographs pose for her in an intimate setting, most often in her apartment, fully embracing their freedom. It is with a sensitive, committed, and non-judgmental gaze that Donna gradually builds a family album, a collective memory.
Throughout the book, a text by Hélène Giannecchini activates, reveals, and extends Donna Gottschalk's images. An essay by Julie Héraut, co-curator of the exhibition, entitled "Archive Against Forgetting," looks back at the journeys of the two women and the genesis of this four-handed project.
In "Being Seen. Donna and Me: Reflecting on How We Managed to Exist in Others' Eyes," African-American photographer and art historian Carla Williams draws parallels between her photographic practice and Donna's, decades apart. The collection is complemented by a selection of archival material.