Aujourd'hui presents the Franco-Swiss photographer Thaddé Comar's latest series, which explores the question of information and the various ways it is staged through the “media machine”. To bear witness to this highly topical subject, Thaddé Comar went to the Assemblée Nationale and the Palais de Justice in Paris, to be at the reactor core. These images of politicians immersed in a forest of microphones, cameras and poles, highlight the media hubbub and our desensitization towards the flood of information.
This series, produced specifically for the book, is put into perspective with an essay by Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of the Photo Élysée Museum in Lausanne, which contextualizes Thaddé Comar's work within the history of photography. This text is accompanied by an interview with curator Song Tae Chong, presenting the creation of the 7L Photography Grand Jury Prize. Finally, writer Fabienne Radi has imagined a short story echoing the photographer's theme of public discourse.
Aujourd'hui inaugurates the new collection of the Grand Prix du jury de la Photographie 7L, revealing a new generation of photographers.
Aujourd'hui presents the Franco-Swiss photographer Thaddé Comar's latest series, which explores the question of information and the various ways it is staged through the “media machine”. To bear witness to this highly topical subject, Thaddé Comar went to the Assemblée Nationale and the Palais de Justice in Paris, to be at the reactor core. These images of politicians immersed in a forest of microphones, cameras and poles, highlight the media hubbub and our desensitization towards the flood of information.
This series, produced specifically for the book, is put into perspective with an essay by Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of the Photo Élysée Museum in Lausanne, which contextualizes Thaddé Comar's work within the history of photography. This text is accompanied by an interview with curator Song Tae Chong, presenting the creation of the 7L Photography Grand Jury Prize. Finally, writer Fabienne Radi has imagined a short story echoing the photographer's theme of public discourse.
Aujourd'hui inaugurates the new collection of the Grand Prix du jury de la Photographie 7L, revealing a new generation of photographers.
Signed copies will be shipped from October 18.
Limited edition
of 700 copies
with a photographic print
signed by the artist
Bilingual: English, French
Softcover with a dust jacket
17 × 22 cm
76 pages
22 color photographs
Texts
Essay by Nathalie Herschdorfer
Short story by Fabienne Radi
Interview by Song Tae Chong
with Thaddé Comar
and Luis Alberto Rodriguez
Copublished with Éditions 7L
and villa Noailles
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