Filigranes Éditions – For 27 years, Filigranes has been following an original and audacious path in artists’ editions. The editorial approach combines image and writing in unique photobooks. Founded by Patrick Le Bescont, the catalogue offers 580 titles.
The editorial approach of Filigranes is to combine pictures and writing, thus allowing the eye of photographers, and the sensibilities of authors, artists and contemporary writers to blend, without exclusion of styles or genres.
.PLEASE NOTE: the texts in this book are in French only. Presentation by Filigranes : [translation by L'Ascenseur Végétal] " « In a sense, I like to be where I am not expected. It is not beacause I like poetic photography à la Boubat or à la Frank that I do not like, or am not able to appreciate other things. In fact, since the early seventies, I had...
Presentation by Filigranes: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Filigranes release the first publication by Marilia Destot, La promesse [The promise], a set of 3 photographic booklets, grouped together in a slipcase. For each booklet, the photographer invites an author to a dialogue with her images, leaving them a carte blanche. Dominique A,...
Presentation by Filigranes : [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "« In the early seventies, going through Rome, during a cold and rainy winter; no good photographs, I had a wide-angle! except two or three in empty and quiet Pompeii under the magnificent rain... Later, in 1979, having finally understood the quiet strength of the 50 mm, coming from the high...
Entre fleuve et rivière (*signed*)
Presentation by Filigranes: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] "This book is born out of encounters, out of an interest for landscapes, and out of reciprocal curiosity. Beyond the dialogue between two photographers' approaches, Entre fleuve et rivière * is an inspiration, a will to explore a shared history. They are exchanged perspectives on the Pays...
Presentation by Filigranes: [translation L'Ascenseur Végétal] " Mathieu Pernot selected over 350 postcards from the LAPIE company, aerial views, to recreate through a visual assembly process an imaginary map of France in the 1950-1960 years.Connected by their patterns and motifs, like the pieces of a large jigsaw puzzle map, they form continuities of...
HS - images d'une histoire souterraine
Publisher's presentation: "HS est un journal de 18 photographies qui font écho au récit d’Amaury da Cunha, Histoire souterraine, publié simultanément aux éditions du Rouergue. Cette publication, constitue une chambre d’écho, comme une annexe photographique, en marge du texte. Dans ce récit autobiographique, il est question de la mort d’un frère à...
Quel temps il fait, Stéphane Duroy ?
. PLEASE NOTE : This book is IN FRENCH ONLY. Presentation by Filigranes: "« Le texte qui suit, rédigé en 2010, est consacré à L'Europe du silence, un livre majeur de Stéphane Duroy. Il traite des rapports de l'image photographique et de l'histoire, de l'exil, du temps photographique imaginé par Stéphane Duroy. Il explore une question trop souvent ignorée...
Je n'ai plus peur du noir (*signed*)
Presentation by Filigranes: "Le 25 décembre 2014, je fais des photographies ce matin-là, en Corrèze.Le lendemain, nous apprenons, suite à une analyse de sang de routine, que Suzanne, notre fille de 7 ans, est atteinte d’une leucémie.Elle est rapatriée le 29 décembre à Paris, à l’hôpital Trousseau.À partir de ce moment-là, je photographie Suzanne à...
Publisher's presentation: "Coffret constitué de trois ouvrages.La première résidence des 3 photographes choisis Diana Lui, Alice Lévêque, Lea Patrix a eu lieu en janvier/février 2016 à Toulouse. La résidence 1+2 est un programme photographique ancré à Toulouse et à vocation européenne. Il associe chaque année : – 3 photographes : un photographe de renom...
Au Roi du bois (chapitre II) (*signed*)
Publisher's presentation: "In the rustling of leaves and the touching of barks, searching for the « Roi du bois » (« King of the woods »), an antique and litterary figure, these « minuscule landscapes » or « meticulous landscapes », as if dried out, try to make an inventory, like in an herbarium, of these small places, these places already seen, already...
.Currently out of stock.Publisher's presentation: "Yusuf Sevincli renews the erratic figure of the walking photographer, wandering the cities and the sidewalks in search of singular faces and fates. Familiar with the urban areas, he multiplied encounters during his stay in the French city of Vichy in March 2015, pushing the doors of bars, restaurants,...
.Currently out of stock; please feel free to contact us.Publisher's presentation: "The British photographer Rip Hopkins, through chance meetings in the country of nobility, offers us an incredible « tableau de chasse » (French expression meaning « hunter's tally ») of 96 portraits. The Belgian historian Olivier de Trazegnies, wanders through the paradoxes...
Publisher's presentation: "Anne-Lise Broyer, Nicolas Comment, Amaury da Cunha and Marie Maurel de Maillé decided to come together as a group, to think their images together, arrange them as an organic whole. They lived parallel or similar stories, despite the singularities they necessarily carry and despite the diversity of roads they took. With Being...
Publisher's presentation : "This book is the first publication of the Lithuanian filmmaker of international renown Sharunas Bartas' photographs, on the occasion of the retrospective of his films at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (05.02> 06.03.2016), of the release of his new film Peace to Us in Our Dreams (10.02.2016) and of the exhibition at Passage de...
Publisher's presentation: "Melos is a book between darkness and hope. The image above these lines should alert the attentive viewer. On this old postcard, annotated by the sender marked “Far and sad hello from the East.”, while geographical annotations attest to the complexity of the region. This incipit seems to sum up the point of view reached by...
Publisher's presentation: "Two men retrace their footsteps along the Gironde estuary. From the Atlantic Ocean, they go upstream all the way to Bordeaux by roads and paths, on bike, each one on a shore. The first one, Christophe Goussard, a photographer, made this trip in black and white, on the right bank in the Blaye region, his place of birth and youth....
.Back in stock.Publisher's presentation: " Like the travel notebooks of Bruce Chatwin, whose writings offered an incredibly sensitive and humanistic vision of an Australia forever lost, the photographic wanderings of Matt Wilson – another Anglo-Saxon globetrotter – provide ineffable images of the different countries he has traversed. Few in number and...
.Sold out. Publisher's presentation: "Yusuf Sevincli is not seeking unilateral consent or the approval of an audience. He is merely photographing his environment, his daily fears and questions, and sees in Photography the means to stay connected to the things and beings, a response - his response - to the environment that surrounds him and the movements...
Ils pensent déjà que je suis folle
Publisher's presentation: "Kourtney Roy (...) is the example of the uninhibited and sincere artist who does not take herself seriously." A rising star in fashion and commercial photography, she was awarded the Carte Blanche PMU in 2013. Model and photographer at the same time: to play, to experiment, to have fun, these words seem to guide the personal...
Presentation by Ediciones Anómalas: "The series Le nom qui efface la couleur revolves around what is possible, around the possibility of being one thing or another, of falling or flying, of remaining or vanishing, and in general, around man’s intrinsic freedom, which places him in a world full of options, forcing him to choose between one or another. The...
How much can you carry ? (*signed*)
.Signed copies. (adapted from) Publisher's presentation: " The series How much can you carry ? was born out of the fascination of Floriane de Lassée for the lines of people carrying loads as large as they were diverse along the African roads. This series gradually extended to four continents, with about ten countries represented today (Rwanda , Ethiopia,...
Portraits énigmatiques d'adolescents, dans la pénombre ou des lumières blafardes, accompagnés de quelques paysages tout aussi mystérieux... sans narration apparente. Peut-être une vision de l'adolescence et de ses incertitudes; toutefois, la nature omniprésente et la chaleur qui se dégage des portraits créent une atmosphère très particulière, intriguante,...