"COUNTERPARTS. FORM AND EMOTION IN PHOTOGRAPHS" par Weston J. NAEF. Editions The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1982. Petit in-4, couverture toilée anthracite sous jaquette photo (état d'usage). 174 pages. Texte en anglais, avant-propos par Philippe de Montebello, illustré de 64 reproductions photographiques hors texte; noir & blanc et couleurs, de 53 photographes tels : James Wallace Black, Edouard Boubat, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Clift, Ralph Gibson, André Kertész, Paul Outerbridge, Irving Penn, August Sander, George Seeley, Jerry Uelsmann, Weegee... Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition itinérante à travers les Etats-Unis : "Counterpart" qui débuta au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York du 26 Février au 09 Mai 1982.

 

"The format of this book, placing side by side two or three photographs that have some special visual relationship – evolved from Alfred Stieglitz's fondness for making comparisons among the work of the artists and photographers who were his friends. The purpose here is to expand Stieglitz's principle of equivalency to encompass compared photographs that become formal and emotional equivalents. Among the ideas guiding these essays is that picture language is not identical to world language and, moreover, that art stated perfectly in visual language resists restatement in words. More than half od the sixty-four images presented in this book are published for the first time together with Weston J. Naef's thoughtful essays. Two and occasionally three images are placed facing pages followed by an essay that examines the underlying ideas and interprets the language of the photographs and possible responses triggered in the imagination of the viewer…"

 

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