"O FUTURO CERTO" par Guy TILLIM. Editions Steidl, Göttingen en collaboration avec The Walther Collection, New York-Neu Ulm. 2015. Edition originale. Imprimé en Allemagne. Fort petit in-4 format oblong, couverture toilée imprimée photo. 304 pages. Texte en anglais, illustré de 150 reproductions photographiques, noir & blanc et couleurs, pleine page pour la plupart, par Guy Tillim.

 

"Why this book? The truth is, I don't really know. I could go ahead and explain myself, describe the context of the images, but it would be like building a wall to describe a field of meaning. What I find interesting in images defies a literary code; its vocabulary lies elsewhere. Perhaps it is musical. You have to look at it, listen to it, and therein lies the paradox. What is exchanged in photography is often stereotype; each successful image is in part a resistance to that impulse alone. Easy to make, but if it does not speak directly of a deep experience of the world, it is nothing much. Experience of the world that is rich, nuanced, detailed, ambiguous, is reduced to signifiers that confirm how I'd like it be. I look at the photographs I have made and they are such pale echoes of an experience. Let them be ambiguous, un-emphatic; that is enough for now. I don't mean photographs do not have all these possibilities to confound my prejudice: they do… So in making photographs I try to frame a window onto a world that in its way looks back through me or my camera and prompts the simple question always worth asking: who am I? I humour myself and think that these photographs are steps towards that window." Guy Tillim.

 

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