Après la pluie…
Author: Jean Rouaud
Editor : Actes Sud
Date : 1997
ISBN : 2-7427-1418-9
Size : 28 x 22,1 cm
Language : French
107 pages
“The possibilities are often endless. To cut into, to slice up reality, to organize. To act like a journalist, to write poetry. To be serious, to take yourself seriously, to be witty, to be mocking. Telling the news is definitely a hazardous exercise. I’ve had to do it for seven years, from 1990 to 1997, for the newspaper Libération, and It didn’t take me long to realize that I was somehow, a “pretty bad journalist”. At work, my mind was often on other things. Like in my daily life. I was sitting right in the middle of a river, all around me the news was flowing past. I’ve always loathed photographic demonstrations, or statements: I make too many of them without a camera to keep making them with one – a personality trait, like taking myself seriously. In the middle of this river, I built up my secret garden. A private space, gradually exposed as my contact sheets drift by. Funny images – that I don’t find so funny – doubts, people, obsessions.”
Post face by Jean-François Campos
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