Fils de Roi, Portraits d'Egypte

Fils de Roi, Portraits d’Egypte

Author : Alain Blottière
Publisher : Gallimard
Release Date : 2008
ISBN : 2070123146
Book Size : 25 x 25 cm
Language : French
80 pages

The combined observations of a photographer and writer offer a passionate and contemporary alternative to the otherwise recurrent cultural and tourist clichés encumbering the uniqueness of a country. A series of low-key pictures, in which nothing is haphazard, accompanied by a preface written in a poetic and engaged register reveal the stance of an exemplary dignity. That of Egypt. Practicing an apparently calm and incredibly demanding photography permeated by perpetual doubt, Denis Dailleux fashions, over a period of fifteen years, an exclusive portrait of Egypt with which he has an impassioned relationship with. His passion for people has naturally prompted him to choose portraiture as a means of choice to represent those he had a desire to approach and embody as more than they reveal.”