Gérard Rondeau
Sur les lieux du regard
Publisher : Artha
Release Date : 2004-05
ISBN : 2-84845-016-9
Book Size : 24 x 17 cm
Language : French
105 pages
Gérard Rondeau has published many photography books, including several directly related to the art world. This book brings together a selection of photographs he took between 1991 and 2001, in French national museums and during the installation of temporary exhibitions at the National Galleries of the Grand Palais, in Paris.
The book is an original and poetic gathering of 69 full-page black and white photographs: a covered Amenophis, a wrapped Virgin and Child, a teacher mimicking in front of her astonished class, a sculpture from South Africa in bubble wrap, the Venus de Milo and her disciples, a Buddhist divinity supported by a handler, an Asian figure in a pot …