Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography
Committing to paper the movements, postures, and words of the people I meet gives me the illusion that I am close to them. I donât speak to them, I only watch them and listen to them. Yet the emotions they arouse in me are real. I may also be trying to discover something about myself through them, their attitudes or their conversations. (Sitting opposite someone in the MĂ©tro, I often ask myself, âWhy am I not that woman?â)â Annie Ernaux
Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography brings together the celebrated writing of Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with photographs from Maison EuropĂ©enne de la Photographieâs collection by photographers including Harry Callahan, Claude Dityvon, DolorĂšs Marat, DaidĆ Moriyama, Janine NiĂ©pce, Issei Suda, Henry Wessel, and Bernard Pierre Wolff.
Taking Ernauxâs unique artistic endeavour to âdescribe reality as through the eyes of a photographer and to preserve the mystery and opacity of the lives I encounteredâ, this project by writer and curator Lou Stoppard uncovers the profound ways the written and visual image can inform and inflect on one another. In doing so, it proposes a new way of thinking about literature and photography, and the ways in which shared themes â such as class, travel, social stereotypes, and individual identity within the modern urban environment â might be explored between these two forms.
Accompanies an exhibition at MEP, Paris, opening on 28 February 2024
Hardcover | 6.15" x 8.50" | MACK
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Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography
Committing to paper the movements, postures, and words of the people I meet gives me the illusion that I am close to them. I donât speak to them, I only watch them and listen to them. Yet the emotions they arouse in me are real. I may also be trying to discover something about myself through them, their attitudes or their conversations. (Sitting opposite someone in the MĂ©tro, I often ask myself, âWhy am I not that woman?â)â Annie Ernaux
Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography brings together the celebrated writing of Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with photographs from Maison EuropĂ©enne de la Photographieâs collection by photographers including Harry Callahan, Claude Dityvon, DolorĂšs Marat, DaidĆ Moriyama, Janine NiĂ©pce, Issei Suda, Henry Wessel, and Bernard Pierre Wolff.
Taking Ernauxâs unique artistic endeavour to âdescribe reality as through the eyes of a photographer and to preserve the mystery and opacity of the lives I encounteredâ, this project by writer and curator Lou Stoppard uncovers the profound ways the written and visual image can inform and inflect on one another. In doing so, it proposes a new way of thinking about literature and photography, and the ways in which shared themes â such as class, travel, social stereotypes, and individual identity within the modern urban environment â might be explored between these two forms.
Accompanies an exhibition at MEP, Paris, opening on 28 February 2024
Hardcover | 6.15" x 8.50" | MACK
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Committing to paper the movements, postures, and words of the people I meet gives me the illusion that I am close to them. I donât speak to them, I only watch them and listen to them. Yet the emotions they arouse in me are real. I may also be trying to discover something about myself through them, their attitudes or their conversations. (Sitting opposite someone in the MĂ©tro, I often ask myself, âWhy am I not that woman?â)â Annie Ernaux
Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography brings together the celebrated writing of Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, with photographs from Maison EuropĂ©enne de la Photographieâs collection by photographers including Harry Callahan, Claude Dityvon, DolorĂšs Marat, DaidĆ Moriyama, Janine NiĂ©pce, Issei Suda, Henry Wessel, and Bernard Pierre Wolff.
Taking Ernauxâs unique artistic endeavour to âdescribe reality as through the eyes of a photographer and to preserve the mystery and opacity of the lives I encounteredâ, this project by writer and curator Lou Stoppard uncovers the profound ways the written and visual image can inform and inflect on one another. In doing so, it proposes a new way of thinking about literature and photography, and the ways in which shared themes â such as class, travel, social stereotypes, and individual identity within the modern urban environment â might be explored between these two forms.
Accompanies an exhibition at MEP, Paris, opening on 28 February 2024
Hardcover | 6.15" x 8.50" | MACK
