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"Photo Trouvee" brings together 285 anonymous 'amateur' photographs, which were discovered and collected over a period of over twenty years in flea markets and antique shops. They are taken from the private collections of Michel Frizot, one of the most highly respected photohistorians in France and internationally, and his colleague Cedric de Veigy, professor of photography and film. These images once belonged to hundreds of now anonymous men and women, both young and old, city- and country-dwellers. They show family reunions and individual portraits, holiday scenes and urban landscapes, still lives and everyday objects. Seen together, they form what the authors call "an anthropology of the ordinary". But however ordinary their subjects might be, the photographs themselves are certainly never mundane. Collections of 'amateur' photographs often display the images as being kitsch or funny; here the approach is very different. The images have been selected as much for the atmosphere and universal feelings of humanity that they engender as for their intrinsic quality as photographs; in fact, they often provoke more questions in the viewer than they answer. As photographs portraying scenes of everyday life, originating both from the past and nearer to the present, they conjure up familiar images and emotions in the reader, be it of a place, a person, a gesture, or simply an atmosphere. The images are presented in 18 carefully edited sections of 13, 15 or 17 images, with each picture displayed on a single page. Neither chronological nor thematic in arrangement, the images have been placed according to their composition, their tone, and the rhythm and narrative dimension of the photographs. Frizot and de Veigy introduce this collection of photographs in their own words, providing a concise explanation of their aims when collecting and curating this intimate and intensely atmospheric body of work.
About the Author
Michel Frizot is one of the most important photographic historians working today. Research Director at CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris) and at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), he currently teaches courses in the History of Photography at L'Ecole du Louvre. He is the author of numerous books on photography and the history of photography, including J.H. Lartigue, le passe compose (CNP, 1984); Histoire de Voir (Photo Poche, 1989); and the reknown Nouvelle Histoire de la Photographie (Bordas, 1994, new ed. Larousse, 1998), which has been translated into English and German, The New History of Photography, and Neue Geschichte der Photographie (Konemann, 1998). Cedric de Veigy is a colleague of Michel Frizot at L'Ecole du Louvree. He is a photographic researcher and a film teacher. He is also the co-author of Documentation photographique, La Documentation francaise, June 2001. Author's residence Michel Frizot: Paris Cedric de Veigy: Issarles (South of France)
"Photo Trouvee" brings together 285 anonymous 'amateur' photographs, which were discovered and collected over a period of over twenty years in flea markets and antique shops. They are taken from the private collections of Michel Frizot, one of the most highly respected photohistorians in France and internationally, and his colleague Cedric de Veigy, professor of photography and film. These images once belonged to hundreds of now anonymous men and women, both young and old, city- and country-dwellers. They show family reunions and individual portraits, holiday scenes and urban landscapes, still lives and everyday objects. Seen together, they form what the authors call "an anthropology of the ordinary". But however ordinary their subjects might be, the photographs themselves are certainly never mundane. Collections of 'amateur' photographs often display the images as being kitsch or funny; here the approach is very different. The images have been selected as much for the atmosphere and universal feelings of humanity that they engender as for their intrinsic quality as photographs; in fact, they often provoke more questions in the viewer than they answer. As photographs portraying scenes of everyday life, originating both from the past and nearer to the present, they conjure up familiar images and emotions in the reader, be it of a place, a person, a gesture, or simply an atmosphere. The images are presented in 18 carefully edited sections of 13, 15 or 17 images, with each picture displayed on a single page. Neither chronological nor thematic in arrangement, the images have been placed according to their composition, their tone, and the rhythm and narrative dimension of the photographs. Frizot and de Veigy introduce this collection of photographs in their own words, providing a concise explanation of their aims when collecting and curating this intimate and intensely atmospheric body of work.
About the Author
Michel Frizot is one of the most important photographic historians working today. Research Director at CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris) and at EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), he currently teaches courses in the History of Photography at L'Ecole du Louvre. He is the author of numerous books on photography and the history of photography, including J.H. Lartigue, le passe compose (CNP, 1984); Histoire de Voir (Photo Poche, 1989); and the reknown Nouvelle Histoire de la Photographie (Bordas, 1994, new ed. Larousse, 1998), which has been translated into English and German, The New History of Photography, and Neue Geschichte der Photographie (Konemann, 1998). Cedric de Veigy is a colleague of Michel Frizot at L'Ecole du Louvree. He is a photographic researcher and a film teacher. He is also the co-author of Documentation photographique, La Documentation francaise, June 2001. Author's residence Michel Frizot: Paris Cedric de Veigy: Issarles (South of France)
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