the book of images EDITED BY STEFANO STOLL FOREWORD BY ERIK KESSELS
AN ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF VISUAL EXPERIENCES 299 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS 310 STORIES AND LEGENDS 957 COLOR AND BLACK AND WHITE PICTURES 1215 IDEAS AND CONCEPTS
IMAGES VEVEY KOENIG BOOKS LONDON
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For Comfort Zone, Tadao Cern (Lituania, 1983) used a camera propped on a pole to capture sunbathers dozing on a Baltic Sea beach. He then placed large formats of his snapshots on Vevey’s rooftops and flew a drone equipped with an HD camera over them. Thanks to immersion goggles, visitors could follow live what the pilot was looking at and peek at those unsuspecting vacationers. This was a first for Festival Images, experimenting the artistic and scenographic potential of a new technology that is breaking ground in terms of the way we look at things and how we photograph, at a time when the legal issues related to drones are gradually being lifted.
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Laureates of the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2011/2012 (p. 352), Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh (Lebanon/Germany, 1981) and Rozenn Quéré (France, 1981) created Vies possibles et imaginaires, their interpretation of the family photography archive from the perspective of its narrative and poetic potential. Combined with a book co-published by Images Vevey (p. 357), their account delved into the life of four Palestinian-Lebanese sisters living in exile in different parts of the world. Part documentary, part fiction, photography and text, the work does not tell the actual story of these women: It rewrites their biographies in the present, in a lively and theatrical manner, loosely transcribing audio interviews that relate both true and fantasized events.
Toying with the evocative power of images, Feu (au lac) rekindles humans’ ancestral fascination with fire. Philippe Durand (France, 1963) photographed the infinite fleetness of fire, thereby capturing the primitive shapes of light, going back to the roots of photography. By means of lenticular imagery, a form of pre-digital GIF, he superimposed three different views to restitute the movement of fluctuating flames according to the viewer’s position. Customized for Vevey, the installation rose out of Lake Geneva, echoing Deep Purple’s hit Smoke on the Water, written in the neighboring town of Montreux in 1971. It also hinted at a popular local expression, “the lake ain’t on fire”, meaning that there is no burning rush.
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Daido Moriyama (Japan, 1938) lived in Paris between 1988 and 1989. During his stay, described in his memoirs, the photographer made a series directly inspired by Eugène Atget’s “Old Paris”. As he was strolling through Les Halles, he noticed a gigantic inflatable whale floating in the air, hanging between two cranes. Struck by the surreal scene, with his camera at the ready, he created an instant record of the giant from the seas barging into the Parisian sky. Presented in monumental format on the facade of a hydro-turbine company, the almost 220-m2 image welcomed visitors arriving at Festival Images by train and introduced the theme of the 2018 edition: Extravaganza. Out of Ordinary.
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Ursula Mumenthaler (Switzerland, 1955) has a habit of submitting architecture to plastic intervention and then photographing the result. For Festival Images, she conceived an on-site installation in the shape of a trompe l’œil on the upper floor of the disused commercial space that serves as a central venue for the Festival. Presented outdoors separated from its matrix, the image toys with visitors’ perception, shaking up their visual habits. Using anamorphosis, the artist diverts and questions the common notion that photography is a faithful transcription of reality.
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For 40 years, the unmissable Martin Parr (United Kingdom, 1952) has been delivering a biting vision of modern society and its shortcomings, pointing to the excesses of the leisure industry and mass tourism. Drawn from a series on Switzerland and its many clichÊs, the photograph of a vacationer admiring the mountains in Zermatt, as if he were encrusted in the panorama, was displayed in monumental format on one of the town’s largest facades. This over 500-m2 installation Think of Switzerland was conceived in such a way that, from a given viewpoint, it created the illusion of continuity with the actual alpine landscape behind the building.
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For his Looking Into the Past project, Jason E. Powell (United States, 1979) superimposed past and present in the same image by placing photographs of important historical happenings back in their original location. His work includes, for example, a military gathering during the 1862 Civil War, the 1900 Paris International exhibition or the 2001 Twin Towers attack. Presented as part of the collective exhibition PassĂŠ RecomposĂŠ (p. 360), his series confronts photographic memory with current reality.
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Alex Prager (United States, 1979) uses photography and cinema to explore the emotions associated with crowd dynamics. Applying a visual grammar requiring numerous extras, her Face in the Crowd reveals the paradoxes of the individual, lonely and lost in the crowd. The framing and lighting focus on details of the composition that provide clues to explore the intimacy of the characters. For her first exhibition in Switzerland, she created an installation for Espace Images (p. 348) mixing photographs, film stills and her short film Sunday.
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Conceived specifically for Festival Images, the Castle encouraged visitors to reflect on the art of concealment by covering the glass walls of the Vevey theater with one hundred or so images of facades of French Renaissance castles. By this act of photographic teleportation, Jeanne Susplugas (France, 1974) and Alain Declercq (France, 1969) reinterpreted the outer architecture of the building and its medieval-like tower to reveal it to Vevey residents under a different light, like a set removed from the stage.
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Martin Parr always brings back a souvenir portrait from each of his trips. Made by either a professional or an amateur photographer, or in a photo booth, these outrageously digitally manipulated images toy with the popular holiday imagery that is the focus of the British photographer’s work. As a tribute to these self-portraits, Images Vevey conceived the You and Martin are a Pa(i)rr photo booth (No 218): Visitors could select a setting among around 20 of the famous photographer’s cult images, insert themselves in it thanks to a green screen, and then collect their personalized photograph. Entering the scene themselves encouraged visitors to take a different look at Martin Parr’s iconic work.
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Festival Images Vevey 2016 Teaser
Festival Images Vevey and its impacts Talk by Stefano Stoll
Festival Images Vevey 2016 Martin Parr No 219
Festival Images Vevey 2016 Set up Pierre et Gilles No 222
Festival Images Vevey 2016 Set up Hans-Peter Feldmann No 089 Michael Schirner No 255
Festival Images Vevey 2016 Set up Martin Parr No 219
Festival Images Vevey 2016 Set up Renate Buser No 042
Espace Images Publication 5Ă—5
Festival Images Vevey 2014 Aftermovie
Espace Images Lucas Blalock No 026 3 questions to Bruno Ceschel
Festival Images Vevey 2016 Aftermovie
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