synopsis
Wild Rose is a tender book, both as object and in content, underlying the approach Gabrielle has always worked by: “taking pictures is like loving what you see.” Wild Rose is set in southwestern France, and at the center of the book is the house Gabrielle Duplantier grew up in. Her mother had always dreamed of having such a house; spacious, full of character, the complete artistic retreat. The day Gabrielle was born there was a fire at the house, forcing the eviction of the other renters in the house. In 2019, having traveled Europe, Morocco, and India, she returned to Bayonne and this time moved back into the house. Her aging father and the old home were in steady need of attention, and Gabrielle happily gave herself to their care. She spent hours outside in the woods, encountering for the first time a silence she describes as ecstatic. Like her landscape and still life photographs, her portraits are an allegorical expression of the pureness and intensity with which she was experiencing the present.
technical information
Publisher : Editions Lamaindonne
2024 (1st edition)
Dimensions : 19.5 x 26 cm
148 pages, 76 b&w photographs
2024 (1st edition)
Dimensions : 19.5 x 26 cm
148 pages, 76 b&w photographs
about Gabrielle Duplantier
Gabrielle Duplantier is a French photographer born in 1978.
After studying Fine Arts and Art History, she started working on her own as a photographer. Her work is inspired by close territories, nature and portraits. From often uneven shots to experiments in the darkroom, she brings back images where the power of forms, a memory of a painter’s apprenticeship, is combined with the fragility of figures.
After studying Fine Arts and Art History, she started working on her own as a photographer. Her work is inspired by close territories, nature and portraits. From often uneven shots to experiments in the darkroom, she brings back images where the power of forms, a memory of a painter’s apprenticeship, is combined with the fragility of figures.
Suspended movements, organic landscapes, twilight moments, inhabited portraits of women or children, Gabrielle continues to assert, anxiously and obstinately, her point of view as a subject, less attached to freezing reality than to claiming a right to see it.
She has published two books with Lamaindonne, Volta (2014) and Terres Basses (2018).
She has published two books with Lamaindonne, Volta (2014) and Terres Basses (2018).
Gabrielle and her photographs. All of them are inspired by a delicacy and by a brutal force, a fieriness and a grace, something that the night competes with both the demonic and the candour. Gabrielle owes something to the mist and the glow, to the oak and the reed, to the landscape and the phantasmagoria. To the granite of desires and the sand of life. In her book Volta, with a preface by Maylis de Kerangal, her great art is assembled like a path of rain, of ferns, of women from another time, of countries and more countries, of things seen unless they are the sole fruit of the powder of a moment.
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Publisher : Editions Lamaindonne
2024
Dimensions : 19.5 x 26 cm
148 pages, 76 b&w photographs
1st edition
2024
Dimensions : 19.5 x 26 cm
148 pages, 76 b&w photographs
1st edition