Study Day
The Photography Book as a Space for Research
Organised by LLA CREATIS (Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University), isdaT-Beaux Arts (Toulouse) and Les Abattoirs, Museum – Frac Occitanie Toulouse.
In the midst of the digital age, the photography book is experiencing a remarkable resurgence and establishing itself as a unique space for experience, where materiality, sequence and the interplay between text and image open up a singular moment for analysis. Since the 2000s, artists have turned it into a veritable field of inquiry: collecting archives, documentary reconstruction, exploring hidden narratives or challenging the boundaries between truth and fiction. The book thus becomes a critical tool for research and the construction of visual knowledge.
This study day aims to examine these contemporary uses, bringing together researchers, artists, students and professionals. It forms part of the dynamic scene in Toulouse centred on the photographic book and will be accompanied by an exhibition at the Bibliothèque des Abattoirs, conceived in collaboration with students from the Department of Visual Arts at UT2J and isdaT.
Schedule
9.30am: Welcome and introduction to the institutions.
10.00 am: 1st presentation: David de Beyter, a photographer straddling documentary and conceptual approaches. On the UFO counterculture through the lens of contemporary photography and visual archives.
10.50 am: 2nd presentation: Hélène Virion: Seeing the invisible. The blindness of images in the work of Trévor Paglen.
11.35 am: After a coffee break, a tour of the exhibition library designed by students from Jean Jaurès University
12.30 pm: Lunch break.
2.00 pm: 3rd talk: Julie Martin, Researching with images: the photography book versus the logic of the web in the work of Taryn Simon.
2.50 pm: 4th talk: Sébastien Girard, photographer, collector and editor of Photobook’s.
3.45 pm: Round table discussion with all the speakers and Estelle Lacanal, librarian at the Château d’eau gallery in Toulouse; Fabrice Raymond, responsible for promoting collections and artists’ books at the Bibliothèque des Abattoirs, Toulouse; and Didier Delrieu from the Abattoirs bookshop
Conferences in French
