This choice of some images throughout the extent of Bernard Descamps’ work can simply be seen as a compilation of my preferences.
A choice for fun.
Bernard was generous to let me constitute this set and proposed to name it essential, according to the title of one of his favorite records: The Essential Bob Dylan.
But I hope it can also come out a more abstract idea of the essential.
An illustration of this mysterious relationship between photography and reality, between the fixed image and what has been seen, framed, chosen, extracted from the flow of consciousness that crosses us every second.
A kind of essence of the gaze, slowly distilled with talent and passion.
Didier Brousse
Book drawn in 300 copies
Bernard Descamps
Photographe
Born in Paris in 1947.
PhD in Biology, he became a photographer in the early 1970s.
He is now represented by the Camera Obscura Gallery and was one of the founding photographers of Agence VU in 1985. He works mainly on the choice of framing in the shot, in square format, going against Of the “academic” rules of composition. His main works are in black and white, notably on Africa. He captures those moments when reality is mingled with his imagination. He exhibited with André Kertesz (his “master”), at the Leverkusen Museum in 1976 … Publications at Filigranes editions: Autoportrait, Où sont passés nos rêves ?. Ici même, Quelques Afriques, Lady Land, Silences, Evening Land, Japon, Berbère, Le don du fleuve.
Essentiel
Bernard Descamps
Au-delà des apparences
Bernard Descamps
Héloïse Conésa
Natura
Bernard Descamps
Maria Spiegel
Autoportrait
Bernard Descamps
Où sont passés nos rêves ?
Bernard Descamps
Dominique A
ici même
Bernard Descamps
Hervé Le Goff
Quelques Afriques
Bernard Descamps
Brigitte Ollier
Lady Land
Bernard Descamps
Silences
Bernard Descamps
Evening Land
Bernard Descamps
Dominique Sampiero
Japon
Bernard Descamps
Berbère
Bernard Descamps
Catherine Simon
Le don du fleuve
Bernard Descamps