“Inspired by an intense love of photography, these pages do not in any way seek to draw up a theory. Maybe they even assume, in their nomadic life, such a project would be impossible. They attempt identify one of the strangest powers, often described as “reality effect”.
Single source of pleasure at the beauty of the world, an endless questioning of the nature of reality, on the status of historical events and social violence, the changing definition of art, memory or the self, marker effects of technology on our perceptions, and above all of the plasticity of time, this effect is also the reason for a constant questioning of photography itself.
Images are objects which we like to believe, but not believing.
It is not surprising to find here the developments, sometimes controversial, the porous borders between practices institution-ally considered art and others that seem to escape this qualification. […] From Arnaud Claass
Single source of pleasure at the beauty of the world, an endless questioning of the nature of reality, on the status of historical events and social violence, the changing definition of art, memory or the self, marker effects of technology on our perceptions, and above all of the plasticity of time, this effect is also the reason for a constant questioning of photography itself.
Images are objects which we like to believe, but not believing.
It is not surprising to find here the developments, sometimes controversial, the porous borders between practices institution-ally considered art and others that seem to escape this qualification. […] From Arnaud Claass
Arnaud Claass
Auteur, Photographe
Born in Paris in 1949.
His work is in numerous public and private collections including the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Pompidou Center), the European House of Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Tokyo, Camerawork / Howard Stein Collection in New York.
In addition to his teaching at the ENSP of Arles, he was invited several years at the International Center of Photography (New York) and the Ecole des Arts Appliqués de Vevey.
It is currently at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin.
His work is in numerous public and private collections including the Musée National d’Art Moderne (Pompidou Center), the European House of Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Tokyo, Camerawork / Howard Stein Collection in New York.
In addition to his teaching at the ENSP of Arles, he was invited several years at the International Center of Photography (New York) and the Ecole des Arts Appliqués de Vevey.
It is currently at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin.
La plénitude photographique
Arnaud Claass
Orientations photographiques
Arnaud Claass
L’intuition photographique
Arnaud Claass
Essai sur Robert Frank
Arnaud Claass
La considération photographique
Arnaud Claass
Du temps dans la photographie
Arnaud Claass
Le réel de la photographie
Arnaud Claass
Heure locale
Arnaud Claass
Lude
Joséphine Michel
Arnaud Claass
Nuit optimale
Arnaud Claass
Mémoire vive
Arnaud Claass
La magie, sinon rien
Alain Coulange
Arnaud Claass
