In the footsteps of three book religions, Tristessa Jack Kerouac, Au dessous du Volcan by Malcolm Lowry and Les Tarahumaras of Antonin Artaud, Nicolas Comment has lived two months in residence in Mexico. Mexico City Waltz is above all a poem composed of photographic double–page images that rhyme with one another and constitute a kind of visual equivalent of “spontaneous literature” dear to Jack Kerouac (and which the title of this book is reference). In contrast to a catastrophic vision and expected Mexican, Mexico City Waltz celebrates the beauty and sensuality of Mexico today. We meet three young women, “as brown as a ripe” (Malcolm Lowry) who are the real heroines of this book. Through them, it’s Mexico City as a whole appears to us in its intimacy, as if the metropolis itself had been exposed …
Edition limited to 24 numbered copies drawn accompanied by a photographic print (format 22 x 30 cm) signed by Nicolas Comment.
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* Possible choice between four photographs, each taken at 6 copies.
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Nicolas Comment
Auteur, Musicien, Photographe
Photographer and author-composer, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Lyon (1997) and the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris (1999), Nicolas Comment publishes his first book of photographs in 2001, editions Filigranes: “The service” (text by André S. Labarthe), which will be followed by “Le point” in 2003 and “A ***” in 2004 (texts by Bernard Noël). In 2005, his meeting with Rodolphe Burger , then with Jacques Higelin and Yves Simon for whom he works on two albums (“Amor doloroso” and “Rumors”, 2006), brings him closer to the world of music, until the producer Jean-Louis Pierot (Les Valentins / Daho) offers to accompany him in the realization of a personal musical project including the CD-book “Is this the East? (Berliner romanze), published in 2008, is the first part. In collaboration with Patrick Le Bescont, Nicolas Comment has also created the magazine “Saison” at Editions Filigranes and publishes with Anne-Lise Broyer a book on the city of Prague: “Fading” (2006). In 2010, it records a first album produced by Marc Collin (Nouvelle Vague), which will be hailed by the press: “We were God” (Kwaidan / Discograph). In 2012, following the publication of the book “The visit”, he adapted to music, with Xavier Waechter , the latest collection of poems by the writer Bernard Lamarche-Vadel: “Retrouvailles”, which is released on the jazz label Bonsaï Music. The same year, he exhibited at the VU ‘gallery (Paris) a new series of images, the result of a photographic residence made in Mexico and published the book “Mexico City Waltz”, at Filigranes. In 2014, parallel to the publication of the book “T (angel) r” (accompanied by an afterword by Gérard Manset and a single containing two unreleased songs), he exhibited from December 2014 to January 2015 at the gallery 127 (Marrakech) a new series of photographs carried out in Morocco. Her second solo album, “Rose Planet”, (Kwaidan / Because) was released in CD version in 2015 and version 33 T in 2016 (Mediapop) while the collective exhibition “Being beauteous” (with A.-L. A. Da Cunha, Mr. Maurel de Maillé) continues his career in various French museums throughout 2015. In 2016, Nicolas Comment presents in Paris a large exhibition in duet with photographer Bernard Plossu, “Identification of a city “. Then he exhibited in Vichy, as part of the festival “Portrait (s)”, a new series of images devoted to his companion, Milo, which is the subject of the publication of the book “Milo (Songbook)” published by Chic Medias.In 2017, he won the “Residence for photography” prize from the Fondation des Treilles, which allows him to create a new photographic and musical work in the footsteps of the rimbaudian poet Germain Nouveau during the year 2018. His “Journal” Countdown (1991-1999) “, consisting of his first black and white photographs and archival texts, will be published in April 2019.
One more Dance
Christophe Acker
Nicolas Comment
Cavale
Nicolas Comment
Journal à rebours
Nicolas Comment
Reverb
Nicolas Comment
Being Beauteous
Amaury da Cunha, Marie Maurel de Maillé, Nicolas Comment, Anne-Lise Broyer
Léa Bismuth, Yannick Haenel, Etienne Hatt, Jean Deilhes, Hélène Giannecchini
T(ange)r
Nicolas Comment
Gérard Manset
Mexico City Waltz
Nicolas Comment
La visite
Nicolas Comment
Danielle Robert-Guedon
Est-ce l’Est ?
Nicolas Comment
Fading
Anne-Lise Broyer, Nicolas Comment
fotograf
Anne-Lise Broyer, Nicolas Comment
Saison # 21
Vince Taylor
Nicolas Comment
A*** Aurélia
Nicolas Comment
Bernard Noël
Le triboulet
André S. Labarthe
Anne-Lise Broyer, Nicolas Comment, Gérald Colas
Le point
Nicolas Comment
Bernard Noël
La desserte
Nicolas Comment
André S. Labarthe
C’est Maquis
Anne-Lise Broyer
Nicolas Comment
À propos de Jeanne
Nicolas Comment
La petite vacance
Anne-Lise Broyer, Nicolas Comment