With contributions from:
Jean-Luc Bayard, Anne-Céline Callens, Michel Depeyre, Pierre-Régis Dupuy, Georges Gay, Georges-Henry Laffont, Pierre-Olivier Mazagol, Éric Perrin, Jonathan Tichit.
The Furan river remains almost invisible within the city of Saint-Étienne.
Photographer Pierre Suchet has explored its banks, from its source (at Bessat) to its confluence with the Loire (at Andrézieux-Bouthéon).
The meticulous work of capturing images is combined with reflections from geographers, historians, and image specialists, to examine the relationships that have developed over time between people and the river. In this book, contemporary photographs are also juxtaposed with a variety of older representations.
This dialogical approach was consciously chosen to attempt to convey the complexity of the inhabitants’ use of the watershed and their feelings towards the river. It is also driven by the desire to encourage the reader to engage in a form of investigation themselves.
Danièle Méaux
Auteur
Danièle Méaux is a specialist in contemporary photography and professor in aesthetics and art sciences at the University of Saint-Etienne. She is the author of photography and time (PUP, 1997), Voyages de photographers (Puse, 2009), Geo-Photographies. A renewed approach to the territory (Filigranes, 2015), surveys. New forms of documentary photography (Filigranes, 2019) and contemporary & anthropocene photography (Filigranes, 2022). She is also editor -in -chief of the journal Focales: https://journals.openedition.org/focales/
Sur les traces du Furan
Danièle Méaux, Pierre Suchet
Quand la photographie pense la forêt
Danièle Méaux
Photographie contemporaine & anthropocène
Danièle Méaux
Grammaire de formes
Éric Tabuchi, Jordi Ballesta, Guillaume Bonnel
Danièle Méaux
Anatomie d’une ville
Guillaume Bonnel
Danièle Méaux
Enquêtes
Danièle Méaux
Géo-Photographies
Danièle Méaux
Pierre Suchet
Photographe
Pierre Suchet he leads photographic projects in collaboration with researchers in the humanities. Following this multidisciplinary approach, he has been conducting geo-photographic surveys of urban rivers in France and abroad for a decade.
He is currently working on a multidisciplinary project concerning the Furan River in Saint-Étienne, in connection with Jean Monnet University and various museum and territorial institutions. This project will result in a book published in 2024 by Filigranes Editions and an exhibition at the municipal archives of Saint-Étienne in 2027.
In October 2022, he published work on the Yzeron River in the first issue of the Chabe magazine, a collaboration with Marilyse Cottet, a CNRS researcher in social geography.
In 2022, his 10-year survey of the Nièvre River was the subject of a large outdoor exhibition, presented in the main cities of the watershed. This event, supported by the Nièvres Watershed and the C.A.U.E. of Nièvre, was accompanied by a lecture at the Théâtre des Forges Royales de Guérigny.