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The tremendous wealth and power of Babylon, along with its monumental size and appearance, were certainly considered a Biblical myth, that is, until its foundations were unearthed and its riches substantiated during the 19th century. Archaeologists stood in awe as their discoveries revealed that certain stories in the Bible were an actual situation that had [...]

To traverse the city, its districts. To choose a street. To photograph one after the other its bricks, its stones, its windows.
Conceived in the uniformity, they acquired with time their individuality. They keep the traces of the men whom they sheltered a time.
To catalogue, index the innumerable objects forgotten on their edges.
To gather these dumb [...]

CITÉS IDÉALES
Vous venez d’obtenir le prix Arcimboldo, le prix a récompensé en particulier « Cité Idéale» . Dans cette photographie on sent à la fois les représentations idéales des peintres de la Renaissance pour la perspective, le goût du polar et l’intérêt contemporain (et noir) pour la banlieue. Quelles sont vos sources ?
Bien sûr, Piero [...]

. In the 19th century, one hid the intimate, but in today’s society one must exhibit it in order to exist, become visible, the non-visible being inexistent or insignificant.
This visibility satisfies and need for recognition: the individual is considered, appreciated, and judged according to the quantity of signs and images he produces, inciting him to [...]

Bibliothèque Idéale
Bibliothèque 2
Dédale
Citadelle2
Voyages Extraordinaires

Cranach’s Dream
Réminiscences
La Rose des Vents
Bicyclettes Abandonnées
Conférence de Burano

Sleeping Beauties
In his « Sleeping Beauties » series, Jean-François Rauzier treats the topic of sleep as a doorway to mystery, dreams, and lyricism. The male character contemplates, on the threshold of his own night, the young sleeping beauty being the symbol of what is lost.
Inspired by Kawabata and Balthus, the symbolic universe proposed by [...]