About Photographers. Photography Criticism by Vilém Flusser: Theory and Praxis
I published this essay in Proceedings of the VII International Congress on Communication and Culture (VII coMcult), December 2021 (communication on September 16, 2021)
My presentation at the EXP21, the second Experimental Photography Festival in Barcelona
On July 22, 2021, I was invited to give a presentation on the History and Theory of Experimental Photography at the second edition of the remarkable Festival of Experimental Photography in Barcelona. It is an update and a revision of my...
Video of my presentation (in English) in Barcelona in January 2020
Vous trouverez ici une vidéo de plus d’une heure de ma présentation en anglais au Festival de Photographie Expérimentale à Barcelone le 18 janvier 2020. You will find here a video of my 1-hour long presentation in English at the...
Introduction of the book, in English
Introduction to « Jouer contre les Appareils » Originally, almost all the historians and critics of this medium, and the philosophers who have written about it, have contented themselves with a very limited definition of photography, implying...
Extrait de « Dronifying Birds, Birdifying Drones, an Essay by Joan Fontcuberta »
Cet essai de Joan Fontcuberta accompagne le livre « The Pigeon Photographer » (Bolzano, Rorhof, 2017). L’extrait recopié ici provient des pages xxv et xxvi de l’essai. « And that, surely, is the danger: that as the camera becomes...
« Flusser and Photographers, Photographers and Flusser », my essay (in English) in Flusser Studies n°24
Flusser and Photographers, Photographers and Flusser http://www.flusserstudies.net/sites/www.flusserstudies.net/files/media/attachments/marc-lenot-flusser-photographers-photographers-flusser.pdf A summary : The second part “On photography”...
Exhibition around experimental photography, in Paris, November 6 – December 2
PS: I will be present on November 9 (opening) and on November 11 & 16 (visits) To visit the exhibition, you must register in advance by mail (rsvp@gesteparis.com) or by phone ((07 8128 4903) To know more : website of GesteParis
Mention of my book in the magazine L’Oeil de la Photographie in English
Marc Lenot, Working against the Camera (On Experimental Photography) MARC LENOT SEPTEMBER 14, 2017 What is experimental photography? It’s a little-studied field and a poorly defined concept in the history of contemporary photography. The author...
Shadow Catchers (compte-rendu de colloque)
Shadow Catchers Mes notes lors d’un colloque le 4 février 2011, au Victoria & Albert Museum, Londres, à l’occasion de l’exposition Shadow Catchers. Les photographes présents étaient Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian...
Wolf (mon entretien)
Silvio Wolf Notes de mon entretien avec Silvio Wolf le 1er mai 2011, chez lui à Milan (enregistrement de 1h, 28m). Your beginnings? I took a photo of a mannequin with a Polaroid SX70, removed the object and rephotographed the photograph...
Seers (mon entretien)
Lindsay Seers Notes de mon entretien avec Lindsay Seers le 2 février 2011 à Londres. ML: Not separate fact and fiction; not wanting to know what’s real and what’s fiction. Am I interviewing the subject or the object? LS...
Pippin (mon entretien)
Steven (Mr.) Pippin Notes de mon entretien avec Steven Pippin le 18 juin 2011, à Strasbourg. His start: his father (engineer, doing photos, developing in bathtub); it was more exciting than the images. Nothing was interesting...