[Photographie] Extraordinaire réunion de photographies de Maurice Blanchot prises dans la sphère familiale

by (Maurice BLANCHOT)

$47,012 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

1907. Fine. ca.1907-2003 | 30 x 32 cm | (Maurice BLANCHOT) Extraordinary collection of Maurice Blanchot s original photographs taken in the family setting, the only printings C. 1907-2003 | 272 photographs | various format “Blanchot challenged photographers and caricaturists of the literary press for a long-time. His portraits , over so many years, are minimalist and rare: in 1962 in L Express, a hand holds up a book, at the bottom of the page; in 1979, in Libération, a blank square is in the middle of the page, with only Maurice Blanchot s name and a quote from the Entretien infini as a caption: ‘an empty universe: nothing that was visible, nothing that was invisible ” (C. Bident, Maurice Blanchot). In 1986, at the time of an exhibition of writers portraits, he requested that his photo be replaced by a text showing his desire to “appear as little as possible, not to glorify [his] books, but to avoid the presence of an author who was entitled to an independent existence.” A photo taken without him knowing by a paparazzi in a supermarket carpark was used as the writer s portrait for a long time before his friend Emmanuel Levinas revealed a few rare photographs of their youth. The fact that Maurice Blanchot did not oppose this release and the fact that this was his closest friend s deed, could be explained by what Bident calls “the spacing of worry,” as the revealed portraits were not up-to-date, similar to the postponed publications of his books L Idylle, Le Dernier Mot, L Arr

• Year: 1907
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: unknown

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