HERVÉ GUIBERT: PHOTOGRAPHE, with a text by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo

Gallimard, 2011, First edition, 224 pp., 7 1/2" X 8 3/4", Hardcover

Fine

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, Hervé Guibert, photographer, Paris, February 9 to April 10, 2011.

"I will always deny being a photographer: this attraction frightens me; it seems to me that it can quickly turn into madness, because everything is photographable, everything is interesting to photograph, and from a single day of one's life, one could extract thousands of moments, thousands of tiny fragments, and if one starts, why stop?" "The photograph that someone other than myself could take, that doesn't stem from the particular relationship I have with this or that person, I don't want to take." "What I love about work is the moment when it imperceptibly takes off towards fiction after having gained momentum on the path of truth."   -Hervé Guibert. (from the back cover)

Text in French