Edges of the World

An Identikit Picture

Alain Willaume

 

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ISBN : 9788170462026

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‘Is this, then what extremities are; not the end of journeys but . . . the forfeiture of the satisfaction of an ending for the tremulousness and slight madness of another beginning?’ – Amit Chaudhuri. The furthermost reaches of the European and Indian subcontinents are Alain Willaume’s subject matter in this series of photographys, the ‘clues’ with which he constructs his ‘identikit-picture’ of a conceptual space. He describes this ‘dark photographic meditation’as a ‘portrait of landscapes’ made up of land’s ends and frontiers, which takes us to tension-points haunted by politics and history, ‘sacred and profane symbolism’, and powerful enigmas. ‘Where serenity and fear meet.’ This volume consists of his striking visual images , with an introductory essay by novelist Amit Choudhuri, and the texts of two probing discussions: with art historian Tapati Guha-Thakurta and fellow photographer Naveen Kishore. The discussions engage with a range of questions and issues thrown up by the photographs: the political and spiritual connotations of land’s ends and frontiers, music and silence in photography, photography’s relationship with documentation, and the ‘problem’of being in the right place. ALAIN WILLAUME received the Critics’Kodak Prize in 1979, and several other awards including a large public commission by CEAAC (European Centre for Contemporary Artistic Action). Since1993 some of his work has been distributed by the photo agency VU.He has been widely published and exhibited.

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