192 pp.
thread-swened hardcover
blind debossing on front and back cover with foilblocked typography on spin
4 colors offset
Format: 215 x 270 mm
Print run: 1000 copies
Language: French / English
Rennes, December 2019
ISBN: 978-2-36582-019-6
Credits
Photographs: Estelle Hanania
Texts: Pierre Dourthe, Estelle Hanania, Gisèle Vienne
Translation: John Doherty
Design: Bartolomé Sanson and Estelle Hanania
Publié avec le soutien à l’édition du Centre national des arts plastiques
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IT’S ALIVE! à travers l’œuvre de Gisèle Vienne, the new book from French photographer Estelle Hanania, gathers over ten years of collaboration and archives revolving around the artistic universe of Gisèle Vienne.
A subjective monograph on the choreographer’s work, the present book makes for one of Estelle Hanania’s densest cluster of images to date, arraying a collection of photographs that spans from 2008 to 2019.
For Estelle Hanania, whose work has previously been featured twice by Shelter Press, the human body has proven to be a limitless source of inspiration. Her ability at capturing the essence of Gisèle Vienne’s vision, through her acute visual understanding of bodies and objects, as well as her knack for building natural bridges between Gisèle’s performances and the whole of her photographic endeavour, make this new publication a much essential milestone in Estelle’s career.
Shaking up the foundations of the classic live-performance book as we know it, It’s Alive! offers a singular take on the work of Gisèle Vienne, inviting the reader to look from beyond the stage’s borders, taking a step back and shifting perspectives, allowing to envision the whole of Vienne’s body of work under a fresh new light; the heart of the book deploying in a truly free and sensible fashion while eschewing the chronological, and/or thematic approach usually associated with such efforts.