Synopsis
What you will find in this film
His beginnings as a press photographer • An unusual take; an assumed point of view • Stories behind the snaps • His conception of politicians' portraits • His professional and personal commitment • Thirty-five years of political life in photography • Why use a wide-angle • Difficulties reconciling professional and personal work • To show differently • Resist the formatting of minds and clichés • Crossing techniques and eras • From analogue to digital, from black & white to colour • A photographer with varied interests • The job of a photography publisher • The constraints of the commission • The constraints of the market • Stepping back • Life after the press
Film chapters
00:28 Act one (the book)
09:09 Act two (the commission, the work, the point of view)
18:44 Act three (life after the press)
Further exploration
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• ET PUIS S'EN VONT... Political Photographs - author : Éric Franceschi; Parenthèses Éditions; 2007
• MON OEIL - authors: Ariel Kenig, Éric Franceschi; Thierry Magnier Éditions; 2007