Elger Esser : Morgenland

ISBN-13: 9783829607971 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 180 str.

Mathias Enard

Opis

With views often comprised largely of air and water, light and its reflection, there is a sense of placelessness to Elger Esser's landscapes--beaches, wetlands, riverbeds, and valleys--despite his lending of location details to the titles. Such places offer up a low, straight horizon that is, alongside Esser's signature coloring, one of the most striking details of the resulting image. His most recent series presents landscapes and places on the Lebanon coast: En Naqora, Saida, Enfeh; along the river Nile in Egypt: Aswan, Luxor, Salwa Bahry, El Quarwad; and Israel: Sea of Galilee, Akko. As in his previous series taken in Italy and France, his photographs pay tribute to the universal lure of a seemingly infinite horizon and ultimate calm in the foreground.

O autorze

Mathias Énard, born in Niort, France, in 1972, is a French writer and translator. He studied Arabic and Farsi and spent several years in the Middle East. In 2015 he received the Prix Goncourt for his novel Compass bridging Europe and the Islamic world.