Guibert, Hervé Del Amo, Jean-Baptiste Marzolff, Sophia
Hervé Guibert fing 1972, als Siebzehnjähriger, zu photographieren an, mit einer kleinen Rollei 35, die er von seinem Vater bekam. So beginnt Agathe Gaillard den Begleittext zu einer Ausstellung mit Photographien Guiberts, die wenige Monate nach seinem Tod am 27. Dezember 1991 stattfand. 1993 erschien bei Gallimard ein erster Sammelband, Hervé Guibert, Photographies. Zwanzig Jahre nach Guiberts Tod interessiert sich eine neue Generation für den Schriftsteller und Photographen. Anlässlich einer Retrospektive in der Maison européenne de la photographie haben Christine Guibert und Agathe...
Hervé Guibert fing 1972, als Siebzehnjähriger, zu photographieren an, mit einer kleinen Rollei 35, die er von seinem Vater bekam. So beginnt Agathe ...
Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays--meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems--and not a single image. Herve Guibert's brief, literary rumination on photography was written in response to Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, but its deeply personal contents go far beyond that canonical text. Some essays talk of Guibert's parents and friends, some describe old family photographs and films, and spinning through them all are reflections on remembrance, narcissism, seduction, deception, death, and the phantom images that have been missed. ...
Ghost Image is made up of sixty-three short essays--meditations, memories, fantasies, and stories bordering on prose poems--and not a single im...
The Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert's journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does not materialize as such; the journal itself -- a mausoleum of lovers -- comes to take its place. The sensual exigencies and untempered forms of address in this epistolary work, often compared to Barthes' A Lover's Discourse, use the letter and the photograph in a work that hovers between forms, in anticipation of its own disintegration.
The Mausoleum of Lovers comprises Guibert's journals, kept from 1976-1991. Functioning as an atelier, it forecasts the writing of a novel, which does ...
By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitalization because of complications of AIDS. Cytomegalovirus is spare, biting, and anguished. Guibert writes through the minutiae of living and of...
By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oe...
By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitalization because of complications of AIDS. Cytomegalovirus is spare, biting, and anguished. Guibert writes through the minutiae of living and of...
By the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oe...
In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a liter of tequila, smoked Congolese grass, snorted cocaine... -- from Crazy for Vincent
Crazy for Vincent begins with the death of the figure it fixates upon: Vincent, a skateboarding, drug-addled, delicate "monster" of a boy in whom the narrator finds a most sublime beauty. By turns tender and violent, Vincent drops in and out of French writer and photographer Herve Guibert's life over the span of six years (from 1982, when...
In the middle of the night between the 25th and 26th of November, Vincent fell from the third floor playing parachute with a bathrobe. He drank a l...
