Christian Lebrat
Le temps déroulé
Author(s) Christian Lebrat
Artist(s) Christian Lebrat, Philippe Dubois, Janus, Daphné Le Sergent
Format Landscape format (21 x 29 cm), hardcover with three fold-outs and an illustrated dust jacket
Year 2013
Language(s) French, English
Pages 172 pages
Publisher Paris Expérimental
Description
Christian Lebrat uses photography in an unconventional way, exposing the entire roll of film directly during shooting. By disengaging the camera's automatic mechanisms, the "photographic ribbons" thus created through overlapping snapshots compose a single image. Referring both to the photographic panorama and to the cinematic film roll, these long ribbons resemble "temporal and spatial labyrinths where appearances unfurl like ribbons" (John Batho). The published monograph follows the photographer's trajectory, from black and white images made starting in 1978 to the color ribbons of recent years, including the "Hitchcock" series from the 2000s.
Artist photographer, filmmaker and video artist, Christian Lebrat has built "a rather unclassifiable body of work, with a mixed aesthetic, that plays out at the intersection of several modes of expression" (Philippe Dubois)
Texts by Philippe Dubois, Janus, Daphné Le Sergent, Christian Lebrat
Landscape format (21 x 29 cm), 172 p. hardcover with three fold-outs and an illustrated dust jacket
Paris, Paris Expérimental, 2013
Photography book
First ed. of 750 copies