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Valérie Belin: Black Eyed Susan

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Valérie Belin: Black Eyed Susan
Valérie Belin
JRP|Ringier

Hardcover
156 pages
243x17x345 mm
2011
ISBN: 978-3-03764-184-2

“I come from painting.” It is not surprising that Valérie Belin should describe her work as coming from painting, for it would be curious indeed to call her a photographer. Although she uses a photographer’s equipment, her masterful control of the technique enables her to transcend the imprint of reality and preclude reference to the world. Belin tells us nothing about the circumstances out there; she offers no evidence; she advances no arguments and makes no comments. She takes the world and makes pictures out of it. Her latest moves—colour and montage—are therefore perfectly logical. Thanks to digital technology, she can now also impose her will on the pictures she creates in colour. Never has photography been so far removed from naive naturalism and normality.

Valérie Belin was born in 1964 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. She lives and works in Paris, France.
www.valeriebelin.com

JRP|Ringier is a Swiss publisher of high-quality books on contemporary art, run by Lionel Bovier in Zurich, Switzerland.