What we leave behind
Subtitle: from Jean-Luc Godard's archive
By: photographs by Stéphan Crasneanscki ; foreword by Patti Smith ; conversation with Abel Ferrara ; essay by Antoine de Baecque
Contributors: Smith, Patti, writer of foreword; Ferrara, Abel, 1951- interviewee; Baecque, Antoine de, writer of supplementary textual content
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Libraryman
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9789188113450
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Pictorial works; Archives; Artistic Photography; Photography of art
Description: Subsequent to a commissioned sound composition for Deutschlandradio, multidisciplinary artist Stéphan Crasneanscki (b. 1969, French) further examines his significant opus What We Leave Behind, on French film director Jean-Luc Godard's archive, into book form. The book is divided into four comprehensive sections: boxes, collages, still lifes and notes. When invited to explore the archive of the seminal film director, Crasneanscki photographed Godard's personal collection of shot film, reel-to-reels and historical ephemera. The notes and references in the book attest to the passing of time, yet being saved from oblivion; as a fragmented creative map of a master film director's artistic thought process. In addition to working with someone's personal belongings and its cultural heritage, Crasneanscki also adds his own interpretation and admiration to the material's constellation of ideas of identity, traceability, temporality, space, memory, existence, materiality and historicity.0The book contains a foreword by musician, author and poet Patti Smith (b. 1946, American), a conversation with filmmaker Abel Ferrara (b. 1951, American) and an essay written by film critic, historian and editor Antoine de Baecque (b. 1962, French).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.