Lâmo lâva
By: photography and research, Melanie Matthieu ; text and editing, Melanie Matthieu and Scott Rogers
Publisher: Alauda Publications
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789081531498
Subjects: Artistic Photography; Pictorial works; Our Lady of La Salette; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Work titles: Photographs
Description: Lâmo lâva revolves around a journey undertaken by Zürich-based visual artist Melanie Matthieu to the pilgrimage site of Our Lady of La Salette in the French Alps, where an apparition is said to have occurred in 1846. The book consists of a photographic as well as a text-based section, each of which is distinctly bound into a hand-folded cover. The captivating analogue photographs meander between bodies and landscapes, between an outside and an inside. The textual section features an interplay of voices, including Léon Bloy, Camille Claudel, Roger Callois and Julia Kristeva. Every book in this numbered first edition contains a riso print.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.