Marseille to be precise
Category : Photography Photographs : Jacques Filiu Text : Christophe Berthoud 60 photographs Size : 26 x 22 cm/ Hardback 96 pages / Colour French Le Bec en l'air ISBN : 9782367440651 / 34 € Release date : Rights availableMarseille is much-photographed and provokes many representations in the collective imagination. So where does this unique sensation created by the images of Jacques Filiu come from? Leaving behind nice images and tourist clichés, this photographer with an exacting eye uses his compositions and subtle chrome finish to reveal the invisible beauty of everyday life, of a natural landscape in collision with the signs of modernity and of unknown or neglected neighbourhoods, which however go to create the unique identity of Marseille.
