Douro Editions "Through reading, we become absent from ourselves and our own lives." Alphonse Karr
Jean-Bernard Pouy
Jean-Bernard Pouy, author of more than a hundred novels (including fifteen in the Série Noire), as many short stories and a tsunami of articles, he also created, as collection director, the Poulpe series, Pierre de Gondol, the Grise series, Tourisme and Polar… A stubborn defender of popular literature, torn between social criticism, cynical distance, lamentable humor and libertarian gravity, he finds himself the cause of a certain deforestation. He is also a fellow traveler of the Oulipo, assiduously practicing writing with constraints, and notably participating in the program Des Papous dans la tête on France Culture. Photo Wikipedia Jean-Marie DAVID
Elizabeth Prouvost
Elizabeth Prouvost is a photographer. Her first discovery of the body was that of others through the lens of a camera. She would go on to become a camera operator and director of photography. She won the Caméra d'Or at Cannes in 1991 for Sabine Prenczina's Farendj. It wasn't until 1993 that photography allowed her to break a taboo: the naked body. From then on, her approach focused on the naked body and only on it. With a few exceptions, such as here in this crossover with Jean-Bernard Pouy.
This book is a game, a play of images and words between a photographer and a writer. The photographer offers the writer a photograph made of instant memories. He is allowed to look at it for thirty seconds before writing his own interpretation of old memories. This back-and-forth will be repeated 46 times. Why 46? Because it's the year Elizabeth Prouvost and Jean-Bernard Pouy were born.
