Jean-Bernard Pouy
Jean-Bernard Pouy, author of over a hundred novels (fifteen of which were published in the Série Noire collection), as many short stories, and a deluge of articles, also created, as series editor, the Poulpe series by Pierre de Gondol, the Grise series, the Tourisme series, and the Polar series. A staunch defender of popular literature, torn between social criticism, cynical detachment, lamentable humor, and libertarian seriousness, he finds himself responsible for a certain amount of deforestation. He is also a fellow traveler of the Oulipo group, assiduously practicing constrained writing, and notably participating in the radio program "Des Papous dans la tête" on France Culture. Photo: Jean-Marie David (Wikipedia)
Elizabeth Prouvost
Elizabeth Prouvost is a photographer. Her first encounter with the body was through the lens of a camera. She would later 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 nude body. From then on, her work would focus solely on the nude. Except in exceptional cases, such as this interplay with Jean-Bernard Pouy.
This book is a game, a game of images and words between a photographer and a writer. The photographer presents the writer with a photograph made of fleeting memories. He has the right to look at it for thirty seconds before writing his own interpretation of past memories. This exchange will be repeated 46 times. Why 46? Because that is the year of birth of Elizabeth Prouvost and Jean-Bernard Pouy.
