Title: Bonjour Alan
Artist: Louis Gary
Same Dust
Softcover with dust jacket, Printed by tritone
230x 285 mm
44 pages
First edition 0f 300 copies (First 100 copies signed)
September 2022
ISBN: 9791197521010
Louis Gary의 Bonjour Alan의 첫 100권은 작가 사인본으로, 사인본이 모두 소진되면 비사인본이 판매됩니다.
French visual artist Louis Gary and his family were invited to his friend Alan’s wedding in South Korea while they were staying in New Zealand in 2018. In parallel to his sculpture and drawing practice, Louis had recently started taking photos again with an old large format camera. Thanks to a cheap stock of black and white medical film normally used for radiography, he was able to shoot pictures prolifically.
Whereas most photographers look for an excuse to not be their friend’s wedding photographer, Louis deals with the matter in his own tender and lopsided fashion, creating the chronicle of his friend’s wedding and of his family’s first South Korean experience.
The photos were put away in a box and forgotten for four years, until the South Korea-based publisher Same Dust proposed to edit them and to make a simple and delicate book out of them.
“BONJOUR ALAN“ is Same Dust’s first publication. It was launched at LE BAL Books in Paris in February 2022. The first 100 copies of the book are signed by the artist and a limited series of risograph prints produced by Same Dust are equally available to purchase.
French visual artist Louis Gary and his family were invited to his friend Alan’s wedding in South Korea while they were staying in New Zealand in 2018. In parallel to his sculpture and drawing practice, Louis had recently started taking photos again with an old large format camera. Thanks to a cheap stock of black and white medical film normally used for radiography, he was able to shoot pictures prolifically.
Whereas most photographers look for an excuse to not be their friend’s wedding photographer, Louis deals with the matter in his own tender and lopsided fashion, creating the chronicle of his friend’s wedding and of his family’s first South Korean experience.
The photos were put away in a box and forgotten for four years, until the South Korea-based publisher Same Dust proposed to edit them and to make a simple and delicate book out of them.
“BONJOUR ALAN“ is Same Dust’s first publication. It was launched at LE BAL Books in Paris in February 2022. The first 100 copies of the book are signed by the artist and a limited series of risograph prints produced by Same Dust are equally available to purchase.
