Former hotelier and creator of the Le Pont des Images gallery in Pont-l’Abbé, Philippe Beasse is above all a photographer. He proves it beautifully in his latest book which brings together 57 New York photographs in vintage colors, like so many intimate and nostalgic portraits of the city so loved.
For the past fifteen years, Philippe Beasse has been surveying New York’s “boroughs” to carry out an impossible inventory of atmospheres that contribute to the city’s identity. A city long fantasized and with which the first meeting was a real emotional shock, which marked him for life. “I’m in New York all the time,” he admits. We readily believe him, he who wears an NYPD (New York City Police Department, New York Police) t-shirt.
“We don’t take photographs because we know how to take them”
Before the pandemic, Philippe Beasse went to New York once or twice a year, to scour and photograph the city, never tired of the variety of its atmospheres and its architecture. Today he is like a rejected lover. “We don’t take photographs because we know how to take them,” he says. We do photography because we need to do it, the need to freeze the idea and to inscribe the inspiration in the long term. But also to share it with others ”. This is the raison d’être of “Revoir New York”, a captivating dive into the photographer’s archives, which finds there the muted colors and the moving intimacy of the works of Saul Leiter, New York pioneer of color photography in the 50s.
Convenient
“Revoir New York”, by Philippe Beasse, 62 pages, € 25. On sale at the Galerie Le Pont des Images, passage des Arcades, 29120 Pont-l’Abbé, and on the website www.photographies-philippebeasse.com
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