Artpress compiles photography dialogues between historians and artists

Artpress has published a collection of interviews titled "Les grands entretiens: La photographie. Des histoires," featuring conversations between photography historians and artists. Clément Chéroux, chief curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, discusses vernacular photography and its impact on artistic creation. Michel Poivert, an academic, emphasizes theatricality in photography, a quality historically suppressed by the medium's reliance on painting models. Artists Jeff Wall and Roy Arden, both Canadian, exchange views on their mutual admiration and differing approaches. A polemical conversation between Jan Dibbets, a key figure in photoconceptualism, and Michel Poivert highlights contradictions between historical and artistic perspectives. The book includes contributions from Dominique Baqué, Régis Durand, Étienne Hatt, and Michel Poivert, with a preface by Erik Verhagen. Dibbets states, "A good photograph is always a manifesto."