Artpress Volume Explores Photographic Experimentation from Fontcuberta to Tillmans

A new volume from Artpress, 'Les grands entretiens: La photographie. Expérimentations,' gathers interviews with artists who push the boundaries of the photographic medium. The book features Joan Fontcuberta’s fictions, Thomas Ruff’s appropriations, and Alain Fleischer’s long-exposure works that transform photography into an art of movement and projection. The editors—Patricia Brignone, Étienne Hatt, Catherine Millet, Evence Verdier, and Erik Verhagen, with a preface by Nathalie Delbard—frame the discussion around pushing internal limits rather than opening photography to other arts. Digital technology plays a dual role: it paradoxically spurred a return to analog fundamentals like chemistry, producing abstract works, while also enabling previously impossible images. Wolfgang Tillmans is highlighted as the artist who best embodies this ambivalence, constantly experimenting to create 'images for today.' The book includes a quote from Fleischer: 'Photography serves to see what one usually does not see.'