Photo trouvée: 300 anonymous photographs selected by Michel Frizot and Cédric de Veigy

Éditions Phaidon has published 'Photo trouvée', a book by Michel Frizot and Cédric de Veigy featuring 300 anonymous photographs drawn from the vast reservoir of images humanity discards with indifference. The authors argue that these found photographs, lacking aesthetic value, gain a second life through the quality of the viewer's gaze, a process centered on empathy. The introduction posits a universal human quality in the modesty and awkwardness of these images, suggesting a radical definition of anonymous practices where value in the unremarkable opens political possibilities of non-mastery. The book was reviewed by Christophe Kihm in artpress in December 2006.