Shadows, au bord de l'ombre

In this very personal and poetic book, which can be read as a dream and revealed autobiography, Gérard Rondeau is offering us splendid black and white photographs - mirrors of the world, of zones of shadows and suffering, of silences and cracks. Sometimes surreslistic, when showing us the Grand Jeu of Roger Vailland, and at times very realistic, through a gallery of portraits of Louise Bourgeois, Modiano, Bashung, Roy Lichtenstein, Cabu or Paul Bowles, his images are vivid testimonies, outstanding stories. Between shadows and light, from the landscapes of the Champagne Region marked by the Great War, where the artist comes from, to those of Sarajevo which also carry the traces of the bullets, including those of Tanger, happier, Gérard Rondeau is revealing us the twists and turns of his imagination. In an intimate and uncluttered style, he gathers fragments and traces of wars, time and men. Gérard Rondeau stands as one of the greatest photgraphers of our time, as an image writer. Philippe Dagen is a contemporary History of Art teacher at the Sorbonne University and an art critic, especially for the newspaper Le Monde. He wrote several books, especially about the Louvre, the painter Paul Rebeyrolle, Morocco, the Quai Branly, the Baltic capital cities, the Ghosts of the Chemin des Dames … Gérard Rondeau is a rare and singular photographer. He was elected best plastician artist of the year in the Globes de Cristal Awards of 2007.