À la recherche du père
Camille Lévêque
delpire and co
French
Hardcover
256 pages
142 × 188 mm
2025
ISBN 9791095821700
Skillfully mixing images and texts, Camille Lévêque dissects patriarchy through a feminist prism of piquant irony. Eclectic visual journey through personal archives, montages, advertisements, family albums found at flea markets, collected objects, diverted images, videos, personal stories and interviews, Looking for the father wants to be the bible on the subject. To put in the hands of all followers of offbeat social criticism.
(Source: camilleleveque.com/THE-BOOK)
About the Artist
Camille Lévêque (b.1985, Paris) is a visual artist whose practice involves photography, collage, textile work, video and installation. While constantly developing her practice, she builds layered visual narratives blending documentary work with an artistic and personal approach. Her work explores the notions of memory, identity and origins, making the family a cornerstone of her analysis. Essentially working on the recontextualization and decontextualization of archives, she struggles to illustrate the idea of memory, its impact on the present and future, its boundaries and erasure, as well as distortions of perception linked to the passing of time. Having a strong interest in the notion of family mythology, her research starts from an individual perspective in order to confront a collective field, thus building a conversation around the importance of memory in hereditary history and in our relationship with reality. The photographic object becomes an excuse to question our ability to exchange, perceive and document truth, or, conversely, to distort it to our advantage and reinvent ourselves. By pushing the boundaries of the medium, she plays with the past in a way, trying to find a new approach to autobiography, whether at the individual or collective scale. Since 2014, she has been experiencing with notions of anonymity, authorship and identity through the LIVE WILD collective, in which she works under seven different names—her own and six aliases. Through different constructed works and aliases, she questions the importance of the figure of the artist in the development of their practice and career.
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About the Publisher
Delpire Éditeur was founded in 1953 by Robert Delpire, which managed the publishing house for over sixty years. The publisher, recognized as a genius of the image, has considerably contributed to the history of photography. After championing works by Robert Frank, William Klein, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, Delpire published creations by photographers whose work became canonical, such as Josef Koudelka, Sarah Moon, and more recently Daido Moriyama. Over the years, numerous eclectic collections, such as Maestro and Photo Poche, were created. They all carry the same ambition: to “surprise the eye” and propose a reflection on the image as graphic art. Another vocation of the house is to create a dialogue between photographs and words. Through the Des images et des mots collection, texts by remarkable authors—thinkers, novelists, and poets—such as Yves Bonnefoy, Michel Deguy, Jean-Paul Sartre, or Erik Orsenna, are associated with photographers. Today, with more than sixty titles, the publishing house continues to put its high standards, its know-how, and its passion at the service of artists. Each book is a unique object created so that the artworks stand out and become part of our lives. Beyond sensibilities, points of view, and writings—and without excluding styles or genres—the purpose of delpire & co remains unchanged: to create books as openings to the world around us and our own inner worlds. In 2020, Delpire became delpire & co, a publishing house and bookshop/gallery located at 13 rue de l’Abbaye in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the historic home of Delpire. Thus, delpire & co opened a new chapter in the publishing house’s history, in continuity with the spirit and approach of its founder.
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