"Voyages de mémoire" is Patrick Zachmann's latest monographic book, which will accompany his big retrospective show at the Museum of Jewish Art and History in Paris during the winter of 2021. The book collects over a dozen of his key series, some of which have never been published before.
Patrick Zachmann's work as a Magnum photographer is sophisticated and dense. It is understood in light of various reoccurring motifs that run throughout it. The first, and most crucial, is the issue of Jewish identity. He investigates, examines, and discovers this identity by first introspecting inside his own family and then traveling to various locations in Europe, such as a gathering of camp survivors or a community in Paris. This work questions the very notion of a community, of an identity, as strong as the Jewish one. From these reflections, other paths emerge, ones that the photographer easily treads, such as those of exile or disappearance. Indeed, he does not solely focus on Jewish identity but also photographs South Africa and its anti-Nazi gatherings, Rwanda and the survivors of the genocide, or the disappearance of people during the Chilean dictatorship. In this corpus in black and white and color, Zachmann highlights the fragility of our relationships with others while revisiting his body of work. "Voyages de mémoire" is the new comprehensive retrospective of Patrick Zachmann's work, from "So Long, China" (EXB, 2016) at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris.
Patrick Zachmann: Voyages de mémoire
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
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Author: Patrick Zachmann
Publisher: Xavier Barral
Publication Date:
2021
Print Length: 215 pages
Language: French
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