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"Small photo book 'Summer of the Fawn' was my personal discovery on the Kehrer booth during the ParisPhoto 2018 and went straight to my private photo book shelf with no prospect of divestment.
What convinced me - without knowing LABOILE's last photobook - and spontaneously moved me to buy is the unity of design and content.
'Summer of the Fawn' shows us the everyday life of LABOILE's family in southwestern France. The pictures breathe such a joy of life and discovery - on both sides: children as well as photographer - that one gets very warm around the heart and immediately sets a yearning for one's own childhood. The small book format underlines the personal experience. "(© Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"At the latest since the great success of his book 'At the Edge of the World' (2015), the French photographer Alain LABOILE is well known around the world among connoisseurs of black-and-white photography. I
n his new photobook, 'Summer of the Fawn', he once again provides insight into the free and nearly fairytale-like life of his family in a small village in the southwest of France.
Far away from social constraints, school stress, Facebook & Co., it always seems to be summer here, and his six children frolic barefoot in an enchanted garden, in which one encounters cats, grass snakes, and even a fawn. Nevertheless, rules do indeed exist, even in fairytales – we thus also see how the children are homeschooled: sensibly and lovingly, and often outdoors.
'Summer of the Fawn' is a beautiful, vivacious, and at the same time melancholic ode to childhood and life." (publisher's note, © Kehrer Verlag, 2018)
"Small photo book 'Summer of the Fawn' was my personal discovery on the Kehrer booth during the ParisPhoto 2018 and went straight to my private photo book shelf with no prospect of divestment.
What convinced me - without knowing LABOILE's last photobook - and spontaneously moved me to buy is the unity of design and content.
'Summer of the Fawn' shows us the everyday life of LABOILE's family in southwestern France. The pictures breathe such a joy of life and discovery - on both sides: children as well as photographer - that one gets very warm around the heart and immediately sets a yearning for one's own childhood. The small book format underlines the personal experience. "(© Richard G. SPORLEDER)
"At the latest since the great success of his book 'At the Edge of the World' (2015), the French photographer Alain LABOILE is well known around the world among connoisseurs of black-and-white photography. I
n his new photobook, 'Summer of the Fawn', he once again provides insight into the free and nearly fairytale-like life of his family in a small village in the southwest of France.
Far away from social constraints, school stress, Facebook & Co., it always seems to be summer here, and his six children frolic barefoot in an enchanted garden, in which one encounters cats, grass snakes, and even a fawn. Nevertheless, rules do indeed exist, even in fairytales – we thus also see how the children are homeschooled: sensibly and lovingly, and often outdoors.
'Summer of the Fawn' is a beautiful, vivacious, and at the same time melancholic ode to childhood and life." (publisher's note, © Kehrer Verlag, 2018)
- Ed(s)/Author(s)
- Laurence Kiberlain
- Book design
- Anja ARONSKA
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 18 x 24 x 1,5 cm., 112 pp., 83 b/w duplex ills., bilingual text: French / English