Fannie Escoulen is the independent curator of the ‘Elles x Paris Photo’ zine, and has been supported by the French Ministry of Culture. She graduated from the National School of Photography in Aries in 2000, and specializes in contemporary photography. She is known as an independent creator and has recently been the exhibition curator for Antoine D’Agata. Escoulen is also known for regularly collaborating with publishing houses o photographic projects ad carries out advisaory missions for companies.
I have chosen to study Escoulen as a photographer and curator because of the concept of using the alphabet to describe images in the ‘Elles X Paris Photo’. I think this is a great idea and could be very inventive to use during my bunker project. She also uses a lot of photo manipulation which is a concept which i am also debating on using, therefore i would like to look into her work in more detail.
Exhibition she has been involved in..
In her career, one of her main projects has been developing the zine ‘Elles X Paris Photo’. This is shown as an orange book which is an A5 size. This title is simply ‘ELLES X PARIS PHOTO’ in capital letters. The zine also includes a blurb which is written at the back page of the book.
The first page of the book is an introduction to the zine which relates to the ‘Paris’ theme and as been written in French. This translates into.. ‘The women with their cameras go beyond all traditions and place themselves on a par with men in the new art they now practice with so much passion. It is as if for six thousand years, the famine has fed a latent talent. She waited, accumulates her orces. Our greatest painters were men, do not we have the right to wait for our most famous photographs to be women?’
During this book there is an alphabetical order to the book where each page shows the letter, an image to do with the letter, and one word which describes the image, as shown below.
In order to understand her concept of the book more, i have decided to analyse two images from this booklet.
Technical analysis- Although we don’t know much about these images as there is no analysis on the interest, by looking at the images i can see that the images may have been taken in studio lighting because of the plain white background. This has been taken with a standard lense and with no depth of field used as the image is fully focused, this could also mean that a high shutter speed has been used in order to also create a fully focused image.
Visual analysis– As we can see all images have a plain white background and the images are centered in the middle of the page which a letter at the top of the page in the center, as well as a word which starts with that same letter underneath the image, again in the center.