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INLAND VOYAGE
39,00€
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INLAND VOYAGE
Quentin Pruvost, Robert Louis Stevenson
Afterwords : Hervé Leroy et Jean-Philippe Mailliez
Inland Voyage est un ouvrage d’ouverture, de quête vers l’inconnu. Il explore l’oeuvre de l’écrivain écossais Robert Louis Stevenson, notamment son court récit de voyage An Inland Voyage (Voyage sur les canaux du Nord), écrit en 1878, qui retrace avec humour et modernité le périple en canoë de Stevenson et de son ami Walter Grindlay Simpson sur les rivières et canaux de la Sambre et de l’Oise d’Anvers à Pontoise.
Les premières pages du livre nous font glisser doucement au fil de l’eau, jusqu’à entrer dans un monde en équilibre entre le rêve et la réalité. Les images du photographe Quentin Pruvost, parti sur les traces de l’écrivain, louvoient entre l’ombre et la lumière. Elles révèlent des personnages étonnants, des souvenirs de rêves passés et d’aventures possibles dans les paysages et les rencontres, dans la végétation foisonnante, dans les constructions humaines le long des berges de la Sambre et de l’Oise.
The reader is carried away by the current, carried away by dreams, suspended like a tightrope walker between the tangible and the invisible.
Au milieu du livre, apparaît le temps du rêve. Les images des rivières glissent vers le conte. Elles sont noires et blanches, parsemées de touches argentées.
Dans la troisième partie, le lecteur découvre au fil du livre des apparitions mystérieuses et des paréidolies saisies par Quentin Pruvost, comme s’il côtoyait l’esprit créatif de Stevenson entre les songes et le monde physique. A la fin de la traversée, le lecteur, plus sensible aux signes envoyés par les rêves, aura peut-être un peu changé…
Inland Voyage se termine par deux postfaces : l’une signée par l’écrivain et journaliste Hervé Leroy noue un dialogue entre l’oeil (photographique) et le verbe (littéraire), l’autre signée par le journaliste Jean-Philippe Mailliez nous emmène au coeur de la vie aventureuse du conteur Stevenson.
Technical features
- Release date : 8 November 2022
- Photographs : Quentin Pruvost
- Extraits de texte (An Inland Voyage 1878) : Robert Louis Stevenson
- Afterwords : Hervé Leroy et Jean-Philippe Mailliez
- Graphic Design : Arnaud Pavie, Quentin Pruvost et Eric Le Brun
- Book format : 21 x 27,5 cm / Weight : 0,700kg
- 128 pages – 65 photographies (55 en couleur, 10 en noir et blanc)
- Bilingual version: french, english
- English translation (afterwords): Harriet Thurgood
- French translation (text excerpts): Laurène Becquart
- Proofreading: Sandrine Harbonnier
- Print run: 900 copies
- Cover printed on Symbol Tatami Ivory 170gr and endpapers on Sirio Rough Royal Green 115gr
- CMYK photographs on Symbol Tatami Ivory 115gr and black and white photographs printed in silver pantone on Sirio Color Black 115gr
- Text excerpts on Sirio Color Black 115gr
- Afterwords on Munken Print White 115gr
- Softcover sewn glued spine
- ISBN : 9791095118237
- Public price : 39 €
Press and booksellers' comments
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Excerpts from newspapers articles and booksellers' comments
« French photographer Quentin Pruvost chose to explore the work of Scottish writer and traveler Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). The latter made, at the age of 25, a canoe trip on the rivers of the North, from Antwerp to Pontoise, an experience that he will translate with humor and modernity in the book Inland Voyage. Accompanied by this story, the photographer begins his journey along the river and the canals of the Sambre to relive this initiatory journey.
The landscapes are also those of his childhood, thus awakening his own memories... From the first pages, we discover mysterious images where it is sometimes difficult to draw the dividing line between water and vegetation. The images confuse reality and illusion. The journey continues with a few portraits here and there that bring tangibility to those silent landscapes. »
Ericka Weidmann dans Réponses Photo
« There’s lots of rain and the pair get soaked to the skin, a dampness caught in the chill of Pruvost’s fluvial illustrations, Stevenson’s trunks of hedgerow elms are caught in all their unworldly glory. “Trees are the most civil society.” You can near smell the sweetness of Pruvost’s forest photography.
As for the river we flow, looking at these shots, along with Arethusa and Cigarette, via a gentle pull of “enchanting purity”. One suspects Pruvost, like Stevenson, hates cynicism – both are unapologetically romantic. Their river workers, the poorer classes, are portrayed as being “much more charitably disposed than their superiors in wealth.”
John Quin dans The National
Vegetation is mysterious, there is this feeling of presence, there is noise in silence.
The river could be called Mnemosyne.
Is it in Northern Europe or somewhere in Georgia, US ?
Appears a sailor, more likely a boatman, peaceful, focused on the landscape and his inner world.
The eyes navigate in the images, almost Tarkovskiesian ones but without the drama or the feeling of sacrifice specific to the Russian master.
There are certainly some monstrous industrial buildings, ancient human constructions laid down in the surroundings like scars, but everything passes, water flows, philosophy is the natural state of the shore walker.
Fabien Ribery dans L’Intervalle
Il existe une lecture performée photographique, musicale et théâtrale autour du projet INLAND VOYAGE.
The public follow the footsteps of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson who canoed down the Sambre and Oise rivers...
The screening of Quentin Pruvost's photographs reveals explorations and contemplative, mysterious, fantastic moments of the trip, while the rendering of Hervé Leroy and Jean-Philippe Mailliez, actors-lecturers, adds Stevenson's whimsical and funny vision. The journey is punctuated by Timothée Couteau's two cellos…
| Weight | 0,7 kg |
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| Dimensions | 21 × 1 × 27,5 cm |