“Claude Estèbe SWEET WASTE Digital Works 2009-2019” photobook by French Art photographer CLAUDE ESTEBE

210 x 230 mm, 144 pages, 150 colors photographs.

Printed by Toot Yung Art Center, Bangkok, 2019.

Texts in English for a publication of 500 hundred copies. Printed in Bangkok, Thailand.

This book is the monographic catalog printed for the retrospective of the last 10 years ( 2009-2019) of Claude Estèbe ‘s photographs at the Toot Yung Art Center in Chiang Mai (Thailand) from mid-november 2019 to early february 2020.

Texts in English for a publication of 500 hundred copies, by @.

The texts in English include :

- Claude Estèbe, In Wonderland…

An introduction by Michel Poivert, the leading French historian of photography (translated from French by Jum Stillwaggon).

- Sweet Waste

An essay by Manit Sriwanichpoom, proeminent Thai artist and curator.

- The mourning of a Dream

An essay by Agnès Giard, French writer and anthropologist who made her Ph.D about Japanese Lovedolls.

- Interview

by Myrtille Tibayrenc, artist and curator, director of Toot Yung Art Center.

Chapters :

TUKATA

AGENT ORANGE

RADIUM GIRLS

PACHIMON
H DOLLS

ULTRANATURE

SWEET WASTE

Content link :

https://www.flickr.com/photos/claude-estebe/49214501621/in/dateposted/

Critic :

“The grand visual poem achieved by Claude Estèbe is a reading of our contemporary world through it’s idols . Desire, capitalism, death... many of the objects he examines close-up are copies, some of shoddy execution. Estèbe grew attached to the flawed figurines, whose beauty he has the gift of unveiling. Behind the looking-glass image of heroic beauty hides another world, that of fantasy.

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Claude Estebe is an artist of embodiment. It’s not about a spirit which becomes body, but rather of an object which encounters the desire of the body. The creation of an imaginary world often springs from the observation of very concrete things. The institutionalisation of toys rendered “invisible” these objects which condense our desires and our fears from infancy. It took the work of the artist and the scientist to reveal this magical empire. In this sense, the artistic approach forged by his scientific culture places Claude Estèbe in the heritage of Lewis Carrol.”

Michel Poivert

Among the subjects photographed in this book :

Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Ultraman, Getter Robot, Japanese and Chinese Lovedolls.

Additional pictures of the book on request.

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