Asian Portraits. Pierre Gonnord.

Pierre Gonnord's Asian portraits were virtually unknown until Casa Asia He brought them together in an exhibition (2006) and for this reason he edited this monograph. This volume consists of images by this French photographer based in Spain, internationally recognized for his way of approaching photography “starting from the purity of a language without artifice.” Gonnord, since its beginnings, has been attracted by the force of expression that can be detected in the faces of certain subjects, often socially excluded and marginalized, whose existence is stored in the gaze of the model captured by the photographer, who achieves In turn, we rediscover ourselves by glimpsing the truth of being. In the Asian portraits of Pierre Gonnord one can perceive with some accuracy the force of what Barthes calls point and compares it with an arrow that “comes to pierce him,” when he is in front of a certain photograph. The gravity of the images that are reproduced, derived from the models of these already absent portraits, intensifies the tension between their imaginary life and the death that invokes their absence, what they have been or what they were and will not be again.

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