Journal des Mines (SIGNED AND NUMBERED, edt of 50)
_.jpg)
Elie Monferier
Journal des Mines (SIGNED AND NUMBERED, edt of 50)
Photographs: Elie Monferier
Publisher: Self-published
112 pages
Pictures: 109
Year: 2023
Price: 390 €
Comments: Copper hardcover on one side, 24 x 18 cm, b&w and color photograph. Numbered and signed edition of 50 copies. 25 per cover, here is the brown cover. Signed by Elie Monferier.
In the Pyrenees, from Roman antiquity to the late 1980s, Ariège was a major centre for mining. Silver, lead, zinc, phosphate, iron and tungsten were all mined here. With the industrial revolution, several major mining concessions were developed. Two remarkable sites in particular came into being: the Bentaillou mine, at an altitude of 2,000 meters, and the Bulard mine, the highest mine in Europe, vertiginously nestled at an altitude of 2,700 meters. Access to the latter is so dangerous that it has been nicknamed the "man-eater".
Not much remains of this mining past. A few relics that can be discovered along the way, collapsed barracks, rare explanatory panels, broken rails and carts, forest on top. Today, the mines are condemned for safety reasons. Where nature has not reclaimed its rights, the best that can be found is a heavy gate, a commemorative plaque and some scree alongside. Few people in the Ariege still take an interest in the industrial memory of the Pyrenees, whose activity has played a decisive role in shaping the landscape.
Journal des Mines is a photographic work on the historical, social and environmental imprint of mining activity in Ariège. In a territory threatened by oblivion, Elie Monferier examines the gradual disappearance of the material traces, archives and testimonies through which memory is formed and circulated. By confronting mining sites rendered inaccessible by changing landscapes, weather conditions, altitude and erosion, he probes how the different strata of memory affect what we can or cannot see, and how what remains hidden haunts a photographic approach that is constantly referred back to the notion of loss.
(From the artist's website)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
_.jpg)
more books by Elie Monferier
-
FABLE (Signed edt of 150)
by Elie Monferier
sold -
SACRE (SIGNED LTD EDT)
by Elie Monferier
sold -
SACRE (SPECIAL EDT OF 22 COPIES WITH PRINT)
by Elie Monferier
sold -
MAY YOU STAY (EDT OF 150 SIGNED)
by Elie Monferier
Euro 28
more books tagged »Artist's book« | >> see all
-
Playa Cero (signed)
by Alfredo Blasquez
sold -
MICTLAN (SPECIAL EDT /100 SIGNED)
by Joan Fontcuberta
sold -
Fail Again (UNIQUE)
by David O'Mara
sold -
Asahi Journal (07/04) #7 (UNIQUE and SIGNED)
by Thibault Tourmente
sold -
Birds of the West indies
by Taryn Simon
sold -
Siwah (Special handmade edition of 13)
by Paola Bragado
Euro 100
more books tagged »miner« | >> see all
-
Hillbilly Heroin, Honey
by Hannah Modigh
sold -
industrial zone
by Dolf Toussaint
Euro 120 -
BORINAGE - 1959
by Jeanloup Sieff
sold
more books tagged »signed « | >> see all
-
Wild Flowers (UNIQUE and signed)
by Veronica Mecchia
sold -
HONG KONG 2019
by Takehiko Nakafuji
sold -
FALSE FRIENDS (SIGNED)
by Dominic Turner
Euro 48 -
ANGST (HANDMADE EDITION WITH PRINT)
by Soham Gupta
sold -
Girls Seen
by Thomas Hauser
Euro 59 -
With And Without You (Signed copy)
by Jacob aue Sobol
Euro 70
more books tagged »extremely limited« | >> see all
-
Le Gyroscope humain (UNIQUE AND SIGNED)
by Ivan Alechine
Euro 600 -
Tomorrow never knows (SIGNED - ONLY 100 COPIES)
by François Santerre
sold -
Tin ashes (ONLY 40 COPIES WITH 6 PRINTS)
by Nobuyoshi Araki
sold -
Le Précipice (Edt of 50 with print)
by Jo-ey Tang
sold -
FAR FAR EAST : a bridge
by Carlos Lobo
Euro 20 -
Habiter poétiquement le monde (Signed and numbered)
by Veronica Mecchia
Euro 60
more books tagged »Self-published « | >> see all
-
Paper Walls (UNIQUE)
by David O'Mara
sold -
Numb (NUMBERED, edt of 20)
by Joanna Epstein
Euro 35 -
FENDU/E (SIGNED AND NUMBERED, edt of 7)
by Bastien Deschamps
Euro 2000 -
In Today's News: Alpha Males & Women Power (Signed)
by Kaamna Patel
Euro 30 -
PERSONA (SIGNED AND NUMBERED, edt of 15)
by Laura Rodari
Euro 800 -
MISERERE
by Marrie Bot
Euro 20
more books tagged »french photography« | >> see all
-
Asahi Journal (01/06) #2 (UNIQUE and SIGNED)
by Thibault Tourmente
sold -
Asahi Journal (03/11) #9 (UNIQUE and SIGNED)
by Thibault Tourmente
sold -
Asahi Journal (12/05) #8 (UNIQUE and SIGNED)
by Thibault Tourmente
sold -
Asahi Journal (13/08) #6 (UNIQUE and SIGNED)
by Thibault Tourmente
sold -
Shadow's Praise (COLLECTOR'S EDITION OF 20)
by David Nissen
Euro 250 -
Shadow's Praise (SIGNED)
by David Nissen
Euro 55
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com