Publications
Alfred Latour
Regard sur la forme
presents the work and research carried out by Alfred Latour (member of the UAM – Union of Modern Artists) between 1928 and 1964 in two of the means of expression he used throughout his career: photography and textile print design.
Authors
Daniel Rouvier, Aziza Gril-Mariotte, Marion Falaise, Matthieu Gafsou
Book details
- Alfred Latour, Regard sur la forme
- 160 pages
- Format: 27.9 × 22.4 cm
- Indicative price: CHF 44.70 / €29.00
- Paperback edition
- April 2024
Alfred Latour
The Art of a Free Man
The work of Alfred Latour — painter, engraver and accomplished watercolourist, but also book maker, celebrated photographer, advertising artist and renowned and much sought-after fabric designer. A member of the Union of Modern Artists (UAM) founded by Robert Mallet-Stevens, Latour excelled at every type of expression he tried his hand at. Lauded by critics from 1928 to 1960, recognized by the prize committees of the European salons of his day, he lived in Eygalières, far from the bustle of the city. Today his works can be found at the Pompidou Centre, the French national Library, the Cantini Museum and the Lyons Museum of Fabrics, as well as at the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and others.
Authors
Christian Lacroix, Martin Rueff, Nicolas Raboud, Roger Chatelain, Claire Berthommier, Daniel Girardin
Book details
- Alfred Latour – The Art of a Free Man
- 249 pages, 266 images
- Format: 24 x 30 cm
- € 39.– / CHF 45.–
- Hardback
Alfred Latour, Photographs
Framing his Times
The work presents the photography of the painter and graphic designer Alfred Latour for the first time. Taken between the late nineteen twenties and the early nineteen sixties, the pictures reveal a hidden facet of the talent of an artist who was a member of the Union of Modern Artists founded by Robert Mallet Stevens. His perspectives as painter, advertising artist and fabric designer can easily be discerned in his photography, a medium that he deployed briefly in the service of the Meurisse press agency in Paris. Throughout his life, Latour employed photography as a sounding board for subjects that he had already fixed upon for painting or engraving. Less frequently, he resorted to his camera to constitute a sketchbook. The vast, black and white panorama that resulted from his efforts constitutes a prodigious witness to his times and society.
Authors
- Daniel Rouvier, Pierre Starobinski
Book details
- Alfred Latour, Photographs – Framing his Times
- 128 pages, 120 images
- Format: 22 x 27 cm
- 29.– € / 33.– CHF
- Hardback
Alfred Latour, Photographs
Framing his Times
Limited luxury edition of 75 copies, of which 50 are numbered from 1 to 50 and 25 withheld copies are numbered H/C from I to C.
Every copy contains a numbered and stamped original print run on Hahnemühle Baryta paper.
All copies of the limited luxury edition come in a presentation box.
The sale price is fixed at € 230.– all tax included.
Copies on sale at the Réattu Museum and from Actes Sud publishing, Arles.
PRIX ALFRED LATOUR
Métadécouverte
Keight – Prix Alfred Latour 2023/24
Honoured in 2023 with the Alfred Latour Prize, established in memory of this multi-talented French artist (1888–1964), the Lausanne-based artist Keight had two years to create “Métadécouverte”.
Presented as a quasi-instruction manual, a self-help book, an exorcism project, the work is in reality a reflection on the very representation of this introspection, both in the form and in the substance of the texts and images. It is thus able to constitute a ‘meta-instruction manual’, an object itself detached from its context, a work by a designer as much as by an artist.
Authors
Philippe Filliot
Michel Odoul
Book details
- Métadécouverte, Keight
- 240 pages
- 230 images
- Format: 30,5 x 21 cm
- Prix: 49.- CHF/ 39.– €
- Hardback
- January 2025
Not a night without a day
Olivier Christinat – Prix Alfred Latour 2021/22
When Olivier Christinat, winner of the 2021 Alfred Latour Prize, explores the boundaries of the image, text emerges. Or perhaps it is the other way around: writing permeates the images. In Pas un jour sans une nuit, iconic texts – the Old Testament in Hebrew, Virgil’s Aeneid in Latin, Dante’s Divine Comedy in Italian, and Kafka’s Metamorphosis in German – are reproduced in their entirety, yet paradoxically almost invisible: they demand a different kind of reading, that of an image, of a texture.
This new way of looking then alters our perception of the photographic images, which reveal surprising correspondences.
Forword
Julie Enckell Julliard
Book details
- Not a night without a day, Olivier Christinat
- 200 pages
- 125 images
- Format: 24,5 x 33 cm
- Price: 49.- CHF/ 39.– €
- Hardback
- October 2022
The space of fragments
Sabine Hertig – Alfred Latour Young Artist Prize 2021/22
Using thousands of fragments and snippets of images from newspapers, magazines, and books, Sabine Hertig, a Basel-based artist born in 1982, creates profound and moving landscapes using scissors and glue. Here, collage is understood as a living tool for reflection on a world that has itself become a montage composed of multiple pieces of information. Sometimes, after gluing the papers, she intervenes with sandpaper, until the canvas is stripped of all content. From a distance, her collages, while developing a dynamic spatial depth, evoke the art of painting great historical frescoes. At the same time, her large-scale works follow no linear pictorial narrative; on the contrary, when viewed up close, they disintegrate into the fragments of their individual images, into a network of bodies, animals, objects, textiles, and natural and architectural elements. With this book, Sabine Hertig aims to sharpen the viewer’s gaze and immerse them in a wholly new way in her unique universe, making use of the montage and juxtapositions of the works as they unfold across the pages.
Collages
Sabine Hertig
Interview
Nicolaj van der Meulen
Book details
- Not a night without a day, Olivier Christinat
- 64 pages
- 53 images
- Format: 22 x 28 cm
- Price: 25.- CHF/ 19.– €
- Hardback
- October 2022
The Heart Between the Teeth – A Primitive Manifesto
Augustin Rebetez – Alfred Latour Prize 2019/20
“Rebetez’s art is an immersive, powerful and moving practice, designed to fascinate and sweep away those who allow themselves to be intrigued: much like the figures in Louise Bourgeois’s ‘Femme Maison’series, he presents us with haunted places that often have a naïve, childlike quality, drawn with an impulsive, direct and sincere hand. What interests the artist is shaping a language, a system of references and symbols that are dear to him,” writes Michela Alessandrini in her preface.
© Actes Sud/ Fondation Alfred Latour, 2020
Forword
Michela Alessandrini
Afterword
Antoine Volodine
Book details
- The Heart Between the Teeth – A Primitive Manifesto, Augustin Rebetez
- 384 pages
- Format: 20 x 26,5 cm
- Price: 49.- CHF/ 39.– €
- Hardback
- October 2020
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