Antoine d’Agata
‘Oscurana’
by Antoine d’Agata, published by Void.
The images are notable for its immediate, almost brutal vision of the societies taken by the brutal spiral of violence. Through the degeneration and paroxysm of the flesh, the photographer tries to reveal fragments of a society that escape the usual analysis and visualization of the collective body. He exposes himself, sharpens his awareness of a world that absorbs and feeds, without any precaution or judgment.
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Oscurana
‘Oscurana’ presents a body of work that results from the various trips that Antoine d'Agata has made during more than thirty years in American countries: Brazil, Peru, Nicaragua, Salvador, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guatemala, Haiti, Puerto Rico, United States, Cuba, and Mexico.
Edited from a common selection of Antoine d’Agata’s images from Latin America, 7 different books share the same dimensions, title and artistic statement — a text called ‘Oscurana’. The project is done by different invited publishers, that were given the freedom to select the images, the design, the materials, printing and binding techniques.
The publishers:
Editions FIFV – Chile
Inframundo – Mexico
KWY – Peru
Le Dernier Cri – France
Sub, Editora – Argentina
Void – Greece
The Project
“‘Oscurana’ is a collaborative project developed amongst 6 publishers from different countries. Offering a reflection on the work of the Antoine d'Agata by several countries and publishers, in a dialogue that opens new perspectives in the ways of making photobooks.”
Inframundo
Oscurana by Void
For ‘Oscurana’ project, Void proposes a book to be autopsied. The reader will dig in the darkness within Antoine's oeuvre, being themselves, the legists of d'Agata's universe. An investigation from the intimacy, through the narcotic experiences until the darkness of the violence’s banality in America.
Antoine d’Agata
Antoine d’Agata is a French photographer born in Marseilles in 1961, where he spent his teenage years in violent combats for political militancy. Fascinated by the marginality, he had shared total experiences with whores, junkies, thugs. He left France in 1983 to travel the world. He went first to Central America, to distant revolutions, tin the search of self-destruction energy. Finding himself in New York in the early 90’s, he pursued an interest in photography by taking courses at the International Center of Photography where his teachers included Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. During his time in New York D'Agata worked in the editorial department of Magnum. His first books of photographs, De ‘Mala Muerte’ and ‘Mala Noche’, were published in 1998, and the following year Galerie Vu began distributing his work. In 2001 he published “Hometown”, and won the Niépce Prize for young photographers. He continued to exhibit and publish regularly.
17,4 x 23 cm
120 pages
Limited edition of 500 copies
Softcover
Portuguese text
ISBN 978-618-83825-7-2
Oscurana
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ENGLAND, Lanchester Library
GEORGIA, Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum
GREECE, National Library of Greece
GREECE, Void
SCOTLAND, Glasgow School of Art Library
SPAIN, Library of Museo San Telmo
USA, Getty Research Institute
USA, ICP Library
USA, MoMA Library
USA, Princeton University Library
USA, University of California, San Diego
USA, University of New Mexico Libraries
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Photograph: Antoine d’Agata
Text: Antoine d’Agata
Design: João Linneu
Edit: Myrto Steirou
Printing: Kostopoulos Printing
Binding: Void
Language: Portuguese
Font: Adobe Jenson Regular, Italic, Small Caps & Old Style
Antoine d’Agata © for the photographs and text
Void © for this edition