Publisher/うたかた堂

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"A Contretemps" is a collection of works by French photographer Patrick Taverna (1964-). He deepened his connection with photography through travel, and after moving to Paris in 1987, he joined the photographers' collective Club des 30x40. In 1997, he launched a project called "Passage en Ouest," in which he regularly mailed photographs to people including his idols Robert Frank and Bernard Pross, which later developed into friendships with both of them. In 2004, he won the HSBC Photography Foundation Award for "Au fil des jours," and the collection of works of the same name received high praise in France, with Pross contributing an afterword. This work is a series centered on photographs taken in places he traveled to with his wife and two children, weaving together fragments of family growth, daily life, and unfamiliar landscapes with soft colors and wavering images. As the title "À contretemps" suggests, the entire book is permeated with a gaze that resists the ever-moving flow of time and tries to preserve the fleeting images of young children and family memories. While it is a travelogue, it is a book filled with the intimacy of a personal diary tracing past memories and a quiet nostalgia.