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By: I.N.

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:29:33 +0000

I’m sorry to say that, knowing the artist well, the decision to end so many years of success as a photographer is not quite as ‘ideal’ as him not having much more to say artistically… Despite being a great artists, he was not, like no one is anymore, immune to the hysteria surrounding youth. He lived in a country particularly affected by the deep neurosis, and has no great wish to return. Some might call this a voluntary exile.
Of course, a great great shame, as one more door closes.

By: Fulcher

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:54:12 +0000

No, the pants are just sitting very low as you can see in the “making of” from his home page:
http://www.bernardfaucon.net/photos/index.htm

By: David

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:56:16 +0000

I’ve often wondered if some of those photographs aren’t cropped at the bottom to eliminate the genitals…

By: Oliver

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:35:02 +0000

Rimmer : all the answers about your questions (to Josh or me) can be found in a beautiful and great french artbook dedicated to Bernard Faucon’s work. The title is simply “Bernard Faucon”, the publisher is “Actes Sud”- 2005 (ISBN : 9782742756674). Hundred of large scale pics perfectly printed : a pure wonder ! I hope there is an english version.

To be short : Bernard Faucon decided to put an end to his work as an artist-photographer because he thought he had express everything he could and didn’t want to repeat himself or do something which is not perfect according to his eyes. A little bit like Arthur Rimbaud, but in fact Bernard Faucon goes on making photographies nowadays but in a different way (see his website).

About “Voyage avec deux enfants”, clues are given by Hervé Guibert himself in some notes of the artbook published by Actes Sud. “Voyage avec deux enfants”, written in the 80s, describes in sensual and litterary words the journey in North Africa of to mens (rather young – in fact : Guibert and Faucon) and two boys (not relatives). A strange and fascinating book, published in France by “Les éditions de Minuit”.

By: Rimmer

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:44:55 +0000

Josh: tell us the story. Why “the voluntary interruption of his work … an intentional and decisive closure from which Bernard Faucon has not returned”?

Oliver: tell us about “Voyage avec deux enfants” and Faucon’s place in it.

By: claude simard

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:27:34 +0000

I love every work of Bernard Faucon’s. He is a true poet, and a lover of boys’ beauty in every aspect of it. Thank you for all that beauty! Claude

By: Andrew

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:30:34 +0000

These are all absolutely fascinating! I really like his manipualtion of lighting in his images.

By: Oliver

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:16:45 +0000

Thanks Josh for this generous tribute about one of the greatest photographer of our time. Not agree with mat : no photography is “average” in Bernard Faucon’s work :-) ! Just look at a book on his work or, better, see an exhibition… It’s a marvellous and touching experience.

NB : Faucon’s life is also interesting ; few people knows he was the second man evocated in the Herve Guibert’s book : “Voyage avec deux enfants” (Journey with two children), for example.

By: tanlower

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:40:52 +0000

A huge amount of pictures is available in the author website http://www.bernardfaucon.net/photos/index.htm