Starring
Edition of 50
Book
Starring
Author
Sébastien Girard
Date
2017
Very large softcover, 156 pages, orange painted fore-edge.
Printed and hand-bound by Sébastien Girard in his studio.
XL book, 29,5 x 37 cm (11.6 x 14.6 in)
Edition of 50 copies
Signed and numbered
Tabloids turn out the stars : Starring deconstructs them. Photography draws the stars closer to their public : Starring distances them. Starring is a book about photography.
In Starring, the systematic use of a low resolution halftone conveys the idea of image deterioration, a wearing-out resulting from the excessive reproduction of these very same images.
Taken, printed and then digitized, shrunk, enlarged, constantly captured and recaptured into different analogue and digital formats, these photographs of stars are here put back into perspective by an artistic process which, in so doing, becomes a critical process.
The book deprives us of any illusion of proximity towards these personalities, buried page after page in their own imagery.
Starring was born from the obsession of a photographer collecting online digital photographs. Saving scans of pictures from websites selling lots of tabloid clippings, I started collecting these derisory materials. Then, from their very insignificance, I invented a book.
