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To his pragmatism Mister G. added a rigorous method that, as an obsessive worker, and like any serious artist, he established at the outset. This method is both simple and, indeed, economical: after a spot of rumination on humanist notions or basic universal themes that he might wish to act out, he sets himself the daily task of sketching out emblematically resonant situations and taking the corresponding photographs of himself...




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...He then cuts out his figure, and sometimes that of this wife, and places it (them) in a model built using basic materials (glue, string, scissors, ink, paper, photos, etc.) that will fit on a tabletop He now holds a mini-photography session lit by two approximate gardens spotlights in his grandfather’s tiny shed in La Ciotat.

Once he has done all this, the selection process is draconian. Only one image will chosen, and sometimes none, for as Garcin philosophically acknowledges, sometimes an ideas doesn’t work. Still, at the rate of ten to fifteen photographs a year he has, over the last decade, built up quite an impressive corpus of over three hundred pictures.

~ from Gilbert Garcin website

2001, Marseille, France

Gilbert Garcin, Changer le monde (Change the World)

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Marseille-France/101870663188020?ref=stream



Gilbert Garcin, La vie d'artiste (An Artist Life)




Gilbert Garcin, La différence (The Difference)


Gilbert Garcin, Le choix décisif (The Decisive Choice)





Gilbert Garcin, La bonne volonté (Willingness)




Gilbert Garcin, La mécanique des couples (The Couple Mechanism)


Aller-simple (One Way)





Gilbert Garcin, Connaître ses limite (Knowing One's Limits)


Gilbert Garcin, Courir après le temps (Chasing After Time)





Gilbert Garcin, Des cœurs de marbre (Marble Heart)


Gilbert Garcin, La crainte de l’ignorance (Fear of Ignorance)





Gilbert Garcin, La persévérance (Perseverance)


Gilbert Garcin, La rupture (The rupture)





Gilbert Garcin, La vie est belle (Life Is Beautiful)


Gilbert Garcin, La ville (The City)





Gilbert Garcin, L'avenir n'est plus ce qu'il était (The Future Is not What It Was)


Gilbert Garcin, Le dessous des choses (The Hidden Side of Things)





Gilbert Garcin, Le chien d'Elliott (d'après Elliott Erwitt) (Elliott’s Dog (after Elliott Erwitt))




Gilbert Garcin, Le plus court chemin (The Shortest Path)




Gilbert Garcin, Le Ying et le Yang (ou les Malevitch choisissent un tapis) (Ying or Yang or Malevitch Choosing a Carpet)




Gilbert Garcin, L'heure exquise (Exquisite Hour)




Gilbert Garcin, Un autre jour (D'après Edward Hopper) (Another Day after Edward Hopper)

The other day Cristina Senatore sent me this link to watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQNPTQkmu8g

The video was actually very nice and I liked mr. Gilbert Garcin very much. Then, browsing around, I've found a lot of nice things about him.

Here is an article where you get to read his incredible story: http://alafoto.com/?p=6373

And here is a selected collection of his images: http://www.bulgergallery.com/dynamic/fr_artist.asp…

And here is his website: http://www.gilbert-garcin.com/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQNPTQkmu8g



http://alafoto.com/?p=6373

http://www.bulgergallery.com/dynamic/fr_artist.asp?ArtistID=108



http://www.gilbert-garcin.com/



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