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Relié, 256 pages
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Digital
Diaries
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Amazon.fr
Comment parvenir à rendre compte de son intimité, de ses pulsions, de
ses émotions ? Natacha Merrit a résolu cette question épineuse en
prenant le parti d'enregistrer sa vie sexuelle sur pellicule. Digital
Diaries est donc un journal sexuel, le sien. La photographe ne
recherche ni la photographie d'art, ni la provocation. Cette somme
d'autoportraits érotiques illustre autant de rencontres et d'états
qu'elle a souhaité explorer. D'aucuns parleront de voyeurisme, d'autres
d'une forme d'introspection peu banale. Travaillant exclusivement sur sa
vie sexuelle, Natacha Merrit crée les images qu'elle veut donner de sa
propre personnalité. Un travail photographique hors du commun qui, s'il
avait existé à une autre époque, se serait sans nul doute attiré les
foudres de la censure. À l'heure actuelle, il apparaît plus volontiers
comme une performance originale. À noter que les textes, certes rares,
sont uniquement en anglais. --Sandrine Fillipetti
Eric Kroll
"Fresh sin: Her photos reek of sex."
Book Description
Anyone who has seen her Digital Diaries has intimate knowledge of Natacha
Merritt. And of her friends, male and female, and her acquaintances as
well. But Merritt's favourite motif is herself: she poses almost every
minute of the day for her cam-era, taking photographs of herself in bed,
in the shower, having sex with her friend, masturbating with and without
accessories, from every imaginable angle and with the camera usually at
arm's length. Merritt, born 1977, works with a digital camera, the
Polaroid of the 90s, breaking down the most intimate details into
universally accessible bits of information. Eric Kroll came across Natacha
Merritt by chance in the internet, where she had put several of her
photographs. This was something that left the tradition of classical
pin-up and fetish photography, in which Kroll himself works, far behind
it. Face to face with Merritt's photographs one can reflect on intimacy
and publicity in the digital age, on narcissism even, or on radical
self-exploration with the help of the camera. But this all sounds better
as Natacha Merritt herself once put it: in her view, she has found a new
mode of masturbating her way into the next millennium. |
