BF

BERNARD FAUCON

BERNARD FAUCON

READ

TRUE FICTIONS

Staged photography was the swansong of photography, the last stage before the rein of the pure, media image. A moment when we still believed enough in the truth of photography to offer ourselves the luxury of a real-life fiction.

 

Photography is very little. The most beautiful photo in the world is practically nothing. But this practically nothing is resilient, it sweeps into everything, like life.

 

How to give up on this obvious heat and light that lit and warmed this once, just this once…?

 

There’s not a single day of my life I’d like to experience again, they have all been traversed, however furtively, by a wave of dread.

And my headlong rush is followed by nostalgia, as if something had really been valuable… What should one conclude from this?