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Actions		Mon quartier vu de ma fenêtre Remove from selection Add to selection Object number1979.0131 TitleMon quartier vu de ma fenêtre Creator Didier Bay (vervaardiger)‎, Yellow Now (uitgever)‎ DescriptionIn the wake of May 1968, Didier Bay began documenting the daily life of return-to-order Paris such as it was visible through a telephoto lens that he positioned in the window of his Latin Quarter apartment. Nine years later, he published 'Mon quartier vu de ma fenêtre' which presents sequences of small black-and-white photographs of local residents in their homes and in the street accompanied by type-written explanatory narratives. At a time when sociologists were restructuring the landscape and politics of post-World War II France, Bay considered himself a “sociological” artist. Yet, unlike sociology engineered for technocracy, Bay’s sociology did not quantify in order to categorize. Instead, the distant and multiply fragmenting views of his neighbors expressed a profound suspicion that it is impossible to fix social knowledge due to the insularity of the private individuals who compose a society. Production date 1977 Production period20e eeuw Object namekunstenaarsboeken Object categorykunstenaarsboeken Materialdrukpapier, drukinkt Techniqueoffsetdrukken Dimensions hoogte: 20 cm pagina-aantal: 264

Object number1979.0131

TitleMon quartier vu de ma fenêtre

Creator Didier Bay (vervaardiger)‎, Yellow Now (uitgever)‎

DescriptionIn the wake of May 1968, Didier Bay began documenting the daily life of return-to-order Paris such as it was visible through a telephoto lens that he positioned in the window of his Latin Quarter apartment. Nine years later, he published 'Mon quartier vu de ma fenêtre' which presents sequences of small black-and-white photographs of local residents in their homes and in the street accompanied by type-written explanatory narratives. At a time when sociologists were restructuring the landscape and politics of post-World War II France, Bay considered himself a “sociological” artist. Yet, unlike sociology engineered for technocracy, Bay’s sociology did not quantify in order to categorize. Instead, the distant and multiply fragmenting views of his neighbors expressed a profound suspicion that it is impossible to fix social knowledge due to the insularity of the private individuals who compose a society.

Production date 1977

Production period20e eeuw

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Techniqueoffsetdrukken

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