A revised and enlarged version of the first title Thierry Girard published in 1982, an early work in which he claimed the influence of his glorious elders — Lee Friedlander, Tony Ray-Jones and, first among them, Robert Frank — and which belongs to a decisive moment for the medium in France. Revisiting the Far-Westhoek archive as part of a retrospective survey of his whole output imposed a new and broader selection.

“In my opinion, Far-Westhoek represents both the prevalence of a complex artistic culture and the brilliant success of its overcoming. […] It is therefore this territory of the Westhoek, the western extremity of the region, that is the object of an assumption characterised by a mixture of anxiety and false banality, of laborious harshness and popular truculence, a context around which powerful natural forces prowl: the wind, the sea, the dunes.” — Arnaud Claass

The volume is also a tribute, in its allusions and its graphic quotations, to the cult first edition of Robert Frank's The Americans (Delpire, 1958).