David-Alexandre Guéniot, O Livro da Patrícia

O Livro da Patrícia

David-Alexandre Guéniot

Publisher
GHOST Editions
Year
2022
ISBN
978-989-54422-6-3
Specifications
130 × 180 mm
304 pages
Offset
Colour
Edition of 500 copies in Portuguese and 600 in French
Portuguese / French
Pictures by various authors
Design: Léo Favier
The French version, Le Livre de Patrícia, is a co-edition with Éditions LOCO, Paris, ISBN 978-284-31407-6-1
Second edition January 2023, third edition May 2025
Shortlisted, PHotoEspaña 2023 Best Photography Book of the Year, creation category

When the photographer Patrícia Almeida died in November 2017 she left unfinished a project for a volume on her "personal history of photography". Months earlier she had begun gathering documents: the examples she gave her students, obsolete second-hand manuals, her own earliest frames. On the day of her death the undertaker asked for a portrait for the wake. Which one to choose? Which person to show? How do you sum up, reduce and concentrate a person into a single picture? This work recounts the search for that impossible likeness and revisits the unfinished project, setting the making of pictures against the making of identities, of recollections and of ghosts.

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