Books
Fnac Perpignan, the official Visa pour l'Image Perpignan Festival bookshop
During the international photojournalism festival, Fnac Perpignan opens a bookshop at the main exhibition venue (Couvent des Minimes, rue Rabelais), featuring a selection of photography books and signings by leading photographers .
The bookshop will be open from August 28 to September 5, from 10am to 8pm, and from September 6 to 11, from 11am to 8pm.
www.fnac.com/perpignan
Catalogue
Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan, first held in 1989, will be holding the 22nd Festival this year, and will be issuing a third catalogue (published by Snoeck). Since 1989, Visa pour l'Image has highlighted the need for work by photojournalists to provide accurate visual news reports. The photos in the catalogue are from current news reports and archive stories. They tell of ethnic conflict and wars, of people and events not recorded in history; they tell of nature and the environment, of different communities, different religions, of everyday news, and of the scourges of the modern world.
Catalogue on sale throughout the Festival at the Couvent des Minimes (August 28, 2010 - September 12, 2010
On sale in all good bookshops, all year round.
On line orders: http://www.ombres-blanches.fr/
A small number of 2008 & 2009 catalogues are still available (25 euros). Please contact Delphine Lelu : d.lelu@wanadoo.fr
20 YEARS – Limited Edition Collection
20+2: 20 monographs, 2 agencies
Special edition to mark the 20th anniversary of Visa pour l’Image, published by CDP. A collection of 20 monographs, each with approximately 50 photos. Limited edition of 500. Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Ian Berry, Alexandra Boulat, Paula Bronstein, Enrico Dagnino, Marie Dorigny, Cédric Gerbehaye, Stanley Greene, Guillaume Herbaut, Yuri Kozyrev, Jean-Pierre Laffont, Pascal Maitre, Nick Nichols, Noel Quidu, Patrick Robert, Brent Stirton, Tom Stoddart, Laurent Van der Stockt, Munem Wasif, Alfred Yaghobzadeh.
Plus two agency volumes: one marking the 30th anniversary of COSMOS, and one for the 70th anniversary of Roger-Viollet.
Available as a boxed set or as individual volumes (28 euros per volume).
Online orders: http://boutique.e-center.fr
Symposium Proceedings
The symposium was launched in 2002 by Jean Lelièvre who had the idea of organizing a panel discussion/forum with guest speakers, including photojournalists, philosophers, sociologists, academics, researchers, and historians, both French and international, i.e. a wide range of panelists interested in current affairs and pictures, but approaching news and these questions from very different angles.
The discussion has regularly produced statements not generally heard amongst professional photographers, but that’s the purpose of the exercise!
“Have we reached a crisis point in communication, a crisis with the symbols we produce, and in a broader sense, in conveying and grasping meaning in today’s increasingly commoditized world?” This question captures the essence of the debate over the years.
The proceedings of the symposium (in eight booklets) contain the full text of the debates since 2002. They are on sale throughout the Festival, at the Couvent des Minimes, from August 28 to September 12, 2010, (10 euros per volume).
Outside festival dates, e-mail orders to: d.lelu@wanadoo.fr.
Symposium proceedings available in French only.