Edition
Waves
Philippe Dannic has found his anchor point in Belle-Ile-en-Mer. It’s there that he has developed his love affair with the ocean. It’s there, on the coastlines that he selects depending on the movement of the tides and the sea swell, that he is faced with the immensity that fascinates him. Not a day goes by without him going to commune with the sea, which he has a need to observe, to inhale. To feel, in all the senses of the word. Nothing makes him give up these encounters, neither the lashing rain nor the blustering winds. From the rocky coast, bursting with feelings and emotions, he establishes a passionate interaction with the waves and the sea spray. The movement of the Atlantic Ocean is as varied as it is incessant.
The colours of the sea and its shades embellish daily celebrations, sometimes calm, sometimes thrilling. Depending on the weather or the time of day, the light invigorates the experience. It shimmers, it darkens, it helps or complicates the photographers quest. It brushes the surface of the water with evanescent flashes.
A few artists, like François Puyplat, Kevin Griffin, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Clifford Ross, Syoin Kajii, have photographed marine landscapes, the undulating waves and foaming whitecaps, flat horizons without limit. Dannic differentiates himself from them by his consistency, his perseverance, and above all his passionate communion with the sea.
“I love this wild noise where infinity begins” wrote Victor Hugo in The Four Winds of the Spirit. Like the poet, Dannic is a mystic of this sea, who never ceases to stimulate his wonderment until he produces, combining intuition and obsession, a successful photographic achievement.
Pierre Borhan
Library Hermès - 17 rue de sèvres Paris 75006
Library du bon marché - 24 rue de sèvres Paris 75007
Library Artcurial - 61 av montaigne Paris 75008
Parution: July 2017
EAN: 978-2953201482
ISBN: 2953201483
Description: 128 pages - 108 photographies (30cm x 26cm) à l'Italienne
Price : 49€
Belle-Île sincère
In 2010 I started taking pictures of more than two thousand eight hundred people from Belle Ile. I took thepictures in front of a simple black background, they could wear the ou>
it of their choice. I had called theopera?on “sincere portraits”. Later on the portraits were printed on plas?c sheets and exhibited on severaloccasions on our walls.
Today, with this book, I want to take the experiment a bit further. I would like to give fourty people fromBelle Ile a chance to explain, in a few words, what it meant to them to choose to live on the island of BelleIle. Throughout the year of 2016 I conducted interviews. I did not try to be exhaus?ve, only to reflect asfaithfully as possible the variety of people that live on the island: farmers, fishermen, priests, craJmen,shopkeepers, restaurant owners, etc.
This is not either a list of prize winners, many other endearing personali?es would have diserved to appearin these pages, and for those who do appear, I some?mes had to insist before they accepted making me thehonor of accep?ng to par?cipate.
Consequently, I am very thankful to those who trusted me and showed enthusiasm for this project andwere pleased to work with my camera or the voice recorder.
Phillipe Dannic
Editions Dannic
Parution 2017
Description: 132 pages (25,5cmx18cm) à l'Italienne
PAO: Photext - Vannes
Printer: Pollina
ISBN 978 2953201499
Belle Ile en Mer Facing Time
It’s been years now that on each of the four seasons, I’ve lived on Belle-Ile and photographed the island on its every aspect,in its excessiveness and in its smallest details.
These pictures try to recall my very emotions in front of the unique nature and men living there.
Editions Philippe Dannic
Description: 127 pages (23,5x30cm)
PAO: Photext - Vannes
Printer: Kapp graphic Evreux
ISBN: 976-2-9532014-2 0
The Sea
Even when he is working on a far fetched project, the frenchman Philippe Dannic doesn’t spend a day withoutreaching to the sea, in his need to contemplate, hum and feel it, on all the acceptions of the word.
It really is a question of encounter and dialogue between him and the ocean, or even a notion close to a rare kind of wedding,cool at times and furious at others. Colour is another attendant to this union as well as light, moving with the climate changes,the hours running, softening or sharpening their daily meetings.
« I love the wild noise where the infinite starts », wrote Victor Hugo in his Four Winds of the Mind.Alike him, Philippe Dannic is a mystic of the ocean who cannot stop tonifying the landscapes of his affections.
Pierre Borhan
Autor: Pierre Borhan
Editor: Arthaud, Paris
Collection: Flammarion
Description: 298 pages (11.3 x 1.8 x 10.9 inches)
EAN13: 978-2080300638
Exhibit
history
- January 2019 - June 2019: Hermès internal exhibition - Pantin, Paris
- From 9 august until 26 august 2018: Gallery Valérie Gautier - Le Palais Belle ile en mer
- From 17 June until 17 september 2017: Collective exhibit "SeaViews" at the Rijksmuseum museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- From 3 september until 29 september 2014: Yacht club de france - Paris
- 2013/14: Exposition siège banque Crédit mutuel de Bretagne Brest France
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2011/12:
Exposition collective, Musée National de la Marine, Paris, France.
La photographie "Colère aux Poulains" primée. - 2011: Galerie Aroa « En vagues », Neuilly sur Seine, France
- 2011: Cercle National des Armées, Paris, France.
- 2009/10: Exposition collective, L’art des mar, Fondation Forum Tarragone, Espagne
- 2009/10: Galerie du Phare, Sauzon, Belle Ile en mer, France.
- 2009: Maison de la Bretagne, Paris, France.
- 2009: Chateau de Chateaugiron, France.
- 2008:Citadelle Vauban, Belle Ile en mer, France.
- 2006: Atelier de la miroiterie, « D’Iles en Iles », Paris , France.
- 2005: « D’Iles en Iles », Loix en Ré, France.
Photographic Print
Every picture on this site is issued on a limited print numbered and signed by the author.
Printed with ink jet on Hahnemüle 300g/m2, 100% cotton paper.
An authenticity cerificate « art trust » is delivered with each print.
Number of print by serie
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2 formats
- 10 issues 40*60 size
- 5 issues 80*120 size
