Fragments of time

I saw the American landscape cluttered with ruins that I wanted to save. Wright Morris A figure of American literature, Wright Morris (1910-1998) traveled the Great Plains of the Midwest during the 1930s. The rural world and its figures allegorical themes inspire most of his novels: his characters from the great West American, their places of life, their daily life will be embodied, from 1939, in so-called "photo-text" works. Attributing equal value between image and text, Morris imagines works mixing literature and photography, one dialoguing with the other in the same evocative power. In parallel From his photographic work, he leads a work of critical writing very pushed about his tool. It is through numerous articles and interviews that Wright Morris theorizes photography and its practices. Published for the first time in French in the TXT collection from Éditions Xavier Barral, this work brings together the photographer's writings and provides new reading angles of contemporary photography. To illustrate the concepts developed in the work, numerous photographs accompany the texts: images of Morris but also other pioneering or emblematic photos themes developed. This book offers texts that are little-known in France but are fundamental in history. of photography, and is part of the collection of text books developed in parallel with photography books.