Portraits of Writers: A Photographer’s Experience

Abstract

The article reveals the work of a stage-photographer whose eye is laden with pictorial references. A brief look back at “posture” in the literary field, in our time of social networks; two testimonies from women authors who lent themselves to this game of photographic staging and image building around the images in the photographer’s mind. Alice Piemme practices photography as one practises a language other than one’s own, looking for ways of saying something in a different manner. Her work is at the intersection of theatre and painting, on the verge of the frame. Just where we look at the stage, where the performance is revealed. She speaks of the revisited image, first that of the surrealists, then of a gaze enhanced by memory that is enriched by all its visual history. Her photographic writing ends with the montage of a gynecological midwife who combines the multiplication of identity and that of rewriting.