Versailles, Sceaux et Saint-Cloud vus par Eugène Atget et Daniel Quesney avec un écart de temps de 70 à 95 ans.
Daniel Quesney a repris rigoureusement les revues d’images anciennes réalisées par Atget au début du XXe siècle. Les images sont reconduites et nous amènent à des interrogations multiples. Deux textes éclairent le processus de reconduction photographique et de restauration des jardins ; textes de Aurélie Kaminski, Christophe Pourtois, Daniel Quesney et Alexandre Vanautgaerden, photos n.b.
The photographs presented here are part of a project series by Daniel Quesney focused on reshooting vintage pictures taken by Atget at the beginning of the twentieth century. If Daniel Quesney obtained a radically different result despite all the reshooting constraints, it was due to the fact that not only had the landscapes changed over time but he was also imperceptibly recreating a different world.
. . . I wanted to work from vintage photographs yet avoid nostalgic effects and overly pronounced changes in the landscape. As part of the national heritage, these sites designed by Le Nôtre have been pretty well preserved. The stability of the photographed landscapes is what interested me at first, because I wanted the result to concern as much photography as landscape.
