ENTER EXIT BY PIERRE CROCQUET DE ROSEMOND (SIGNED)

INSCRIBED & SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER, Hatje Cantz publishers, 2007, hardcover, landscape format, full page b&w plates, text in English/German/French, 118 pages, 30.6 cms x 24.5 cms, no marks, condition; very good.

In "Enter Exit",  Pierre Crocquet de Rosemond has recorded the daily life of a rural community. His black-and-white images are largely portraits of individuals, both single and grouped, but always posed and portrayed existentially rather than culturally, so that their common qualities are emphasized over and above their differences. These individuals are mostly photographed facing the camera in direct dialogue, although some images depict people otherwise engaged in various labors; occasionally a flash of humor will jolt the sobriety of the scene. To my mind the images are Ballenesque (after the photographer Roger Ballen)..