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Chevaleresque | This year 2012, Rip Hopkins chose not to photograph horses, but to make visible the symbolic power of the horse on man and the woman of today.
This book is supported by: the City of Maisons-Laffitte, National Monuments, the Society of Friends of the Château de Maisons, the Yvelines General Council. An exhibition is held at the Château de Maisons-Laffitte from July 4 to October 26, 2012, event organized by the Centre of National Monuments. |
Chevaleresque
Through this series of portraits, Rip Hopkins reveals how the inhabitants of Maisons-Laffitte, a city historically connected with horses, collect and appropriate the horse in their imagination. Northwest of Paris, bordering the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, is a city haunted by the presence of horses since the late eighteenth century. The racecourse has the longest straight line in Europe. Men and horses live together. Trails are planned to travel on horseback. The mounted animal always has priority. An anachronistic castle recalls earlier times to the modern industrial, where the horse was the closest ally of man. His legendary monumental stables have now disappeared. Castle also houses - thus it is called - spends annually a command to a photographer to represent the horse in its walls. Presence of paper instead of living, somehow. In all fields of contemporary creation, the theme of the horse seems to have been deserted when he was a mythological being and ultimate source of countless fabulous stories. Is its symbolic power. Coproducer : Ville de Maisons-Laffitte, les Monuments nationaux, la société des amis du château de Maisons, le Conseil Général des Yvelines. Released : July, 03rd 2012 Collection : Hors Collection
French ISBN 13 : 978-2-35046-256-1 Format : 220 x 220 72 pages Paperback and hardback cover toilée 33 photos colors 25 € |
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