Böcker av Thomas Mailaender

This year, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie gives a Carte Blanche to multimedia artist Thomas Mailaender, dedicating to him his first major retrospective in Paris. The artist, who aims to push the boundaries of photographic experimentation by exploring a wide variety of media, will occupy the two floors of the galleries of the Parisian institution.To continue this immersive and interactive exhibition, a book titled Les Belles Images, published by RVB BOOKS, presents all the artist''s works featured at the MEP and takes us behind the scenes of his studio. The book includes texts by Simon Baker and Luce Lebart.

The eighth instalment in the series of albums by Thomas Mailaender devoted to amateur practices identified on the Web, Time Travellers brings together a set of images posted online showing strangers striking a pose in front of iconic paintings. Selected for their resemblance (sometimes a bit far-fetched), the models reenact the poses seen in the paintings and offer us a new way to look at the history of art.