Dominique Issermann – Laetitia Casta
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
From January 18th 2012 to March 25th 2012
During three days, Dominique Issermann has photographed Laetitia Casta in thermal baths built by the architect Peter Zumthor in Switzerland. Dominique Issermann “drags Laeticia in the choreography of a new book, a wonderful woman, naked, who stands in the generous and elusive perspective of a perfect building.” It is a pas de deux, a photographic choreography.
This is also Dominique Issermann’s last silver film work to savor through these 33 prints. The 33 photographs are rolled and unrolled like the construction of one unique image of the archetypal Laeticia Casta, in her free and supreme nudity.
You can feel Dominique Issermann holding her breath to seize the best of Laetitia moving in the building and the one of the architect Peter Zumthor breathing through the walls, the stairs, the baths, the corridors.
Private and sensual.
Dominique Issermann – Laetitia Casta
Until March 25th 2012
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
5 rue de Fourcy
75004 Paris
Laetitia Casta ©Dominique Issermann
Laetitia Casta ©Dominique Issermann