Eric Rondepierre: Galerie Michele Chomette. (Paris).(Brief Article)

Like many photographers, Eric Rondepierre travels to find his images. And yet he is not a reporter--and hardly even a photographer in the traditional sense of the term. His journeys of exploration, the first step in his creative process, are forays into the deepest nooks and crannies of film libraries--in Washington, Montreal, Lausanne, Bologna.

For months on end, eight hours a day, he holes up in the most obscure theaters, eyes riveted to worn-out or decomposing film, looking at loops corroded by time or poor storage conditions. A sort of miner, Rondepierre tries to extract from ...

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