Lucidite / Lucidity (English, Ansus, French, Paperback)

This is an important and lavishly illustrated reference on photography, media arts, contemporary arts, and visual arts. This lavishly illustrated book, the official publication of "Le Mois de la Photo a Montreal 2011", introduces the 25 artists whose works are exhibited in this international biennale of contemporary photography, alongside previously unpublished essays by art historians, theorists, and philosophers, who shed light on the relationships between lens-based art and lucidity. The featured artists have found many ways of turning their cameras on themselves to conceive of photography and related practices as an introspective process, an opportunity for meditation, a mode of consciousness, even a means of revealing the unconscious. At a time when misery in the world is multiplying, the movement towards a form of photography seeking to reveal invisible conflicts within ourselves seems an imperative.