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At the heart of Blacktop Memento is Kevin Couliau’s obsession with playground basketball and its imprint on urban landscapes.Through an archaeological exploration, the French photographer traces with Blacktop Memento an original cartography of asperities, wrinkles, and color spectra: memories sculpted by the encounters between man and matter. Blacktop Memento is an independently published book retracing 10 years of photographic… Read more
At the heart of Blacktop Memento is Kevin Couliau’s obsession with playground basketball and its imprint on urban landscapes.Through an archaeological exploration, the French photographer traces with Blacktop Memento an original cartography of asperities, wrinkles, and color spectra: memories sculpted by the encounters between man and matter.
Blacktop Memento is an independently published book retracing 10 years of photographic archives. Couliau’s first book, entirely printed and fashioned in French workshops using traditional binding techniques, showcases an unprecedented selection of stills produced from his personal archives, a series of 76 playground close-ups collected worldwide for over a decade.
76 photos Preface by Kevin Couliau Foreword by Jesse Washington 160 pages + a 44 pages insert explaining the printing process Published by Asphalt Chronicles & Common Practice Edition of 1,000
ISBN 978-2-9578485-0-8
Blacktop Memento, fragments of erosion
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