https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/e2f15373056204031e05007d356c2795.jpeg 0656928c3241637dffd62d930c4bad8b https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/33689f547ab19e0414f28c278e3d1fee.jpeg 68827d7fda3438b0d2b3c418ea4ead52 https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/fe739c8f4bf2339a9d8a0069b3bfa5ce.jpeg 93cf867d038f849dd85063225c4183f6 https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/472800b02748aaf3dacc6e7c7134b4b5.jpeg 7b3cfa5051303d0ea92b118011c5a12d https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/c7a6cc1e8a56b71bdc7a3ccc2eab0484.jpeg 8a9bd80085de3fefdc2848f780030cd8 https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/7623754f579886b1588f964f09d292f9.jpeg 50ffc86a183016b75448bf105cd133f6 https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/d22606299a15f16f33d07ae3d91c9e88.jpeg 91e8255c10f3c6ed9f1e3901a87bf253 https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/91db4766bab1a626459406053e5bc4f8.jpeg 95013364f1b1b6b39ddc77e411fdc285 https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/07ba868bbb8e4b504933210a8c3cf050.jpeg 42fa76014c4e1ff9e6029c472ed71f5d https://www.photobookcafe-archive.co.uk/files/original/cdf9eedf2b4b33271482bd69df1921b2.jpeg e507fc0ee4ccf82c4bacd6e2aa96f53d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Natural Landscape Book Photo Book Dimensions Dimensions of object in cm 24,30,5 Number of Pages Number of Pages 96 Number of images Number of images 51 Edition Size Edition Size 300 Place of Publication Place of Publication Paris / France Designer Designer Joanna Starck Printer Printer SYL ISBN ISBN 978-2-9595889-0-7 Website Website alexandresilberman.com URL Link to project URL Link to project https://www.alexandresilberman.com/shop/ Where to buy Where to buy Website of photographer I’m in speech with the Photographers Gallery Bookshop to distribute there. Bookshop in Paris ( Yvon Lambert, Ofr, Polka, etc) Arcana in Los Angeles Tsutaya Daikanyama Links to reviews Links to reviews https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/nov/06/taylor-wessing-prize-diane-alexandre-silberman https://www.c41magazine.com/nature-alexandre-silbermans-first-monograph/ https://www.9lives-magazine.com/115223/2025/06/17/alexandre-silberman-une-fable-urbaine-au-coeur-de-la-courneuve/ https://culturalee.art/innovators-alexandre-silberman/ https://www.source.ie/archive/issue118/is118contents.php https://loeildelaphotographie.com/fr/?p=160289507 https://fisheyemagazine.fr/evenement/alexandre-silberman-nature/ Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource NATURE 1828.NLAND.SILBERMAN Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Alexandre Silberman Description An account of the resource «  Every lingering remnant in adults’ memory of the atmosphere of enchanted forests, every last vestige in them of belief in miracles, every breath of theirs which still inhales a perfume of fairytales reveals itself beneath the wretched, crazed disguise of these feebly invented landscapes » Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant Here, not far from Paris, were marshes, which became a vegetable plain of one of the largest agricultural territories in Europe. Between 1952 and 1972, gypsies from Andalusia settled here, as well as Roma from Eastern Europe, Portuguese, Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians, Yugoslavians, and a few French families, in insalubrious conditions, in what was known as the Campa slum. Now, one seems to feel there this « feeling of nature » dear to the surrealists, and that the peasant of Aragon experienced when he walked through the park of Buttes-Chaumont, north of the concomitant capital. Like the latter, the Parc de La Courneuve was invented and built from scratch.
Spread over five communes, it imposes its opulent landscape on the rough and dry of the Paris suburbs.
Vast plains, belvederes, mounts and pyramids: everything is aimed at re-appropriating a perspective free from the housing blocks that streak the viewer’s eyes just a few steps away, and which here can only be discerned from above, rendered minuscule by the strength of the mineral vantage points. If there is NATURE, it is in a double language game: first, the one fenced, arranged, structured, by the landscapers and then reinterpreted by the occupants. Here, dense vegetation and stone sculptures, dark woods and clear lines, modern practices and the primitive power of trees are confronted and mixed. Through the constitutive duality of the park, the inner strength of the beings who cross it is revealed, their nature in a second sense. An enclosed space, but a space of freedom, it creates its autonomy and its aesthetic independence at the same time by its porosity – the entrance is free – and its opacity. In the silence of the place, contemporaneity sinks into this hybrid space as into an original reverse, creating an asynchronous picture where reality becomes fable. And then, as in the words of Aragon, “reflect faithfully the vast sentimental regions where the city dwellers wild dreams stir”. Subject The topic of the resource 120 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Hard Cover Cover on screen-printed black Wicotex Brillanta canvas Book printed on Fedrigoni Symbol Tatami Ivory 135gsm & Curious Transluscent Clear 100gsm papers Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2024 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Self-Published analog black and white bw documentary france medium format Nature Paris portrait Surealism