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Freger, Charles (Photographer) & Mouchel, Didier (Contributor) : Donneur: Portraits Photographiques Et Uniformes

Arcelor Packaging International, Nantes, France, 2002

ISBN 2913179053

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 75 pages. Collection of color portrait-photographs. One of the most remarkable titles in the iconic series of "Portraits Photographiques et Uniformes". The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only whose limitation is not stated. Commissioned by Arcelor Packaging International, the book was not sold commercially. It is Charles Freger's rarest title. A brilliant production by Charles Freger: Regular-sized volume format. Pristine-white softcovers, as issued. Photographs by Charles Freger. Text by Didier Mouchel. Pictorial steel metal case. The latter is uniquely appropriate: The steel metal can (which Arcelor makes) is the most efficient, economical, and safest way to pack and deliver food and beverage products worldwide. Steel packaging is also environmentally-friendly and recyclable. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Nantes, France to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover, as issued. Presents Charles Freger's "Donneur: Portraits Photographiques et Uniformes". Commissioned portraits of middle-aged men and women (the average age is 50) who work for Arcelor Packaging International. As such, they are the older - and more prosperous - counterparts of the young workers Freger has photographed extensively. More important, they embody the worker as someone who identifies with a specific commercial enterprise in a specific place (rather than say, a national labor union or a Worker's Movement). The work of a brilliant portrait-photographer whose only possible equal is Rineke Dijkstra, the Freger Style is documentary PLUS portrait. His antecedent is August Sander, with an opposite twist: His portraits present not a national community (as Sander does) but the individuals who give a specific community its face and form. As such, his work is neither purely documentary or sociological. His emphasis on individual particularity repudiates nationalism as well as "globalization" and "the human family", the most cherished ideas of humanist-photojournalists (and corporations), as nothing more and nothing less than a myth. Instead, he suggests, human beings choose, almost innately, to identify with a much smaller community than the nation or the UN. With every seemingly exotic portrait, Freger poses the same provocative and compelling questions: Why do I choose to belong to a tribe? Why do I adhere to its rules? Why do I believe in the necessity of social cohesion? Why do I express myself through others? Freger reminds us that so-called personal identity is inconceivable without the notion of belonging to a community; ethnic and sexual minorities understand this instinctively better than anyone else. An absolute "must-have" title for Charles Freger collectors. An absolute "must-have" title for Charles Freger collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed black pen-marker on the steel-metal case itself by Charles Freger. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER CHARLES FREGER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 2913179053.

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