Monday, March 10, 2008

Keith Donovan: Collage Master















Keith Donovan is a long-time collage artist with a taste for the oblique. The Canadian who moved to Switzerland some 30 years ago (and Paris about 10 years ago), has long been a fan of de Kooning, but he's also addicted to Disney and type and packaging material. His process is ultimately hand-made, but getting there Donovan has begun to employ a variety of machines in the process of "building" his canvases. He still uses a light projector to beam images across his studio onto specially produced canvases; more recently he's been scanning images and distorting them, printing then and inserting them into his projector. The addition of digital manipulation has moved his work to the Old Masters (Breughel among them) and some other more modern masters (Walt Disney) to exceptional effects.

Keith has been making art for decades and the venture into a slightly more digital realm has permitted him to work with a variety of collaborators. A year ago he produced a series of pillows in Lyon, France during a residency at URDLA, Centre Internationale de l’Estampe using digital collages to print on canvas. His series, The Seven Deadly Sins (after Breughel) were a hit. He is now reworking a range of Old Masters in his signature collage style in his studio in Le Jouhet, France.

He is currently working towards an exhibition in Geneva, Switzerland at Galerie Foex, his long-time European dealer. (I first exhibited with Keith in 1999 at galerie eof, Paris, along with Caterina Verde in a show called "New Zoo." We also exhibited in Antwerp at Factor 44, along with the late, great artist (and friend), Tony Morgan.

Donovan is currently stretching canvases and using his scanner and camera more than ever. Take a look at more of Keith Donovan's new work here.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

The Wormton Cat : Bob Blackman

Two new one-page books from UK artist and writer, Bob Blackman. Here are The Soul Transference & Necromancer's Trade Association and The Wormton Cat. Download the PDFs and then print them out at your home, A4 size.

Bob Blackman writes about the One Page Books: "I was looking for a promotional item for my media pack and reckon One Page Books are a brilliant way of introducing people to print-on-demand and self-publishing.

"I've designed them so they match the look of my novels. There's An Introductory One Page Book to the Self-Regulating, Incorporeal Professional Body, The Soul Transference and Necromancer's Trade Association, which supports The Horsepower Whisperer, and The Wormton Cat, which serves as a taster for The Wormton Lamb. Each novel and its associated One Page Book features the same colour co-ordinated go faster stripe."

The one-page book is one of the most elegant and economical ways to produce an eight page book, in A4 or A3 sizes (or US letter and larger sizes), by simple folding and a single cut.  Perfect for artists, boutiques, and any sort of promotional efforts, a single one-sided print is all you need to create a fantastic piece for whatever you're doing – recipe books, agendas, product descriptions, catalogs, short stories, limited editions.  Get in touch if you're interested in producing your own One Page Book with Lalande Digital Art Press Paris.

Click here to download Blackman's two books.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Cupid et Psyche : St Valentin

Vous cherchez un cadeau extraordinaire pour votre amant pour St Valentin? Porquoi pas un "Face Card," une carte de visite comme notre Cupid et Psyche. Porquoi pas vous deux sur la même carte? Facile, rapide: envoyez nous une image (.jpg), et vos details. Contactez: LALANDE DIGITAL PRESS PARIS pour votre Face Carte d'Amour! 1000 Cartes, quadri couleur, seulement 90 euros.

Looking for a digital printer in Paris? That's us : We speak French and English and we make pretty much anything that can be printed. Fast, reliable, expertly done, Lalande works with clients from all over Paris and the world. LALANDE DIGITAL PRESS PARIS ... YOUR ENGLISH LANGUAGE PRINTER IN PARIS.

Monday, February 11, 2008

St. Valentin Par Joanna Walsh

La Carte de Rencontre est de retour avec l'oeuvre de Joanna Walsh. La carte, à gauche a été crée speciale pour St. Valentin.  Regarder à Paris bientôt pour cette édition limitée (1000 cartes seulement).

"Ce dessin est une hommage à la fille d’une amie. Elle est jeune Musulman qui porte le deuil. Cependant, elle bosse dans une boutique de la mode et elle est elle-même tres à la mode. Sous son hijab, elle porte des vetements qui vraiment couvrent son corps mais qui sont tres moulant et sexy. Elle me fait penser a un poème de Baudelaire avec une description d’une belle femme ‘en deuil’ (pour le morte de quelqu’un). Je voulais le refaire a neuf donc réexaminer la poème comme nos idées de la beauté et de deuil." – Joanna Walsh

This drawing is an homage to the daughter of a friend," explains Joanna. "She is a young Muslim and wears the veil. However, she works in a fashion boutique and is very stylish. Under her hijab, she wears clothes which completely cover her body but are tight and sexy. She made me think of the poem by Baudelaire with the description of a beautiful woman ‘in a veil’ (i.e., in mourning). I wanted to take a fresh look at the poem as well as ideas about beauty and the hijab."

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris is happy to work with Joanna and also happy to produce your own carte de rencontre, or Valentine's Day or other cards for you.

Visitez Joanna Walsh – artiste et écrivain– et ses dessins sur BADAUDE. Actuellement, elle écrit un livre sur Paris.

Visit Joanna Walsh – artist and writer– and see more of her work on BADAUDE.  Joanna produces incredibly detailed scenes of Paris in pen and ink; her drawings often involve the foibles and faux pas of life in the city. Left, is her most recent take on Montmarte. She is currently writing a book about Paris.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

I Love Mister Rose's ABC Book!


















Patti Verbanas, editor of Art & Antiques Magazine, writes about Mister Rose's ABC Book: "This is great! I love it."  Get one today! Only 10 euros. PayPal accepted. Contact: Mister Rose to order now! If the link isn't working : mistahrose at yahoo dot com.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Encore : Les One Page Books

Vous rêvez de publier un livre? Même un petit bouquin? On a découvert que le One-Page-Book a beaucoup de fans, surtout en France. Voici un livre à imprime à une page de Fred Griot, écrivain, poète, artiste.  Faites le téléchargement pour VIA. Jetez un coup d'oeil sur les autres livres de Griot, et regardez son mode d'emploi de pliage. Le poète a crée VIA avec la collaboration de petit papiers et Schmul, editeurs français avec une gammes de livres à télécharger en PDF. C'est l'avenir...on est là!

Ici, à droite, un petit extrait de VIA. On voit que le One-Page-Book a des milliers de possibilitiés pour s'exprimer dans la literature, design, commerce, art.

JOW: On trouve une collaboration interesante de John Bennett, directeur Special and Rare Books, Ohio State University, et son collegue, Musicmaster. Un livre de collection d'un grand artist Fluxus. Téléchargez JOW maintenant et lisez les maîtres en petit format sur papier chez vous. (Attention, le format est US Lettre).
WINTER : Par l'artiste américaine, Julie Sadler. Télécharger Winter.

Ce mois-ci, on attend un nouveau One-Page-Book de Barack Obama et Hilary Clinton! Petit revue du paysage politique américain.  Oui, c'est bleu.

THE FULL COLLECTION OF FREE ONE-PAGE-BOOKS, CLICK HERE!

Entre-temps, faites contact avec Lalande pour imprimer vos One-Page-Books. On a commencé à travailler sur un système de reproduction, pliage et coupage assez simple et rapid pour nos clients. Let's talk!  

Saturday, January 5, 2008

500 Years of Women in Art




By Philip Scott Johnson : 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art. Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma. For a complete list of artists and paintings visit HERE.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Le One Page Book

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris a developé une idée formidable pour tous nos clients – artistes, photographes, agences de pub, boutiques et entreprises de tous genres : Un livre à une feuille. (One page book).  Utilisant une seule feuille, on imprime à A4 sur des papiers beaux, de 80 grammes à 250 grammes. Quadri couleur ou noir et blanc, la page est pliée quatre fois, puis coupé au milieu.  Repliée, la page devient un livre à huit pages! C'est beau, elegant et vraiment utile pour des milliers de fonctions. Un mini livre parfait pour un catalogue, photobook, livre d'artiste, carte de visite, cadeau, lancement d'un produit ou ligne de vêtements... en fait, tout ce que vous pouvez imaginez.  

TELECHARGER LE PDF
Alors, voici un mini-one-page-book, IT WAS A VERY BAD YEAR. Télécharger (A4 ou US lettre) le PDF ICI. [Another book, JOW, is here : JOW By Musicmaster & John Bennett (2008)]. Imprimez chez vous et les idées se lancent... Imprimez vos one-page-books avec Lalande; on comprend bien le format et on est là pour vous aider avancer vos projets. Voici un video pour mieux comprendre comment plieer le livre. Questions? Demandez-nous, c'est gratuit: ONE PAGE BOOK.

This little schematic guide, above, will help you figure it all out. The one-page-book (click here): IT WAS A VERY BAD YEAR, will allow you to see for yourself how simple and elegant and inexpensive an advertising vehicle the one-page-book is; the possibilities are endless. It is a tool that will not only win friends and influence people, but also allow you make an impact with a small budget. We can fold and cut your one-page-books or advise you on how best to use them. Talk to us about your projects (our advice is free) : Questions? Just ask, click here: ONE PAGE BOOK.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Imprimez Vos Cartes de Voeux & New Year's Cards 2008

Bienvenue et Bonne Année. Lalande Digital Art Press est votre imprimeur au coeur de Paris. Mais, on est un peu different – comme nos designs et notre accueil. Français/anglais, on est artistes qui travail avec l'artiste en vous. Bienvenue.

Voici un nouveau design pour nos Cartes de Voeux/New Year's Cards for 2008. If you are interested in this image for your Carte de Voeux/New Year's Card, contactez-nous pour toutes informations, devis, nos modes d'impressions, quantités. On est pret de tavailler avec vous ou votre societé pour fabriquer vos belles cartes.  Question? Demandez-nous, c'est gratuit: CARTES DE VOEUX 2008. Si le lien ne marche pas, faites : mistahrose at yahoo dot com. Click image to enlarge full screen.

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris is happy to work with you on your custom-designed New Year's cards. Choose among these images, or send us yours (photos, collages, paintings, drawings, and your texts). We can print 25, 50, 75, 100 or more cards for you. High quality, beautiful cards. Inexpensive and expertly printed, we work closely with you to make the best impression for the the new year...for your family, your company or your store. Questions? Give us a shout... oh, and PayPal accepted! Just ask and CLICK : I WANT TO PRINT MY NEW YEARS CARDS 2008 If the link isn't working : mistahrose at yahoo dot com.

Art & Design © Matthew Rose 2008

Monday, December 24, 2007

Carte de Voeux & New Year's Cards 2008















































































Quelques designs de cartes de voeux à votre choix pour 2008. [Click sur l'image pour l'agrandir. CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO ENLARGE]. Lalande Digital Art Press peut vous faire vos cartes pour 2008 avec votre message. Choisir parmi ces designs-ci, ou nous envoyer le votre (soit photo, dessin, texte, etc.) en PDF. L'image de votre choix sur la couverture, carte fermé, taille A5, ou bien comme carte postale, couleur recto, noir et blanc verso; papier 250 grammes ou bien recyclé, ou d'autres. Contactez-nous pour toutes informations : CARTES DE VOEUX 2008

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris is happy to work with you on custom-designed New Year's cards. Choose among these images, or send us yours and your texts. Questions? Give us a shout... oh, and PayPal accepted!


Art & Design © Matthew Rose 2008

Saturday, December 22, 2007

BONAPART CONSULTING & IVY PARIS - 2008



Susie Hollands, director and owner of Bonapart Consulting, a Paris-based real estate consultancy, commissioned Oxford, UK artist Joanna Walsh to create this dynamic carte de voeux for 2008. Hollands, who also founded the artist network, I V Y paris, a global coalition of some 400 visual artists who sometimes all converge on Paris for exhibitions and gatherings, has created a flourishing business and a vibrant community of aesthetically-minded shakers and movers. "This year, 2007, was our best year ever," she says, "and we wanted a card that communicates our enthusiasm for Paris, the art of real estate, and our belief that art is an integral part of our lives here – as is the Bon Marché!"

Joanna Walsh, was more than happy to contribute her exceptional talents to both Bonapart and ivy paris. Her illustrations which often focus on fashion and culture capture the speed and humor of Paris street bustle in this piece. "Susie is quite special and the reason why both Bonapart – I'm a client! – and ivy paris –I'm a member! – are so successful. This was a very cool project. I also think I did a good job on Sarkozy!" [See if you can find the French President in the crowd]. Joanna is currently writing and illustrating a book about Paris.

Lalande Digital Art Press Paris works with artists and companies like Bonapart and I V Y paris to produce custom-designed communications all year round. Whether they are cartes de voeux (New Year's cards), posters, books, catalogs or large and small format limited edition prints, Lalande works very closely with clients to provide a unique service in the heart of Paris. Contact us for your cartes de voeux and New Year's cards.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Mister Rose's ABC : A Little Book For Little People

Learning your ABCs will never be the same, according to Mr. Rose. Mister Rose's ABC : A Little Book For Little People (10 €) has just been published by Lalande Digital Art Press Paris.

No time to read through this post? OK: GIMME MY COPY NOW OF MISTER ROSE'S ABC, or heck, several copies, E-MAIL : MISTER ROSE'S ABC.
 
The 32-page, full-color book features original gouache paintings and poetic tongue-twisters that follow the alphabet from Arnold the annoying Airplane to (tough and dumb) Luck to Nero the Nail (he lives in a wall in Mister Rose's house) to the yackety Ying-Yangs and finally, Zoe the zaftig Zebra. [CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE AND READ].  SEE THE VIDEO!

Saddle-stitched and impeccably printed by digital master, Robert Ruscoe at Lalande, Mister Rose's ABC is really a book for kids of all ages, a perfect cadeau de Noël, New Year's, birthday or everyday gift for children or friends. Read the press from Moira McLaughlin's lovely Dog Art Today.

"Parents will have an enjoyable time reading this to their toddlers and trying to figure out why Ditzy, the deaf-as-a-door knob dog, is always digging and dancing," says Ruscoe who has two little boys. "My favorite is Nero the Nail, or maybe Romney's Rain – "Hey! Don't Complain!"

The play of words and images is typical of the artist's imagination, which is pleasantly skewed towards the impossible and the poetic. "W" is Wally Water, he writes. "Wally is originally from Wabash." Nero the nail "lives in my house," he explains. Karl, his kitten, "computes with a flute." Parents will have quite a time explaining where Wabash is and how you compute with musical instruments.

"It's the kind of kid's book," says the author's father, Irving, "that will probably drive parents crazy attempting to explain the strange words and weird and funny situations. And hey, I know! He's my son!"

[Stephane Guyader (below) who runs the baba cool bookstore, Apsara, on 44 rue Daguerre (75014), has a few copies for retail sale.]

Matthew Rose is an American artist and writer based in Paris, France. He exhibits his collages, text works, paintings and objects throughout the US and Europe. This is his first published children's book. To see more of his work, click : Collage By Matthew Rose.

BUY THE ABC BOOK NOW
The ABC, published in English, is specially-priced for web sales at only 10 € each (plus 2 € postage for France and Europe; 3 € postage for the US). Ordering is easy: Checks (in €uros or US$) or PayPal accepted. Bulk orders (10 - 49) are 7,50 €; orders of 50 or more 5 € each. If you like, the author will sign and dedicate the books if you are giving them as a gift to someone little or even someone big. We'll send out the books via priority mail.

TO PURCHASE A COPY OF MISTER ROSE'S ABC, or heck, several copies, E-MAIL :  MISTER ROSE'S ABC. [If mail link is not working, e-mail : mistahrose at yahoo dot com].

E-mail us to find out how you can produce your own books.

Sunday, December 9, 2007

La Carte de Noël : Christmas Cards 2007-2008


Votre Carte de Noël est une photo, dessin, collage, peinture...? Vous avez un message pour vos amis pour 2008? Vous voulez imprimez vite, et envoyer vos cartes cette semaine? Quelque chose osé? Vous et Lindsay Lohan à Utah? Conservateur? Vous devant votre Cezanne? On est là ! Même un tirage enorme de votre amour! Allez: Envoyez-nous un PDF et on imprimerai toute de suite... depechez vous... Your custom-designed holiday cards, prints, carte de voeux (New Year's cards)... Contactez LALANDE et on peut commencer toute de suite.

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Carte pliée (15 x 21 cm fermé). Couleur recto/verso, pliée. Imprimée sur Trucard 300 grammes.

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CLICK ICI : CARTES NOEL et CARTES DE VOEUX 2008 et on peut commencer toute de suite!

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Keep Calm For Christmas

This Christmas, Keep cool by visiting KEEP CALM. Run by a "skeleton staff of two" – Lucas and Hayley – Keep Calm is the celebrated web gallery offering inexpensive silkscreened and digital prints by artists from the UK and Europe.  The site's design choices have been featured in a dozen print and web zines for their quality and quirkiness.

Keep Calm has just offered two prints by Matthew Rose and printed by Lalande Digital Art Press Paris. "Days Like These" (pictured, right) and "Immaculate Perception," are offered in a limited edition of 21, signed, numbered and dated by the artist on 100 percent cotton (Lyson) 350 gram acid free fine art paper. These works are based upon collages by the artist. Each print measures 42 cm x 30 cm. Price is £35 plus postage, exclusively from Keep Calm.

"These prints are typical of Matthew’s works, lifting elements from one source and layering it with another," says Lucas. "Largely influenced by Joseph Cornell, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson and others, Matthew Rose gets more out of a piece of found or discolored paper with each succeeding work."

Keep Calm features works by Douglas Wilson, Alyson Fox, Jillian Ditner, Jason Synder, Jacob Arden McClure as well as Lucas and Hayley (left). Works are inexpensive but beautifully produced.

Keep Calm was established way back in February 2007 by Lucas and Hayley. Keep Calm offers high quality prints and other bits and pieces. Many products are screen printed by hand. Royal Mail permitting, prints will arrive in perfect condition. If this isn’t the case Keep Calm will replace it! Prints are wrapped in acid-free tissue paper and sent in extremely durable mailing tubes. They ship anywhere! For UK orders, prints are sent via next-day Special Delivery. For international orders prints are sent via International signed-for air mail.

Keep Calm was recently featured on Design Sponge and Poppy Talk as well as other design and art sites.

Want to know anything else? Please e-mail Lucas or Hayley by clicking here :  KEEP CALM.

Friday, November 30, 2007

Christmas Cards & Cartes de Voeux





We produce custom Christmas cards, cartes de voeux : Send us your photos and text, let us know the size and quantities and we will print your cards quickly, expertly and deliver them to you in time for Xmas. This design is available in quantities beginning at 20 ex. Questions? Get in touch now : CHRISTMAS & NEW YEARS 2008 CARDS Not much time left!

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

FACE CARTE : Your Face On A Card

Face Book? Oui. My Space? FACE CARTE? My Carte? Absolutement ! : Une carte photo ou identité qui te laisse t'exprimer...pour chaque occasion, evenement, l'hiver ou l'été, travail ou plasir, c'est la Face Carte.

Fais une Face Carte pour toi-même ou tes amis proches. C'est un cadeau unique qui montre t'es plus que visible! Fais 100 à la fois, ou 5 cartes differentes pour tes evenements – un salon d'entreprises à New York en janvier, par exemple, une autre pour un salon à Paris en mai. Ou une fête. Ou pour une soirée New Year's. Travail ou plasir. Facile and forte....C'est coolness.

Exchanger avec tes copains/copines et vos collegues. Une photo, une address mail, tél mobile, et voilà. Inoubliable. Comme Van Gogh, Lindsay Lohan, Elvis, Raquel, Einstein, la Reine de l'Angleterre ou même Superman! Become famous comme Linus (image)!

NOS PRIX: 100 exemplaires 25 Euros. 250 Exemplaires 50 Euros. 500 Exemplaires 70 Euros. 1000 Exemplaires 90 Euros.

Voulez vous votre Face Card avant Noël? Contactez nous: Je veux ma Face Carte maintenant!

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Prints From Lalande Digital Press




Lalande Digital Art Press Prints.

Ici: Gar Nichts, 2006, Matthew Rose. 30 cm x 30 cm. Impression numérique sur papier canson. Edition: 3. 100 euros. (Click pour agrandir l'image).

Voir nos éditions limitées, signées et numerotées par nos artistes:Danielle Voirin, Robert Ruscoe, Matthew Rose et bientôt des autres artistes, photographes qui travaille à Paris et ailleurs... You can purchase using Paypal. Order here: LALANDE PRINTS.

En haut: Matthew Rose ("Gar Nicht," 2006, Edition of 3 with one artist proof. Image 30 cm x 30 cm).

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Offset Portraits : Ari Rossner






















I've known Ari Rossner for more than 10 years, following his fine beauty photography as he created a distinct aesthetic and a long list of clients throughout Europe and the US. We've worked together on editorial pieces and shared a great deal of conversation on the role of digital photography and the various software abounding to get the most out of it. Ari asked me recently about a series of images he had produced involving offset plates. I went to his studio in Ivry sur Seine to see them and liked the way he'd taken an offset object and turned it into a painted object. Apparently others liked them as well; at a recent private showing he sold nearly a fifth of his production.

Ari Rossner is a beauty photographer who "dirties" his pictures to great effect. Here is how he came upon this brilliant new offset portraiture :

"At the end of a long night of printing a poster for a client, the printer removed the four large aluminum offset plates from the press and put them aside to be thrown away," he recalls. "It was so intriguing to me as a photographer to see my photo 'dirtied' with ink, I asked if I could have the plates. Once in my studio, I began to work with them, painting the surfaces with printers ink and oil paint. The results fascinated me. Since my photography focuses on beauty, a discipline that involves hours of detail work, to work directly on a metal plate unleashed a freedom I never knew before. My images received a second life."

These works are original in the sense they touch upon printing but are not prints and painting but are not on canvas. Ari has created a series of these plate portraits and exhibited them privately in Paris this past autumn, working across media to create something completely new a painterly manner. Lalande Digital Art Press produced a series of post cards for Ari's new series. See more of Ari's work here. Or e-mail Ari.

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Bernard Matussière : A La Mode & Undercover



Photographe français, Bernard Matussière a commencé sa relation avec la photographie à l’age de 12 ans lorsque sa mère lui a donné son propre Rolleiflex.

A 16 ans Bernard travaille comme apprenti au laboratoire du journal ELLE à Paris. Deux ans plus tard il entre chez un photographe parisien, Emile Muller, ou il a fait plein labo, tirages géants, prise du vue en tous genres (viande, chausses, livres, voitures, tableaux) pour quelques années et ensuite il part pour le Japon. Il restera 2 ans à Tokyo en tant qu’assistant du photographe japonais Yoshiro Tatsuki. "J'ai fait plutôt la mode et les nues. C'était encore l'époque du kimono. C'ést un japon qui n'existe plus."

De retour à Paris (chez Muller), et après quelques tâtonnements, Matussière se spécialise dans la photo publicitaire ou il rencontre un certain succès: Les campagnes publicitaires se succèdent, travaux pour Levis, Peugeot, Renault, Chanel, Jourdan, Aubade, TF1, Canal+, Barbara, Dim, Interflora, EDF, Compaq etc... Depuis peu, Matussière partage son temps entre la publicité et des travaux plus personnels: expositions et reportages à travers le monde pour une ONG de chirurgiens “La chaîne de l’espoir," un livre qui sortira au printemps 2008.

Matussière a publié plusieurs livres: “Photographe,” en 1993 et “Mésaventures du Paradis,” livre sur Cuba avec l’Academicien Erik Orsenna. "Nue," chez Fitway Editions en 2005. Plusieurs expositions ont été consacrées à son travail: "La Corderie Royale" à la Rochelle, FNAC Paris; Edward Carter Gallery en 2002 à New York. Dernière en date, 2005, Galerie Track à Paris.

SIX QUESTIONS POUR BERNARD MATUSSIRE :

Quand as-tu commencé de travailler avec la photo numérique? Quels sont les advantages?

"D'abord je voudrais dire que la numérique n'est pas une évolution de l'invention de Daguerre – c'est une chose entièrement nouvelle qui fait des images, et c'est révolutionnaire.

J’ai commencé avec la numérique il y a quatre ans," dit-il. "Les avantages sont multiples : fini d'acheter des films, fini de developper les films dans des labo très chers, plus de polaroids et aussi rapidité – le labo ne ferme pas à 18 h et le numérique est ouvert le dimanche! On fait tout chez soi, d'abord, et ensuite la transmission est vraiment extraodinaire. C'est ça la nouveauté principale. On peut les envoyer de n'importe ou à n'importe quelle heure. C'est un monde complétement nouveau."

Tu utilise quel genre d'appareil de photo numérique?

"J'utilise le Canon EOS 1N, que j'ai acheté en 2005. Il y a 12 megapixels, et ça suffit pour tous genres de photos. Ça donne un fichier à peu près 9 mega en raw. Il y a des cartes mémoires qui portent 8 giga."

Dis-nous, comment la photographie a changé depuis le debut de la photo numérique?

"La photo a changé avec le numérique dans le sens ou tout le monde est photographe (Lagerfeld, Sliman, etc). On apprend plus la photo, on fait des photos tout de suite! Après on va dans un labo digital qui arrange tout sur l’ordinateur avec des heures de travail. Sur les téléphone mobiles, on peut avoir ou faire des carnet de notes en photos... c'est pas vraiment la photo, mais ça y ressemble... C'est une autre façon de s'exprimer. Ç'est de l'image, mais pas vraiment de la photo."

Pour l'impression, qu'est-ce qu'il faut savoir pour mieux imprimer les photos numériques? Papier, machines, tirages (ratio pixels - taille), etc.

"C'est pour les spécialistes comme vous, Lalande. On peut imprimer sur tas de supports différents, et des imprimates et des encres qui donnent des résultats multiples."

Dis un peu sur tes compagnes de publicité... Aubade... ça faisait arreter les voitures dans les rues de Paris!

"Aubade, j'ai commencé vers 1986 la série noir et blanc des femmes sans têtes habillées en souvêtments... un nouveau manniére de parler et vendre la lingerie. J'ai fait les prémieres 12 leçons d'Aubade. La numero un, par exemple, c'est... "Lui offrir un peu d'ivresse." C'était toujours sympas de rouler dans Paris et de voir mes images dans les abris bus! Et surtout de voir les gens les regarder."

Raconte-nous tes derniers projets...

"C'est la fabrication du livre sur mon O.N.G : La Chaine de l’Espoir qui sort en Avril 2008 – 250 pages de photos qui racontent en noir et blanc le monde qui n'est pas du côté des projecteurs."

Click here to see more work by Paris-based French photographer Bernard Matussière.