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Eric Maillet

Silent Conversations

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This monograph presents Eric Maillet's entire body of personal photographic work. Water and nature occupy a very important place in Maillet’s works with water in many forms; snow, ice, and...

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  • ISBN: 9788862084154
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 192
  • Illustrations: 150
  • Binding: Hardbound
  • Release: June 2015
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This monograph presents Eric Maillet's entire body of personal photographic work. Water and nature occupy a very important place in Maillet’s works with water in many forms; snow, ice, and bubbles. His images reduce nature to its simplest element, allowing one to contemplate its unexpected aesthetic. The female body also holds an important place throughout his work and finds its harmony in Maillet’s nature-focused universe. His work has always taken into consideration that an open book or magazine invites the reader to look at two images simultaneously. Maillet chose 'Silent Conversations', two words meant to reflect the relationship between his images used to create diptychs. Maillet wanted to underline the exchange between the two images and indicate that it is in the middle that things happen. It also seemed interesting to Maillet to play with the contrast and the opposition (as we often see in photography and in art such as the distinction between shadows and light) of “silent” and “conversation”. This seems paradoxical. This causes us to ask ourselves questions. The photos are silent yet they tie together a long personal history, much research, and many conversations.

Eric Maillet (born 1957) discovered photography at the end of the 1970s. A completely self-taught photographer, he cultivated a style influenced by the work of Brodovitch and Rodtchenko. In taking inspiration from painting, he quickly realized that the graphic impact, the lines, and the composition were a fundamental base in making an image perfect. Maillet admires the great reportage photography of Henri Cartier Bresson and Willy Ronis, and it is through this perspective that he approaches his still-life work: a reporter exposing and describing what he sees in his everyday life.

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  • Description

    This monograph presents Eric Maillet's entire body of personal photographic work. Water and nature occupy a very important place in Maillet’s works with water in many forms; snow, ice, and bubbles. His images reduce nature to its simplest element, allowing one to contemplate its unexpected aesthetic. The female body also holds an important place throughout his work and finds its harmony in Maillet’s nature-focused universe. His work has always taken into consideration that an open book or magazine invites the reader to look at two images simultaneously. Maillet chose 'Silent Conversations', two words meant to reflect the relationship between his images used to create diptychs. Maillet wanted to underline the exchange between the two images and indicate that it is in the middle that things happen. It also seemed interesting to Maillet to play with the contrast and the opposition (as we often see in photography and in art such as the distinction between shadows and light) of “silent” and “conversation”. This seems paradoxical. This causes us to ask ourselves questions. The photos are silent yet they tie together a long personal history, much research, and many conversations.


  • The author

    Eric Maillet (born 1957) discovered photography at the end of the 1970s. A completely self-taught photographer, he cultivated a style influenced by the work of Brodovitch and Rodtchenko. In taking inspiration from painting, he quickly realized that the graphic impact, the lines, and the composition were a fundamental base in making an image perfect. Maillet admires the great reportage photography of Henri Cartier Bresson and Willy Ronis, and it is through this perspective that he approaches his still-life work: a reporter exposing and describing what he sees in his everyday life.


  • Shipping

    Shipments are made worldwide by express courier.

    Delivery is expected within 7 working days after registration of payment.

    Shipping costs vary depending on the weight of the shipment and the country of destination, and are calculated automatically when the order is placed.


  • Return and refund

    Pursuant to Article 5 of Legislative Decree No. 185 of 22 May 1999, if the customer is a consumer (i.e. a natural person who purchases goods for purposes not related to his or her professional activity, or who makes a purchase by omitting a VAT number from the order form), he or she has the right to withdraw from the purchase contract for any reason whatsoever, without the need to provide explanations and without any penalty, within 14 working days from the day of receipt of the goods.

    The right of withdrawal shall be exercised by sending, within the aforementioned term, a written notice to the geographical address of the supplier's registered office by means of a registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. The communication may also be sent, again within the same deadline, by means of a PEC or facsimile.
    The consumer shall enclose with the communication all the references of the order (order date, order number, precise references identifying the party concerned, company or private individual.
    The goods you wish to return must be undamaged and in their original packaging.

    The consumer must also supplement the communication with his or her complete bank details in order to obtain reimbursement of the sums paid (current account number, ABI and CAB, CIN code; for foreign countries, the BIC and IBAN codes), which will be carried out as quickly as possible and in any case within fourteen days of the date on which the supplier became aware of the consumer's exercise of the right of withdrawal. As the only charge for exercising the right of withdrawal, the consumer shall bear the direct cost of returning the goods. In the case of payment by credit card, the sums shall be returned net of bank commission charges (2.5%).

    In the event of a dispute, reference will be made to the competent court.