paulcowdell's review
5.0
This is a short book (40-odd pages, mostly of photographs), but its rich suggestiveness opens up enormous vistas and new worlds in looking, seeing things that had remained invisible, representing, transforming, in giving objects 'the greatest possible autonomy in a familiar setting', as Xavier Canonne puts it in his useful 'Afterword'. One of Nougé's photographs shows a woman trimming her eyelashes with a pair of scissors: as Canonne explains, the French word - déciller - also means opening the eyes wider.
Nougé explains it in his usual direct way: 'It is a matter of giving people and objects a use and function different from their usual ones'.
Nougé explains it in his usual direct way: 'It is a matter of giving people and objects a use and function different from their usual ones'.
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