From photography to cinema, from fiction to documentary, from France to the United States, from artistic development to civic engagement, Agnès Varda (1928-2019) was the extraordinary witness of her time. In her biographical essay, richly illustrated by more than 150 photos chosen and commented on by Rosalie Varda, Laure Adler paints a portrait that allows us to appreciate all the facets of her luminous model: the friend and the lover, the partner and the mother , the avant-garde creator and innovative producer, but also the “pioneer of the image” and the “revolutionary of montage”, the “artist sociologist” and the “Sunday anthropologist”, the “inventor of forms” and the “philosopher of existence”. Of The short tip (1955) until Varda by Agnès (2019), the pillar of rue Daguerre was able to immortalize the metamorphoses of his time, the prodigious evolution of mentalities, giving a voice and a face to those who denounced injustices. With as much rigor as sensitivity, Laure Adler’s book gives the full measure of the inestimable legacy of Agnès Varda.
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