01) The Significant Savages

Gregoire Pujade - Lauraine
01) The Significant Savages

Photographs: Grégoire Pujade-Lauraine

Publisher: RVB Books

392 pages

Pictures: 374

Year: 2011

Price: 150 €

Comments: Hardcover. With obi as issued. 240 x 166 mm. First edition, 2011. Limited edition of 350 numbered copies. Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, vol. III, p.294. Copy in very good condition.

In this age in which what we call ‘social networking’ has probably become the main vehicle for photography, The Significant Savages presents a foray into the way the ‘profile image’ is used to sum up one’s personality, particularly when it avoids showing one’s face or body. The book exploits an arbitrary selection of Facebook profile images in which alternative artefacts are represented instead of the person: seascapes, forests; dogs and horses and cats; cars, bikes or fancy boats; cities, socks and shells, galaxies.