OSCURANA
ANTOINE D'AGATA

SPECIAL EDITION

INFRAMUNDO, Mexico

EDICIONES FIFV, Chile

KWY, Peru

LE DERNIER CRI, France

SUB, EDITORA, Argentina
VOID, Brazil-Greece

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

OSCURANA presents a body of work that arises from the various trips that Antoine d'Agata has made for more than thirty years in the countries of Brazil, Peru, Nicaragua, Salvador, Ecuador, Bolivia, Guatemala, Haiti, Puerto Rico, the United States, Cuba and Mexico, and from a selection of Antoine d'Agata's work in Latin America, this collaborative project is developed between 6 publishers from various countries, in a dialogue and form of production that opens up new proposals in the production of photobooks.

OSCURANA offers a reflection on the work of the extraordinary French author Antoine d'Agata from various countries and publishing houses. It also proposes an exploration of the richness of the possibilities offered by collaborative publishing projects. The 7 different books share Antoine d'Agata's artistic statement, the text called OSCURANA and the same size, giving each publisher freedom in the selection of images, design, choice of materials, printing and binding. An essential part of the project is that each book has been developed and produced in each publisher's country, using local printing processes and materials, making the book a living medium that responds to processes of collaboration and dialogue. These 7 books are brought together in a special edition box of a limited print run of 100 copies, designed by Ramon Pez and produced by INFRAMUNDO. When opened, this box exposes silkscreen images and the 7 books showing different versions of Antoine d'Agata's OSCURANA body of work.

ANTOINE D'ÁGATA

Marseille. He left France in 1983 and remained abroad for the next ten years. In New York in 1990, he began studying photography at the International Center of Photography, with Larry Clark and Nan Goldin.In New York, 1991-92, d'Agata worked as an intern in the editorial department of Magnum. He returned to France in 1993. Her first books of photographs, De Mala Muerte and Mala Noche, were published in 1998, and the following year Galerie Vu began distributing her work. In 2001 he published Hometown, and won the Niépce Prize for young photographers. He continued to publish regularly: Vortex and Insomnia appeared in 2003, accompanying her exhibition 1001 Nuits, which opened in Paris in September; Stigma was published in 2004, and Manifeste in 2005.In 2004 d'Agata joined Magnum Photos and in the same year shot his first short film, Le Ventre du Monde (The Belly of the World); this experiment led to his feature film Aka Ana, shot in 2006 in Tokyo.Since 2005, Antoine d'Agata has had no fixed place of residence, but has worked all over the world.