Photo Trouvée

Description

Photo Trouvée is a unique collection of 285 amateur photographs found, collected and edited by the eminent French photohistorian Michel Frizot and the photographic researcher Cédric de Veigy. Defined by the authors as ‘an anthropology of the ordinary’, the ‘found photographs’ of Photo Trouvée – intensely personal records of family reunions, images of childhood, holidays and so forth – mirror universal emotions and attitudes.’images chosen for their atmosphere and sense of humanity as well as for their quality as pictures.’
Sunday Herald‘Reading this book is like walking past houses at night time and watching through the brightly lit windows of other people’s homes … It is like a small anthropology of the ‘ordinary’ … The beauty of this publication is the fact that each picture has its own history, and stands almost as a chapter in itself. The proverbial one thousand words, perhaps.’
8 Ei8ht Photojournalism‘This book is a treasure trove that includes 285 pictures.’
Ready Made‘A unique collection.’
Photo District News‘The unatributed Cartier-Bresson-like amateur snapshots in Photo Trouvée (Phaidon), edited by Michael Frizot and Cedric de Veigy, are all the more inspiring to seasonal shutterbugs for their anonymous immediacy.’
Vogue Magazine