À contrechamp, photographier le théâtre de ceux qui voient. Ito Josué et Louis Caterin pour Jean Dasté à la Comédie de Saint-Étienne (1948-1963).pdf / Cavallo, Valerie

Cavallo, Valerie, «À contrechamp, photographier le théâtre de ceux qui voient. Ito Josué et Louis Caterin pour Jean Dasté à la Comédie de Saint-Étienne (1948-1963)». Revue internationale de PhotolittératurePhilt, 2,  , (2018), pp.

Abstract
In 1948 Jean Dasté set up his company in Saint-Étienne, and chose to play in city squares and surrounding villages for an audience that does not usually go to the theater. Two local photographers – Ito Josué and his assistant Louis Caterin – were then asked to document the performances. Observing the scene, they captured the gestures, faces and corporalities of the actors, and, gradually, looking at the reverse field, they focused their camera lens on the crowd whose expressions revealed an attentive reception. Considering their pictures are one of the rare instances instances in which the public is approached, this text revisits the photographic corpus covering Jean Dasté’s exchange with « those who see » in order to observe distance and focus used by the photographers as well as the gazes of the spectators. These pictures give rise to a reflexive work on singular beings who, without being cut off from their existential conditions, come to encounter the reality of the living spectacle and inhabit the dramaturgical space with an intensity that the photographic intermediary – in its creativity and not only its capture – strives to reveal.

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