Eden (book)
2016 | Eden published by Aperture, in collaboration with Fred Cave, text by Agnès Sire, 1024 pages |
Eden is the first winner project of Immersion, a French American Photography Commission dedicated to contemporary photography supported by the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès and Aperture.
“From the outset, Couzinet-Jacques’s proposal included the purchase of a small, historical schoolhouse in Eden, North Carolina, as a site for exploring ideas of property, ownership, and image-making. One of his first activities was to scan the entire exterior of the house; the primary component of this book is the reproduction of the almost one thousand scans of the façade. In other words, the book contains the photographic shell of the building.
Woven throughout the gritty, distillate images of the house are elements from the four stages of the project’s development over the course of one year. The first stage deals with the prospecting and research of a house and of Eden; the second concerns the buying of the Little Red Schoolhouse; the third documents the repairs made to the house; and, finally, the fourth stage presents the exploration and experimentation in and around the house. These materials incorporate historical and legal documents pertaining to the house, as well as video and photographic documentation of the past year.” (Aperture.org)