This book accompanies the exhibition of Alessandra Sanguinetti: The Adventures of Guille and Belinda presented from January 30 to May 19, 2024 at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.
This intimate, conversational reader transports us to the enchanted world of Alessandra Sanguinetti’s photographic series The Adventures of Guille and Belinda, exploring the evolution of this celebrated work and the themes and questions it raises. Made in the countryside of Buenos Aires Province, Sanguinetti’s series follows the lives of two cousins as they come of age alongside the realities of rural life. From a young age, Guille and Belinda have been Sanguinetti’s collaborators, co-conspirators, and playmates, evoking the unique worlds suspended between dreams and reality that define childhood, adolescence, and eventually adulthood. Here, they reflect with Sanguinetti on the work’s making and their changing relationship to it over time in an extended conversation illustrated with previously unseen images from across the years. This discussion is complemented by a conversation between Sanguinetti and curators Clément Chéroux and Pierre Leyrat, unpacking the ways this work engages with and disrupts conversations around documentary photography, artistic collaboration, and the depiction of the lives of girls and women the world over.
Alessandra Sanguinetti was born in New York City in 1968 where she lived for two years before moving to Buenos Aires with her family, where she lived and worked until 2002. She is currently based in the San Francisco Bay area and Buenos Aires. She is an ICP graduate, a member of Magnum Photos since 2007, and recipient of numerous fellowships and awards for her photography (including the Guggenheim Fellowship, Hasselblad Foundation Grant, the Rencontres d’Arles Discovery Award and many other).
Paperback with flap
12.5 x 19.5cm
Bilingual English / French
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