Bruno Boudjelal: Disquiet Days / Jours Intranquilles
French-Algerian photographer Bruno Boudjelal's inquiry into his origins, identity and his unknown family. Rare copies available of this out-of-print book.
Product Description
Sold out for many years, the final few copies of this book are now available from Autograph. Disquiet Days / Jours Intranquilles charts Bruno Boudjelal's 11-year inquiry into his origins, his identity and his unknown family, set against the background of an Algerian state in the process of turning its citizens against each other and abandoning them to their own resources.
His journey, at once personal and familial, but also topographic and political, is described with intimacy and sensitivity as he acts as an often unwilling witness to the violent events of everyday life. The universal relevance of this story of a search for what is true in one's own biography emerges out of a mist of lies and dissimulation, and is overlaid on recent Algerian events that are shrouded in falsehoods and ignorance.
The book contains an essay by Salima Ghezali, journalist, writer and former editor of the weekly La Nation, which was banned by the Algerian authorities in 1996.
His journey, at once personal and familial, but also topographic and political, is described with intimacy and sensitivity as he acts as an often unwilling witness to the violent events of everyday life. The universal relevance of this story of a search for what is true in one's own biography emerges out of a mist of lies and dissimulation, and is overlaid on recent Algerian events that are shrouded in falsehoods and ignorance.
The book contains an essay by Salima Ghezali, journalist, writer and former editor of the weekly La Nation, which was banned by the Algerian authorities in 1996.
Product Specification
Published by Autograph, 2009
English and French text
Edited by Tom O Mara
Softcover
232 pages
22cm x 16.5cm
ISBN 9781899282128
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