American Album | Eloise Labarbe-Lafon | Cé Editions 2025

"American Album is a book of images captured on the road, retracing a romantic epic in the United States, at a time when the American dream seems to be crumbling. A journey where the protagonists chase something elusive while fleeing an indefinite reality.

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The oil paint applied to the black and white photographs accentuates this oscillation between reality and illusion. Sometimes faithful, sometimes dissonant, it reinterprets the world, giving each image a new dimension. Between gentleness and tension, between quest and desire, American Album captures this suspended moment, just before everything changes." - From publisher's statement