
Elsebound
Photographs from the Quiet Hours
Rizzoli International Publications (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 15. September 2026
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-8478-7729-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Hopper-esque, cinematic photographs piece together fragments of a chiaroscuro universe, blending autobiographical elements with portraits of a disillusioned society. Unfolding like traces of a story dreamlike, and mysterious, yet strangely familiar. Deserted streets glow with pale light, anonymous figures linger at crossroads, and landscapes shimmer between the ordinary and the surreal. A woman lost in thought seems ready to step out of her own life, garden gate opens, impossibly, onto an abyss. Each image is suspended in time, charged with silence, suspense, and the feeling that something has just happened or is about to. Rachline blurs the borders between reality and imagination, between the tangible and the cinematic. Capturing the solitude of contemporary life, but also its fragile beauty the nostalgia for something lost, the hope for something else, the tension of waiting in an uncertain world. Rachline offers not just photographs but a journey into the subconscious, where noir fiction, poetry, and private dreams intersect. This book is an invitation to wander through the in-between spaces of existence mysterious, melancholic, yet deeply human.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
200 COLOR AND B/W PHOTOGRAPHS
Dimensions
Height: 330 mm
Width: 236 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8478-7729-4 (9780847877294)
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Persons
Nicolas Rachline is a photographer based in Belgium. He directed music videos for Yves Simon, Amazoniac , and Pull Marine with Isabelle Adjani, under Luc Besson. In 2008, he transformed the fashion magazine Above into a high-end environmental publication. His first book, Le Dissident, was published in 2007. Graydon Carter is a writer, editor, and journalist. He is best known as editor of Vanity Fair (1979 1984). He has authored several books on politics and media and has contributed to The New York Times, The Atlantic, and other leading publications.