Pierre Bourdieu: The Publication
Infos
First published in French as “Images d’Algérie. Une affinité élective.”
by Camera Austria/Actes Sud.
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Institut du monde arabe, Paris, Jan.–Mar. 2003.
Pierre Bourdieu: In Algerien. Zeugnisse der Entwurzelung.
German publication
Graz 2003
240 pages, 170 b/w illustrations
Edition Camera Austria, Graz 2003.
Edited: Franz Schultheis, Christine Frisinghelli
Translation: Jörg Ohnacker, Daniela Böhmler
ISBN: 3-900508-47-X
2nd Edition: UVK Konstanz, 2009.
Pierre Bourdieu:
Images d’Algérie.
Une affinité élective.
French edition
240 pages, 170 b/w illustrations,
Actes Sud
Paris 2003
ISBN: 2-7427-4136-4
Pierre Bourdieu: En Argelia.
Testimonios del desarraigo.
Spanish Edition
248 pages, 180 b/w illustrations
Circulo de Bellas Artes
Madrid 2011.
ISBN: 978-84-87619-96-0
Pierre Bourdieu: In Algeria.
Immagini dello sradicamento.
Italian Edition
with an introduction by Andrea Rapini
312 Seiten
Carocci Editore
S.p.A, Roma 2012.
ISBN: 978-88-430-6624-7
Pierre Bourdieu:
Picturing Algeria.
English Edition
with an introduction by Craig Calhoun
248 pages, 170 b/w illustrations
Columbia University Press
New York 2012.
ISBN: 978-0231148429
Pierre Bourdieu:
Εικόνες της Αλγερίας.
Μια εκλεκτική συγγένεια.
Greek Edition
254 pages, 184 b/w illustrations
Alexandria Publications
Athens 2017.
ISBN: 978-960-221-737-5
Intro
The photographic documents by Pierre Bourdieu are above all the result of scientific work, and in this sense they must be viewed in a constructive context together with the texts that he wrote at the same time, and thus have a specific historical and thematic framework. The first task in our work, then, was to scrutinise the photographic documentations for contexts that Pierre Bourdieu analyses in his writings. We attempted to read Pierre Bourdieu’s archive and all of the circumstances of this collection of negatives and prints, comments and the collection of sketches contained in the “fiches d’Algerie” (collection of notes from Algeria), in the context of Bourdieu’s studies. Pierre Bourdieu himself had already begun to tentatively combine pictures and texts, and we were able to follow this model.
Pierre Bourdieu’s groundbreaking fieldwork, now supplemented for the first time by his photographs, provides insight into the nascent state of his sociology. Apart from this dimension of shedding light on the evolution of Bourdieu’s work, his images also comprise an impressive socio-historical document.
Reading Bourdieu’s photos alternately with his writings from this period, and if we see both media as complementary approaches not only to a social world that is becoming increasingly alien to us, but also, and above all, to an image of the human being that is rapidly being washed away by the erosive forces of modernism, these photos provide a wealth of so material illustrating the habitus and ethos of pre-modern man and his inherent dignity.
Bourdieu’s sociological and photographic work in Algeria testifies to a society full of uneven developments where people still have not overcome their homeless and uprooted situation their alienation from both tradition and modernity. Maybe it is Algeria’s tragedy that even after four decades these images have still lost none of their topicality and realism.
Pierre Bourdieu: In Algerien. Zeugnisse der Entwurzelung.
Pierre Bourdieu: Images d'Algérie. Une affinité élective.
Pierre Bourdieu: En Argelia. Imágenes del desarraigo.
Pierre Bourdieu: In Algeria. Immagini dello sradicamento.
Pierre Bourdieu: Picturing Algeria.
Pierre Bourdieu: Εικόνες της Αλγερίας. Μια εκλεκτική συγγένεια.
Materials
- Franz Schultheis: Pierre Bourdieu and Algeria. An elective affinity.
- An interview with Pierre Bourdieu by Franz Schultheis
- Christine Frisinghelli: Comments on the Photographic Documentations of Pierre Bourdieu.
- An Interview by Cathren Müller, Text feature in Camera Austria International 73/2001, pp. 4–8.
- Franz Schultheis, Pierre Bourdieu: Objectification as a profession, Text feature in Camera Austria International 76/2001, pp. 3–7.
- Franz Schultheis: Pierre Bourdieu et l'Algérie. De l'affinité élective à l'objectivation engagée.
- Entretien entre Pierre Bourdieu et Franz Schultheis: Photographies d'Algérie.
- Christine Frisinghelli: Observations concernant les documentations photographiques de Pierre Bourdieu
Contact
Custodian
Christine Frisinghelli
frisinghelli@camera-austria.at
Distribution
Barbara Stummvoll
T. +43 / (0) 316 / 81 55 50 12
distribution@camera-austria.at
© Fondation Pierre Bourdieu / Camera Austria, Graz.