Fall/Winter 2012/2013 - Steidl
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Martine Fougeron<br />
Teen Tribe<br />
A World with Two Sons<br />
Teen Tribe is a series of intimate portraits of Martine Fougeron’s two adolescent sons and their tribe of friends growing<br />
up in New York and France. Begun in 2004, Fougeron has followed the lives of her sons Nicolas and Adrien from the<br />
ages of thirteen and fourteen respectively as they entered adulthood. The book pictures adolescence as a transformative<br />
state, caught between childhood and adulthood, between the feminine and masculine, between innocence and<br />
burgeoning self-identity. As both mother and photographer, Fougeron combines a tender transparency for her subject<br />
with a more distanced view of the world of teenagers. Teen Tribe is a visual diary of her sons’ domestic lives arranged<br />
chronologically, capturing the different rites of passage and personal challenges they encounter over time. Inspired by<br />
Dutch paintings of domestic scenes particularly those of Vermeer, as well as by cinematic compositions, Fougeron’s<br />
work is both a sensual biography of two boys, and a depiction of the universal process of growing up to which all can<br />
relate.<br />
Martine Fougeron was born in Paris in 1954 and studied at Wellesley College and l’Institut d’Études Politiques de<br />
Paris. For the past fourteen years she has lived with her two sons in New York. After a successful career as creative<br />
director of a perfumery, Fougeron turned to photography, studying at the International Center of Photography in New<br />
York. Her work on her two sons has been exhibited internationally and is held in major public and private collections<br />
including the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Fougeron is a regular contributor<br />
to The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.<br />
Martine Fougeron<br />
Teen Tribe<br />
A World with Two Sons<br />
Essay by Lyle Rexer<br />
Interview by Robert A. Schafer, Jr.<br />
Book design by Martine Fougeron and Gerhard <strong>Steidl</strong><br />
144 pages<br />
11 x 9.8 in. / 28 x 25 cm<br />
85 photographs<br />
Four colour process<br />
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket and a DVD<br />
€ 56.00 / £ 45.00 / US$ 75.00<br />
ISBN 978-3-86930-545-5<br />
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