{"product_id":"alignment-saint-tropez","title":"Alignment, Saint-Tropez","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: 600; margin-bottom: 2px;\"\u003e▪️ Alignment, Saint-Tropez, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"margin-bottom: 18px;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eArchival pigment print, numbered and authenticated\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-transform: uppercase;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the harbour of Saint-Tropez, the mast of a sailing boat rises directly in front of the bell tower of Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption, one of the town’s defining landmarks. Its crossbar momentarily gives the mast the form of a cross within the familiar geometry of the port.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaint-Tropez bears the name of its patron saint, yet the photograph leaves this association open. The image emerges from the brief alignment of two elements closely tied to the town, brought together by the position of the camera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAfter the Icon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis group of photographs follows a particular European geography: Saint-Tropez, Portlligat, Cinque Terre, Collioure and Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Several began as fishing villages or small towns whose names were later carried far beyond their original scale by artists, writers, filmmakers and the cultural circles formed around them. Today, they exist both as inhabited places and as images in the collective imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIvailo Stanev\u003c\/strong\u003e photographs these places after their public image has long been established. He moves away from the expected view and looks for the structures through which a place reveals its character: a passage towards the sea, the crossing of two lines, old walls beside a modern harbour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs are connected to \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/monochrome-hub.com\/pages\/e-motion-la-playa-exhibition\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eE-MOTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Stanev’s ongoing project centred on Europe’s emblematic summer destinations. Here, the documentary image remains grounded in the visible details and particular character of each place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDocumentary Turn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDocumentary Turn\u003c\/strong\u003e brings together photographs made by \u003cstrong\u003eIvailo Stanev\u003c\/strong\u003e in different countries over many years. His work begins with close observation. Stanev neither directs nor reconstructs a scene, but recognises the moment when people, architecture and circumstance come into relation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs preserve the natural rhythm of what unfolds before the camera. Each belongs to his long-term documentary practice while remaining a complete work in itself — a precise encounter with a place and an instant that will not occur again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ivailo Stanev","offers":[{"title":"40×50 CM WITH PASSEPARTOUT","offer_id":54587374240081,"sku":"IS–DT–013–S-P","price":360.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"40×50 CM WITH FRAME","offer_id":54587374272849,"sku":"IS–DT–013–S-F","price":490.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/1920\/9508\/files\/is-dt-013-s_alignment-saint-tropez-limited-edition-monochrome-hub-gallery-1.jpg?v=1786878980","url":"https:\/\/monochrome-hub.com\/products\/alignment-saint-tropez","provider":"Monochrome Hub Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}