Review by Sebastian Hau.
After two influential books revered by a small circle of fans, French photographer Bertrand Fleuret vanished from the scene for some years. American independent press J&L Books, which has published some of my favourite titles, has now produced its second collaboration with Fleuret, a slim and unassuming book about a fleeting subject: a dream. Printed on black paper there is a brief text in which the photographer tells of his dream, seemingly balancing between an economical and pragmatic description and his wonder and doubt about what his mind might have been trying to tell him. All this is set against photographs and drawings illustrating his dream. The photographer has culled images from the web, used photographs from his archive, or taken new pictures. This all happens in some twenty pages, leaving the reader with the frustrated feeling you often get after dreaming, of having encountered a different dimension and being completely at loss to understand it. Fleuret’s work reaches towards the imaginary and tries to connect the inner eye to the camera and to convincingly move his project forward and taking us along with him.
