'The book is a form of high drama that takes place inside the fantastical, microcosmic worlds one finds upon a watch face or in the refracted light of a diamond.'
, is an exploration of the strange terrain between these two modes of “fetish.” While the book’s photographs, most of which were taken of timepieces and fine jewelry, dive head first into the inherent seduction of the hyper-expensive, they also seem to imbue these objects with a strange kind of life.
“The imaginary life I invent for each each object I shoot comes from the indefinitely stretched string of my childhood,” Lagrange says, recalling the women who helped raise him in rural France. “Their bags, their shoes, their lipstick were weapons in their hands.”because I’m the kind of person who enjoys the clicky sound my headphone case makes when I close it, or buying an object and opening its box, and its other box, and finding it inside tiny velvet satchel.
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