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MANUEL DE LA PHOTO RATÉE (Special edition)

Thomas Lélu

  • Special edition coming with the book
  • Inkjet print on Hahnemühle paper 290g
  • Titled, signed and numbered
  • 5 images
  • Edition of 50
  • French edition
180€

Regular Edition here

Manuel de la photo ratée offers a rigorous yet ironically pedagogical reading of the most common analog photographic accidents. Blurs, backlighting, overexposure, accidental framing, awkward compositions, or partially cut figures are all examined with the seriousness of a technical handbook. Conceived as a fake practical guide, the book methodically and humorously analyses the conditions required to reproduce these so-called “mistakes.” Far from treating them as failures, it shows how photographic mishaps can become a form of visual language in their own right. Through this systematic approach, the book reframes error not as absence of control, but as a creative and expressive photographic strategy.