Presentation of L'Album. English version

"K's Photograph Album"

What if Max Brod, his friend, had not only saved from the flames the small blue notebooks. What if, in spite of the prohibition, he had also kept a thin album of sixteen photographs? And it would be this album which would be presented here. An album of improbable photographs where Franz Kafka (Mr K.) would appear in places and would approach the characters that it could have (or maybe that he should not have) met. In a way, a life dreamt. A tribute, anyway.

We must admit that a slight fanciful slipped into some of these images, but it is also known that many writings of Kafka were of funny inspiration and that their author laughed quite a lot when reading them to his friends. He had too much humour not to appreciate the joke.

But, one will not be able to dispute our references. With a little attention, one will find indeed, more or less hidden, characters like Karl Rossmann or Gregor Samsa, but also the beloved sister Ottla and the friend Milena, the places from Prague which Kafka knew so well, as the castle of Hradschin, the pointed roofs of the Great town square, the lane of Alchemists and even the Office of insurances for the industrial accidents where Doctor Kafka used to work (although this environment is made more luminous here).And why this tall young man (1,82m!) who was always looking for the new innovations of his time, him who read Freud who attended to the first air meetings, who frequented the "cinematograph" (he would surely have loved Jean Vigo), wouldn't he have met Kandinsky and appreciated jazz music?

The tone is sometimes more serious. Franz Kafka whose sisters were exterminated by the Nazis, would he have liked to meet this French gendarme who "kept" the Jews captured in France. These ones who were on standby of a departure, for … who knows where ?

Our affection for "Monsieur K." is recent. But not exclusive. An image intends to prove it. It is the one where a nine year old child is transformed into a "father" of quite honourable Sirs whose names are: Borges, Breton, Gracq and Perec. In them, one finds like "a spirit of family" and especially the same beauty of expression as the one of "the man of Prague". Not really a child when he died but so young however.

The Lightings, the compositions, the atmospheres and the sepia tone were selected to restore as well as possible the climate of quiet nightmare and of padded horror which surrounded its writings.


*"K's Photograph Album"* What if Max Brod, his friend, had not only saved from the flames the small blue notebooks. What if, in spite of the prohibition, he had also kept a thin album of sixteen photographs? And it would be this album which would be presented here. An album of improbable photographs where Franz Kafka (Mr K.) would appear in places and would approach the characters that it could have (or maybe that he should not have) met. In a way, a life dreamt. A tribute, anyway. We must admit that a slight fanciful slipped into some of these images, but it is also known that many writings of Kafka were of funny inspiration and that their author laughed quite a lot when reading them to his friends. He had too much humour not to appreciate the joke. But, one will not be able to dispute our references. With a little attention, one will find indeed, more or less hidden, characters like Karl Rossmann or Gregor Samsa, but also the beloved sister Ottla and the friend Milena, the places from Prague which Kafka knew so well, as the castle of Hradschin, the pointed roofs of the Great town square, the lane of Alchemists and even the Office of insurances for the industrial accidents where Doctor Kafka used to work (although this environment is made more luminous here).And why this tall young man (1,82m!) who was always looking for the new innovations of his time, him who read Freud who attended to the first air meetings, who frequented the "cinematograph" (he would surely have loved Jean Vigo), wouldn't he have met Kandinsky and appreciated jazz music? The tone is sometimes more serious. Franz Kafka whose sisters were exterminated by the Nazis, would he have liked to meet this French gendarme who "kept" the Jews captured in France. These ones who were on standby of a departure, for … who knows where ? Our affection for "Monsieur K." is recent. But not exclusive. An image intends to prove it. It is the one where a nine year old child is transformed into a "father" of quite honourable Sirs whose names are: Borges, Breton, Gracq and Perec. In them, one finds like "a spirit of family" and especially the same beauty of expression as the one of "the man of Prague". Not really a child when he died but so young however. The Lightings, the compositions, the atmospheres and the sepia tone were selected to restore as well as possible the climate of quiet nightmare and of padded horror which surrounded its writings.