Observations of modern life in Exteriors from Annie Ernaux

Exteriors: Annie Ernaux and Photography is the full title of this photobook. It brings together the writing of Annie Ernaux with photographs taken from the collection of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Images from photographers such as Harry Callahan, Dolorès Marat, Daido Moriyama, Issei Suda and Henry Wessel. This project of by writer and curator Lou Stoppard uncovers the ways the written and visual image can inform and inflect on one another. Both show the estrangement of life in the big city. It turns out that these feelings are not tied to place and time. This gives both Ernaux's text and the images a timelessness. They reinforce each other.