
Jean Gabin
Book :
René Groebli
Magie Der Schiene . Rail Magic . La Magie Du Rail
Sturm & Drang
2017
'In 1949 René Groebli shot a series of images around and on top of trains in France, His working style was stimulated by his experiences with moving images, his fascination with movies. In many experiments he tried to express the dynamism of movement in single photographs. Lasting experiences – like his first train journey from Zurich to Paris – brought him to a city in which he immersed fully in the themes of romanticism and movement in the atmosphere of the French steam trains.
At the end of 1949 'Rail Magic' was published for the first time, 15 images in a publication that the artist financed himself. It was a daring opus in a time in which photography presented itself quite conservatively and hardly full of dynamism, where honest tradition demanded easily understood documentation. No surprise then, that Groebli’s images were met with rejection. Of course with time passing the work has been met with great admiration by photo historians and today an original publication is a treasured item by book collectors.
With a fresh perception, René Groebli started for this edition from the 15 photographs of the first publication and fashioned this new selection of 74 images, a sort of gem from the beginnings of the 'Subjektive Fotografie' as a remembrance of the times when the smell of soot and of smoke intensified the magic between black and white, between Paris and Zurich.'
Sturm & Drang
CD :
Kraftwerk
Die Mensch Maschine . The Man Machine . L'Homme Machine
Kling Klang
1978
Design by Ralf Hütter inspired by El Lissitzky
Film :
Jean Renoir
La Bête Humaine
1938
Jean Gabin . Lantier
Simone Simon . Séverine
Fernand Ledoux . Roubaud
Julien Carette . Pecqueux
Lantier est victime de pulsions meurtrières. Il ne se trouve bien qu’en compagnie de son chauffeur Pecqueux sur La Lison, la locomotive à vapeur avec lesquels il fait la ligne Paris - Le Havre. Il rencontre Séverine dont le mari Roubaud, sous-chef de gare du Havre, vient d’assassiner Grandmorin, le parrain de la jeune femme à qui elle avait cédé. Séverine devient sa maîtresse et bientôt elle suggère à Lantier de supprimer son encombrant mari. Sous l’empire d’une crise de Lantier, c’est elle qui est tuée. Revenu à bord de sa machine, il avoue son crime à son compagnon Pecqueux et pris d'un accès de désespoir, il se suicide en se jetant du train en marche. Pecqueux arrête le train et ne peut que constater le décès de Lantier en contrebas de la voie.
iTunes :
Kraftwerk
Paris Le Havre Express
Kling Klang
1977
GMA 231 ...