ANDRÉ PRINCIPE Non-Fiction

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ANDRÉ PRINCIPE Non-Fiction

ANDRÉ PRINCIPE Non-Fiction is published on the occasion of Príncipe´s major exhibition to date, in Centro Cultural Vila Flor (Guimarães, Portugal). Non-Fiction is a heartfelt reflection on how to use photography.

The book combines photographs with entries of a dream diary done in the last twenty years. Together with many new images, we revisit Príncipe´s adventure photos from different series. We learn more about them, where and when they were made. As well as how they relate to each other.

Non-fiction is what you experience with your eyes open, when you are an eyewitness. It is historically or empirically factual. Non-fiction is Príncipe´s photography. Fiction is what you see with your eyes closed, your dreams, what you imagine. In the book, the photos and text interact in mysterious, humorous, significant ways. Non-fiction becomes so close to fiction that it can be only defined by its negative, like a human is a non-monkey, or a man, a non-woman. Things are transitional. Half of the poetry of life would be gone, if we did not feel that life was either a dream or a stage in which the actors seldom realised that they were playing their parts. It´s about what we call reality.

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