Antoine d’Agata

Acéphale

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"Wanderings, endless rambling in a world where commodities are the ultimate reality, crisscrossing to the rhythm of unexpected events and imperatives related to the urgency of survival that transform lived experience into the very tool and material of invisible revolts. Hybrid community of the have-nots, subjected to the morbid effects of artificial molecules flooding the globalized markets of misery. Men rediscover dissatisfaction, carving themselves a destiny to become protagonists of the story. To live the infamy, to rid themselves of slavery through the satisfaction of instinct." Antoine d'Agata

Acéphale by Antoine d’Agata is an unflinching and chaotic fusion of text and imagery, structured as both personal exploration and political indictment. Organized into chapters—religion, art, genocide, economics, and addiction—the book confronts the violent undercurrents of globalization through a torrent of photographs and fragmented writings. True to d’Agata’s visceral style, the images blur boundaries between documentary and lived experience, immersing the viewer in a world of darkness, desire, and despair. Acéphale is not a narrative but a reckoning—where form collapses and meaning emerges through rupture.

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Format: Hardcover
Published: 2018
Size: 6.6 x 9.2 in
Pages: 732
1,000 copies
French & English

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Antoine d’Agata

Born in Marseilles, Antoine d’Agata left France in 1983 and remained overseas for the next ten years. Finding himself in New York in 1990, he pursued an interest in photography by taking courses at the International Center of Photography, where his teachers included Larry Clark and Nan Goldin.

During his time in New York, in 1991-92, d’Agata worked as an intern in the editorial department of Magnum, but despite his experiences and training in the US, after his return to France in 1993, he took a four-year break from photography. His first books of photographs, De Mala Muerte, and Mala Noche, were published in 1998, and the following year Galerie Vu began distributing his work. In 2001, he published Hometown and won the Niépce Prize for young photographers.

He continued to publish regularly: Vortex and Insomnia appeared in 2003, accompanying his exhibition 1001 Nuits, which opened in Paris in September; Stigma was published in 2004, and Manifeste in 2005.

In 2004 d’Agata joined Magnum Photos and in the same year, shot his first short film, Le Ventre du Monde (The World’s Belly); this experiment led to his long feature film Aka Ana, shot in 2006 in Tokyo.

Since 2005 Antoine d’Agata has had no settled place of residence but has worked around the world.

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