Le livre et l’image : Sophie Bassouls photographe d’Annie Ernaux

This chapter examines the work of Sophie Bassouls, who captured Annie Ernaux between 1984 and 2002, and reflects on the relationship between photography and literature. It concludes with an excerpt from a previously unpublished interview with Bassouls discussing the distinctive features of the photo shoots, the evolution of Ernaux’s feminist activism, attitudes of women and men in front of the camera and possible connections between Ernaux’s journaux extimes and the photographer’s own project on cities.