Elger Esser 'Die engen Wasser' (Kerber Publishing)

Elger Essers ‘The Narrow Waters’ (Kerber Publishing) – the quiet force of rivers as a symbol for the flow of time and a poetic bridge to Julien Gracq’s work of the same name

With ‘The Narrow Waters’, publishing house Kerber presents a collection of more than 60 depictions of river landscapes in a photo book created by Elger Esser (*1967) over the last 25 years. Again and again, the artist traces the literary trail of famous writers such as Proust, Maupassant, and Flaubert. Shown in several of the images is the Èvre, a tributary of the Loire, which French author Julien Gracq (1910-2007) describes in his essay...