Readings at Parkside:  
Les Flashs D'Anne ~ Anne Day

Friendship Among the Ashes with Hervé Guibert

The Parkside Lounge
317 East Houston Street
New York City
Sunday, December 7th, 4pm



Salvaged from a devastating fire, Day’s photographs and stories provide glimpses into her close friendship with author Hervé Guibert.

In the fall of 2013, the house of American photographer Anne Day burnt to the ground. Some of her prints and negatives survived in a metal file cabinet but had become completely charred: only remnants of images and traces of a younger self remained. A close friend of hers in the early 1980s was the French photographer and author Hervé Guibert (1955–91). They worked together on newspaper assignments for Le Monde, profiling Orson Welles, Jane Fonda and the antique dealer Madeleine Castaing, to name a few.

When not working, they took day trips to the seaside; Guibert introduced Day to his Parisian circle of friends. He took her to see performances by Pina Bausch and Mark Morris and they dined with Cartier-Bresson and Duane Michals. While Day made her living as a photographer, it was the photos she took of her grandmother that Guibert loved the most. Taking its title from an article Guibert wrote about Day, this book mixes Day’s burnt prints with her anecdotes about the people she knew and the places she went.

“A real flashback seeing Anne’s photos and reading her stories. 43 years have passed, and Hervé returns with his great interviews from Le Monde, and her, his photographic accomplice. So many moments that, even if burned, still live on. Life is always full of surprises.”

—Christine Guibert