MORVAN, YAN (1954-2024) [Signed] Champs de Bataille. Éditions Photosynthèses, Arles, 2015. Large in-4 (37.5 x 30 cm). Original first edition, printed in 90 copies, signed and accompanied by a 29.5 x 37 cm print on Vélin d'Arches entitled "Waterloo", signed and numbered 01/30. Texts by Gaëlle Maïdon and Sarah Bertin. Photographs by Yan Morvan. 660 pages. 430 photographs. Publisher's binding, in slipcase and shipping box with luxury edition title label. A fine copy. "In 2004, with a Deardorff 20 × 25 view camera, I began a series on battlefields. Did these places still tell the story? Without giving in to raw emotion, I wanted to speak to the conscience, to show, through landscapes that were sometimes innocuous, a "geography" of human insanity. I was looking for another way to bear witness to a reflection on the image and the reality of war. I began photographing the battlefields of France, the landing beaches, then those of Europe, our family so often torn apart. My project is ambitious: to show the land on which men fought, to tell the story... I have scoured the battlefields of Europe and the Pacific Ocean, of Africa, America and Asia. Some sites are duly listed and marked out, while others require meticulous investigation and localization - some states don't seem to want to commemorate defeats, or have amnesia...". Yan Morvan