{"product_id":"eloise-labarbe-lafon-american-album-preorder-signed","title":"American Album *Signed","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"361\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Album\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of images captured on the road, retracing a love story across the United States, in a time when the American dream seems to be collapsing. A journey where the protagonists chase after something elusive while fleeing an undefined reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"363\" data-end=\"1010\"\u003eOn this runaway path, landscapes scroll past—similar yet shifting—like cardboard sets endlessly renewing themselves. Hotel rooms, diners with empty plates, colourful houses, desert vistas: a frenetic accumulation of frozen moments, like the compulsive cataloging of a desire to immobilise the ephemeral, an irrepressible need to grasp and classify everything. But beyond the fantasy, all is changeable. Sets fade and reverse; the quest appears to end, only to slip away again, in a whirlwind, a gentle storm where all bearings dissolve. In a dazzling and artificial America, the lovers leap from one film to another without ever finding the exit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1012\" data-end=\"1354\"\u003eOil paint applied to black-and-white photographs heightens this oscillation between reality and illusion. Sometimes faithful, sometimes dissonant, it reinterprets the world, granting each image a new dimension. Between softness and tension, between quest and desire, \u003cem data-start=\"1279\" data-end=\"1295\"\u003eAmerican Album\u003c\/em\u003e captures a suspended moment—just before everything tips.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1580\"\u003ePublished by Cé Éditions, 2025, France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1580\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Album\u003c\/em\u003e was launched at Claire de Rouen on Thursday 18 September 2025.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Eloïse Labarbe-Lafon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54715630322049,"sku":null,"price":52.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/7613\/files\/cdr_660.jpg?v=1781084751","url":"https:\/\/www.clairederouenbooks.com\/products\/eloise-labarbe-lafon-american-album-preorder-signed","provider":"Claire de Rouen","version":"1.0","type":"link"}