The house
Doinel Publishing
Doinel Publishing issues books in limited series: fine photography and art books, essays, narratives, public-domain reissues. Each title is carefully established and printed in a short run; illustrated works are numbered. The house chooses its papers, its bindings and its formats to suit the text and the images, never the other way round. It makes objects built to last. Its line holds in a single idea, borrowed from photography: to pull focus is a choice. Doinel publishes what brings the beautiful, the positive, what draws together, into sharpness.
- Limited series
- Careful making
- Short print runs
Manifesto
Reality contains everything, all at once: the beautiful and the ugly, what brings together and what divides. Faced with it, every creator makes a choice: the focus. The photographer chooses a frame and pulls focus — the rest softens without disappearing. The author makes the same gesture: deciding which truth deserves sharpness. Some choose the shadow, to provoke thought, and that is a legitimate focus. Others bring into focus the beautiful, the positive, what brings people together. Doinel Publishing is the home of those.
Epigraphs
« The question is not what you look at, but what you see. »
« The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way. »
« The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. »
« La beauté est partout. Ce n'est point elle qui manque à nos yeux, ce sont nos yeux qui manquent à la voir. »
« Beauty is everywhere. It is not she who is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. »
« Le seul véritable voyage […] ce ne serait pas d'aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d'avoir d'autres yeux. »
« The only true voyage […] would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. »
« Photographier, c'est mettre sur la même ligne de mire la tête, l'œil et le cœur. »
« To photograph is to place the head, the eye and the heart along the same line of sight. »
Images in this preview come from open sources (Openverse, Wikimedia Commons — CC0, public domain, Creative Commons). They will be replaced by the photographs of the Doinel Gallery artists.