YVES SAINT LAURENT: LES DERNIERS JOUR DE BABYLONE, Photographs by by Luc Castel, text by Dominique Baqué

Editions du Regard, 2013, First edition, 108 pp., 9 1/4" X 11 1/4", Hardcover Fine in near fine+ dust jacket The legendary apartment on Rue de Babylone has been deserted since Yves Saint Laurent's death. Silence reigns. Pierre Bergé allows Luc Castel to photograph it one last time. A testimonial task. To document what the apartment of the couple, Pierre Bergé and Yves Saint Laurent, was like before the big auction. Luc Castel's photographs thus become: "A faithful document of what happened, not just on the day of the move—as was planned—but for a month, day after day, from mid-January to mid-February 2009, until the famous sale of the collection at the Grand Palais and the exhibition that preceded it. But a documentary that is paradoxically both very modest and animated by a melancholic, elegiac breath, a true photographic writing, as if one could not escape the presence, in these places, of the grim reaper." After speaking with Pierre Bergé, Dominique Baqué delivers a subtle text, mat