The photographer Alix Cléo Roubaud is the subject of an exhibition that’s just closed at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (held from 28 October, 2014-1 February, 2015). The UL acquired the catalogue to this exhibition at the end of December (Alix Cléo Roubaud : photographies : quinze minutes la nuit au rythme de la respiration / Alix Cléo Roubaud ; sous la direction d’Anne Biroleau-Lemagny, d’Hélène Giannecchini et de Dominique Versavel – 2014.10.1872), which affords us a good opportunity to talk about Cléo Roubaud in particular, and more generally about exhibition catalogues in our collections in the UL.

Alix Cléo Roubaud (1952-1983) was a French-Canadian photographer. In June 1980, she married the poet Jacques Roubaud in Cambridge, and the two spent much time in the city. She had studied Wittgenstein for an unfinished philosophy doctorate, and his connection to the city provided inspiration for some of her photographs, while another series was taken in the University Arms Hotel in Cambridge.

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