Published by Editions Du May in 2001, Écran total is a 207-page book by Jean-Daniel Lorieux, catalogued under both artistic photography and fashion photography. That dual designation gives the volume a precise position: it belongs to fashion’s image culture while also inviting consideration as a photographic work shaped for the page. Its subject is therefore not fashion alone, but the translation of fashion photography into the sustained form of a book.

Irène Frain contributes the preface and accompanying texts, establishing a clear exchange between Lorieux’s photographs and a distinct literary voice. The division of roles matters. Rather than presenting the photographer as the book’s sole authorial presence, Écran total places images within a textual framework developed by another writer. French and English are both used, extending that dialogue across languages and making the relationship between photograph and text central to the publication’s identity.

The physical scale reinforces this editorial ambition. A 35 × 28 cm hardcover extending to 207 pages, the book provides a substantial setting for sustained looking rather than the brevity of a magazine portfolio. Its dimensions, bilingual structure, and combination of photographic and written authorship distinguish it as a deliberately constructed publication, not simply a container for reproduced images.

For collectors, the first edition is significant as a clearly dated record of Lorieux’s work in book form at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Its relevance rests on the convergence of fashion photography, artistic presentation, bilingual publishing, and collaboration with Frain. Écran total deserves particular attention within collections concerned with the point at which commissioned image culture enters the more durable and self-contained space of the photobook.