Luc Delahaye

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Luc Delahaye (born 1962) is a French photographer known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His pictures are characterized by detachment, directness and rich details, a documentary approach which is however countered by dramatic intensity and a narrative structure. [1]

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Delahaye has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal twice, [2] the Oskar Barnack Award, [3] an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, [4] the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize [5] and the Prix Pictet. [6]

Career

Delahaye started his career as a photojournalist. He joined the photo agency Sipa Press in the mid-1980s and dedicated himself to war reporting. In 1994, he joined the Magnum Photos cooperative and Newsweek magazine (he left Magnum in 2004). [2] He worked during the 1980s and 1990s as a war photographer in Afghanistan, Rwanda, Bosnia, Israel/Palestine, the Gulf, [7] Chechnya, [8] and Lebanon. His photography was characterized by its raw, direct recording of news and often combined a perilous closeness to events with an intellectual detachment in the questioning of his own presence. [2] [9] This concern was later mirrored in minimalist series published as books, notably Portrait/1, a set of photobooth portraits of homeless people and L'Autre, a series of candid portraits made with a hidden camera in the Paris subway. [7] With Winterreise, he explored the social consequences of the economic depression in Russia, "travelling from Moscow to Vladivostok, during which he spent months in the hovels of Russia's underclass". [7] In 2001, Delahaye conducted a radical formal change. [2] Documenting conflicts, political events or social issues, his pictures are made using large or medium format cameras, sometimes edited on computers and are shown in museums. [2] While exploring the boundaries between reality and the imaginary, [10] they constitute documents-monuments of immediate history, [11] and urge reflection "upon the relationships among art, history and information". [1]

Books

Awards

Collections

Delahaye's work is held in the following public collections:

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

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  3. 1 2 "Winner 2000: Luc Delahaye - LOBA". Winner 2000: Luc Delahaye - LOBA. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  4. 1 2 "2001 Infinity Award: Photojournalism". International Center of Photography. 23 February 2016. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  5. 1 2 Searle, Adrian (6 April 2005). "What are you doing here?". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Mohamed Bourouissa". Prix Pictet. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  7. 1 2 3 Lennon, Peter (31 January 2004). "The big picture". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  8. ↑ "Snapshot: 'Le Village' by Luc Delahaye". Financial Times. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  9. ↑ Weski, T.: Click/Double-Click, page 44. Walther König, 2006. ISBN   3-86560-054-9.
  10. ↑ Luc Delahaye: Snap Decision. Interview by Philippe Dagen. [ permanent dead link ]Art Press, issue 306, December 2004.
  11. ↑ Chevrier, J.F.: Click/Double-Click, page 59. Walther König, 2006. ISBN   3-86560-054-9
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  15. ↑ "Taliban". High Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  16. ↑ "Jenin Refugee Camp #1". High Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
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