“Every morning I will go out into the streets looking for colors“: this verse by Cesare Pavese (“Agonia”, 1936) could be the motto of photographer Alain Carayol.
If the journey is for him, as for many other photographers, a way of appropriating the world through the photographic lens, his method is distinguished by a certain radicality in the obvious choice to make color the decisive element at the origin of all photography. Offered by the reality that he is already looking at, color as a form, as a field, as a line, as a punctuation, as a rhythm, is suddenly the one that controls the eye and the apparatus in the recording which is the picture.
Nathalie Boulouch, Lecturer in Contemporary Art History, Rennes – F.
Alain Carayol
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