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Arles 2012: Alain Desvergnes

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“Imagine if we could hold a seminar with a discussion between Rousseau and Voltaire. We would have had these two men telling the stories of their lives. We have the fortune today to have the greatest photographers in the world. Even if many of them are disappearing now, they all came to Arles.”

That’s how Alain Desvergnes responded in 1980 on the French television station TF1 to Bernard Golay, incredulous about the festival’s interest for the general public. He added: “A remark, a smile, a brief word on the Place du Forum can mean more to a young photographer or photography lover than many other things. There is a certain type of light that radiates from conversation.”

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