Some argue that the real is a springboard for the dream. So this week, blank screen. No dream to consider in this press review. There must be several realities, the good and the bad. The photographer is responsible for capturing the mood of reality, as a privileged witness , the voyeur of the indistinguishable, a performer, a smuggler. Heavy task. But in fact the photographer will tell us that the “real” as JP Sartre wrote “is no more in the real ugly than the real ideally dolled up.” Reality is interpreted and becomes a sensation, a feeling of “truth.” The “real” is as different, as we are.
In the air is the baccalauréat exam (french high school diploma) this week, .
I am surprised by the number of photos that make virtual the “spy” Ed Snowden. Olivier Culmann, the photographer, the man with one hundred hairstyles could give him some lessons. The Japanese also disguise themselves on saturdays to rest, another track for Snowden …
Have a good week.
Michel Philippot
