ARCHIVES – July 1, 2020
We are not going to bullshit you about the “genesis” of the work of Art but to get into the rough immediately – Here is what was “my” basis of reflection which presided over “my” photographic campaign “Hexagon” (“mine “Because there were two of us on the spot.)
IT IS WRITTEN in the book of Exodus: ” You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below ”. (Exodus 20.4 and Leviticus 26.1)
Reflections on a world of images; ours approached with “PHOTOGRAPHS” with a reflexive working methodology. Can we reconcile the two? Can we draw up an observation or provoke a reflection / interrogation on the world in the making?
Is appearance a Liberation or a new imprisonment?
Images of naked women “FEMEN” diverted from their primary meaning the desire, to claim a political status.
Two categories of French is a bias – can we mark both = philosophy Aristotle and Plato – Saint Augustin and Thomas d’Aquin
Spirit and Flesh
Intelligence and appearance
The rest in pictures…
Yan Morvan
Yan Morvan’s journey
Yan Morvan, born in 1954, after studying mathematics and cinema, shot stories on the Hells Angels and in 1974 published his first photograph in Liberation. He published his first book on rockers in 1976, the beginnings of 20 years of gang work. He joined the Paris-Match staff and then the Figaro Magazine until 1980. From 1980 to 1988, he covered the main conflicts (Iran- Iraq, Rwanda, Kosovo, etc.) within the Sipa agency and became one of the great specialists in war photography, crowned with the Robert Capa Award in 1983 for his work in Lebanon and two World Press Photo awards. In 1981, his photo of Lady Di’s wedding went around the world. He continues reporting on substantive subjects such as suburbs, gangs, victims of war, the battlefields by fully immersing himself in these different environments.
He is represented by Galerie Sit Down in Paris.
