At the time of the transition to digital photography, the Canadian photographer Michel Campeau initiates “The Dark Room” series in honor of photographic laboratories. “Untitled No. 0154”, photograph acquired in 2010, is a portrait of an enlarger head. The inscription “La Vie est Ailleurs” (Life is Elsewhere) is the poetic trace left by users of these chambers vowed to disappear.
This work is registered in the inventory of the National Collection of Contemporary Art, that the CNAP has, as its mission, to enrich, preserve and disseminate.
Thanks to Pascal Beausse, head of the photographic collections, and to the teams of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques who have allowed this project to be carried out.Coordination: Communications and Information at CNAP
Translation: L’Œil de la Photographie.
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