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Marseille 2013 –Olivier Amsellem

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Olivier Amsellem was born in Marseille in 1971. He now lives and works in Paris. Like a deep scar running through his life, he speaks of the paradoxical feelings that appear in his photographs with detachment and fidelity, love and enmity, severity and irony. A nonconformist exile longing for his country, Amsellem delivers a vivid and uncompromising portrait of a working-class city: Marseille, built from the accumulation of time and the appropriation of space. He clearly shows man’s impact on the landscape, how it has been constantly transformed, demolished and rebuilt with nothing to show for it. “Marseille is a dead-end, a city on the sea, facing the land.” People worship the sun as an escape, suntanning their way out of isolation.

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Marseille, by Olivier AMSELLEM
Publisher : be-pôles
64 pages
ISBN : 978-2-917004-18-0
18 €

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