Saywho announces the opening of Saywho Gallery, the first digital gallery dedicated to society photography about the rich and famous .
This space has been dedicated to this phenomenon from its inception up to the present day, using both its journalism and its artistic resources.
This platform offers for sale numbered and signed prints by the photographers on show. For its first edition, Saywho Gallery presents an exhibition of Philippe Morillon and his documentation of the “disorderly” life of the 80s.
8 Women of the 80s: the fashionable interpretation of his time by Philippe Morillon.
“A golden age of Parisian nightlife: it’s with eight portraits of women (of the world… and of this world of the 80s, in reference to a film by François Ozon, and not to the new women of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, as you all would have thought), that I chose arbitrarily to make a micro visual history of a micro society, the one to which I belonged. The more these photographs age, the further away the times when they were shot, the more interesting they are, these images of my nights as a “trendy” young artist, commonplace in their day, have become magic; like the photographs of Eugène Atget, simple documentary photographer of the 19th century, that have become artistic thanks to the surrealists of the following century. I lived in a sort of enchanted parenthesis, a beautiful time that, in contrast to the harshness of recent times, attracts the youngsters and those who look back nostalgically. It’s as much the “Ball of Guermantes” effect on the wrinkles of the survivors as the loads of fashion details and the attitudes of another time that catch the eye and present the portrait of a society that disappeared forty years ago.”
Philippe Morillon
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