For the first time, Studio Willy Rizzo is presenting a retrospective of thirty-four original photographs from Willy Rizzo’s reportages from Indochina in 1950 and 1952. Sent to cover the “incidents” in 1952, Willy Rizzo worked with a Leica equipped with a thirty-five-millimetre lens, two Rolleiflexes, four electronic flashes with extension cables, a Linhof with an eighty-millimetre lens and a tripod. He dramatised the conflict, the war was nothing but a succession of moments of preparation and waiting. His photos displeased and irritated the high command, which considered them “spectacular”. Yet his photos are a reflection of the period, the places, the history. Willy Rizzo photographed the French army but also the towns, the faces, the Caodaists, the prisoners in spite of the interdiction, the tension at the time of the curfew…
La guerre d’Indochine de Willy Rizzo : Un photographe à contre-emploi
From 21st September to 1st December 2017
Studio Willy Rizzo
12 Rue de Verneuil
75007 Paris
France
