They adorn the walls, dress the elevator doors, appear in monumental installations on the ground floor; on the occasion of the “Paris Venise en tête-à-tête” campaign, anonymous photographs are installed at the Samaritaine department store in Paris, before flying off to the Biennale.
These photographs are those of men and women who lived in the seventies. Neither place, nor date, nor name are specified… it is up to us visitors to observe and imagine more fully these moments of past lives.
To imagine. This is what drives Lee Shulman, to develop “the interpretive experience of the spectator”. A British national, film director, he is also the happy founder and director of this unique collection, called The Anonymous Project. As he explains himself: “It all started when my parents gave me a box of old family photo films that they hadn’t had processed. This sparked an interest in these forgotten images for me, and I began buying them randomly and frantically on eBay. » That was seven years ago, and since then, through his acquisitions and donations which have grown in step with the popularity of the project, he has managed to collect more than 70,000 color slides. A collection that saved “these fragments of history from the obscurity where they were kept and from the tyranny of slide projection” and allowed them to have a new destiny. And not just any one! Here they are today developed and exposed to the eyes of all in this mythical Parisian place, symbol of transmission, history, rehabilitation… so many aspects which echo the philosophy of The Anonymous Project.
