beaux livres : photo, architecture, art

Since the mid-1990s, Denis Darzacq has been developing his own personal work.
From press photography, which, like other French photographers of his generation, was the cradle of his artistic practice, he has retained above all a keen eye on contemporary society and a method. Denis Darzacq has become convinced that a constructed image can serve his analysis of society more effectively. Since 2003, he has been using staging techniques based on the principle of “disruption” (a dynamic methodology focused on creation). Through their state or pose, the bodies staged disrupt the established order, without ever tipping the image into the spectacular.
The book presents photographs from the photographer’s major series. These include La chute and Hyper, which contrast two realities without digital manipulation, and Act and Act II, which invite reflection on the complexity of the individual, beyond the assigned and reductive status of disabled person. Finally, Recomposition and Contreformes make the body disappear as the photographs progress, giving way to the artist’s reflection on abstraction.

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