Special envoy to Arles
Among the exhibitions being held this summer in Arles until September 25, many have opted for thematic form, the ubiquitous questions of identity and gender and documentary exploration... Without always avoiding the seriousness of the course and the weight of dogma .
The others stand out all the better, artists above all.
Here is our selection.
Mitch Epstein at Montmajour Abbey
Between 1978 and 1989, the American Mitch Epstein made eight trips to India and took thousands of photographs.
"I would say that my life there made me gain in humility, when my status as a middle-class white man born after the war did not predispose me to it"
, simply admits this great photographer, born in 1952 in Holyoke (Massachusetts), which revised its contact sheets from then for this limited but superb hanging at Montmajour Abbey.
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