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Not so long ago, Paris still offered a humanist face

2020-10-28T17:51:22.027Z


Between humor and tenderness, “Macadam Paname”, the book by photographer Laurent Delhourme, shows the capital and its inhabitants in the time of freedom. A breath of fresh air.


It is a Paris which today only exists in this book.

A Paris with Parisians who snort in freedom, far from the virus and confinements.

Behind the lens, Laurent Delhourme, who returns to a practice that has disappeared: take your camera as you grab your jacket, systematically, as soon as you step outside, and roam the city to capture what surprises the eye.

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For his book

Macadam Paname

, he

followed

in the footsteps of the famous

street photographers

of the 20th century.

He captures humor like Elliott Erwitt, tenderness like Cartier-Bresson, not so banal banality like Garry Winogrand… He deliberately chose black and white.

And Paris.

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Not for its architectural beauties, its lines, its lights, even if they serve the subject damn well, but for the humans it shelters.

"I have been a fan of humanist photography since my beginnings

," says Laurent Delhourme, born 52 springs ago in Bordeaux.

I like to take an innocuous scene and make a photo of it

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Source: lefigaro

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