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Photographic exhibition of works by Robert Doisneau, the famous Parisian street photographer.

 

Robert Doisneau, the famous Parisian photographer who is the author of the Kiss's picture, focuses his attention on ordinary people, who live a normal or often marginal existence, couples kissing careless people, and children playing. Paris becomes the center of its work: modest people who are portrayed in their being through the ... do not do daily. Doisneau seeks to ethernalize the fortuitous and imperfect moment of the children as it is the most spontaneous, true, and intimate.

 

"I photographed". All of Doisneau's career could be summed up by a verbal time that is at the same time connotative adjective. Something that has to do with a progressive, dynamic, inaccurate and nostalgic past. Its not a backward search over time, but the desire to capture scenes that may not have time to develop in a certain space. Why chasing the world when the world was already part of his city? Paris becomes the proscenium of his Comédie humaine: modest people who are portrayed in their being through the ... do not do daily. Children full of life and energy jump, do stunts, dance, but also buddies who copy tasks from their companion or who fled after having done some marachella. Doisneau seeks to immortalize the momentous, fortuitous and imperfect moment of the children as more spontaneous, true, and profound. Only the essence of an emotionally engaged moment can become eternal.

 

The French photographer tries to draw the right image - he loves to use the verb instead of hunting because he feels that patience is a fundamental value - he moves with the awareness that atypical can be anywhere that the imperfect can be hide behind an old door. It is fundamental to perceive it, anticipate it and wait for it. Older people become a place to explore, a memory to record, a context - like that of the bistros or the banks of the Seine - that can at any moment offer the fortuitous atypical catapulting us into a strangely familiar and common dimension: that of people normal, wonderfully imperfect. "There are characters and places in the city," concludes Vanni, "although not responding to particular aesthetic canonisms are masculine and attractive. Their unique charm is, probably, imperfect. We admire the beauty, but we love something that stinks us by force and expressive power. The perfect is sublime in the imperfect because our attention focuses on emotions and gestures. Doisneau has discovered the secret of life by pursuing human truth in his beautiful differences and imperfections. 

Data
Dates
8 july/ 11 november 2017
Ticket
€ 10,00
Contacts

Lu.C.C.A. - Lucca Center of Contemporary Art
Via della Fratta, 36  Lucca
www.luccamuseum.com
Tel. +39 0583 492180 info@luccamuseum.com