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Untitled 08, Nanterre
2006
Denis Darzacq
Photography
73,5 x 108,5 cm
Gelatin-silver print on aluminium
Employing no digital effects, this fascinating series captures hip hop and capoeira dancers suspended in mid-air, like modern-day fallen angels. The figures portrayed in the act of leaping are metaphors for the energy and existential instability of young people in the suburbs.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Employing no digital effects, this fascinating series captures hip hop and capoeira dancers suspended in mid-air, like modern-day fallen angels. The figures portrayed in the act of leaping are metaphors for the energy and existential instability of young people in the suburbs.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Denis Darzacq
France
Born in 1961
Born 1961 in Paris
Lives and works in Paris.
He has acted as unit photographer for film directors Chantal Ackerman and Jacques Rivette, made video clips for a hundred or so musicians, from Rita Mitsouko to Etienne Daho, and worked for years as a photojournalist for the French newspaper Libération. Informed by this intense professional activity and pictorial influences as diverse as Pop Art, Italian Mannerist painting and Japanese mangas, Denis Darzacq combines social documentary photography and artistic mise en scène in his exuberant snapshots on the theme of bodily movement in urban areas.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Lives and works in Paris.
He has acted as unit photographer for film directors Chantal Ackerman and Jacques Rivette, made video clips for a hundred or so musicians, from Rita Mitsouko to Etienne Daho, and worked for years as a photojournalist for the French newspaper Libération. Informed by this intense professional activity and pictorial influences as diverse as Pop Art, Italian Mannerist painting and Japanese mangas, Denis Darzacq combines social documentary photography and artistic mise en scène in his exuberant snapshots on the theme of bodily movement in urban areas.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
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Denis Darzacq
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