Luc Delahaye

Luc Delahaye (born 1962) is a French photographer known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His pictures are characterized by detachment, directness and rich details, a documentary approach which is however countered by dramatic intensity and a narrative structure.[1]

Delahaye has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal twice,[2] the Oskar Barnack Award,[3] an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography,[4] the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize[5] and the Prix Pictet.[6]

Career

Delahaye started his career as a photojournalist. He joined the photo agency Sipa Press in the mid-1980s and dedicated himself to war reporting. In 1994, he joined the Magnum Photos cooperative and Newsweek magazine (he left Magnum in 2004).[2] He worked during the 1980s and 1990s as a war photographer in Afghanistan, Rwanda, Bosnia, Israel/Palestine, the Gulf,[7] Chechnya,[8] and Lebanon. His photography was characterized by its raw, direct recording of news and often combined a perilous closeness to events with an intellectual detachment in the questioning of his own presence.[2][9] This concern was later mirrored in minimalist series published as books, notably Portrait/1, a set of photobooth portraits of homeless people and L'Autre, a series of candid portraits made with a hidden camera in the Paris subway.[7] With Winterreise, he explored the social consequences of the economic depression in Russia, "travelling from Moscow to Vladivostok, during which he spent months in the hovels of Russia's underclass".[7] In 2001, Delahaye conducted a radical formal change.[2] Documenting conflicts, political events or social issues, his pictures are made using large or medium format cameras, sometimes edited on computers and are shown in museums.[2] While exploring the boundaries between reality and the imaginary,[10] they constitute documents-monuments of immediate history,[11] and urge reflection "upon the relationships among art, history and information".[1]

Books

  • Portraits/1 (Sommaire, 1996)
  • Memo (Hazan, 1997)
  • L'Autre (Phaidon, 1999)
  • Winterreise (Phaidon, 2000)
  • Une Ville (Xavier Barral, 2003)
  • History (Chris Boot, 2003)
  • Luc Delahaye 2006–2010 (Steidl, 2011)

Awards

Collections

Delahaye's work is held in the following public collections:

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

References

  1. J. Paul Getty Museum. Recent History: Photographs by Luc Delahaye. July 31 - November 25, 2007 at the Getty Center. Retrieved on 2007-11-04.
  2. O'Hagan, Sean (9 August 2011). "Luc Delahaye turns war photography into an uncomfortable art". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  3. "Winner 2000: Luc Delahaye - LOBA". Winner 2000: Luc Delahaye - LOBA. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  4. "2001 Infinity Award: Photojournalism". International Center of Photography. 23 February 2016. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  5. Searle, Adrian (6 April 2005). "What are you doing here?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
  6. "Mohamed Bourouissa". Prix Pictet. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  7. Lennon, Peter (31 January 2004). "The big picture". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  8. "Snapshot: 'Le Village' by Luc Delahaye". Financial Times. Retrieved 2021-06-07.
  9. Weski, T.: Click/Double-Click, page 44. Walther König, 2006. ISBN 3-86560-054-9.
  10. Luc Delahaye: Snap Decision. Interview by Philippe Dagen. Art Press, issue 306, December 2004.
  11. Chevrier, J.F.: Click/Double-Click, page 59. Walther König, 2006. ISBN 3-86560-054-9
  12. Richards, Roger (August 2004). "View from the Photo Desk: Luc Delahaye". The Digital Journalist. Retrieved 2016-06-18. he received the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal (2002 & 1993)
  13. "Taliban". chrysler.emuseum.com. Retrieved 2021-06-05.
  14. "Luc Delahaye (French, born 1962) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  15. "Taliban". High Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  16. "Jenin Refugee Camp #1". High Museum of Art. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  17. "About the collection". Huis Marseille. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  18. "Luc Delahaye". International Center of Photography. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  19. "Luc Delahaye". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  20. "Museum Helmond". Museum Helmond. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  21. "Luc Delahaye". National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  22. "'Kabul Road', by Luc Delahaye, 2001". collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-06-06.
  23. "Delahaye, Luc". SFMOMA. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  24. Tate. "Luc Delahaye born 1962". Tate. Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  25. "Recent History: Luc Delahaye (Getty Center Exhibitions)". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2023-07-08.
  26. "Conflict, Time, Photography". Tate Modern. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  27. "Conflict, Time, Photography". Museum Folkwang. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
  28. "Conflict, Time, Photography". Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
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