Luc Delahaye

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]

• 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)

• 1992: Robert Capa Gold Medal[2][12]
• 2000: Oskar Barnack Award[3]
• 2001: Infinity Award: Photojournalism, International Center of Photography, New York[4]
• 2001: Robert Capa Gold Medal[12][2]
• 2002: Niepce Prize
• 2002: Photojournalism prize, Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents
• 2005: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize[5]
• 2012: Prix Pictet[6]

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

• Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia[13]
• J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles: 2 prints (as of June 2021)[14]
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta[15][16]
• Huis Marseille, Amsterdam[17]
• International Center of Photography, New York: 1 print (as of June 2021)[18]
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art: 7 prints (as of June 2021)[19]
• Museum Helmond[20]
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa: 1 print (as of June 2021)[21]
• National Media Museum, Bradford, UK[22]
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco: 2 prints (as of June 2021)[23]
• Tate, UK: 7 prints (as of June 2021)[24]

• "A Conversation with Quentin Bajac" (PDF), Galerie Nathalie Obadia.
• Luc Delahaye - Une position dans le réel. Artpress, June 2018.
• World mergers: Michael Fried on Luc Delahaye. ArtForum, March 2006.
• Luc Delahaye on the Getty Museum website.
• Luc Delahaye - Décision d'un instant. Artpress, October 2004.
• Luc Delahaye on ArtFacts.