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Luc Delahaye Biography

Photographer

Luc Delahaye, born in 1962, is a renowned photographer known for his unique perspective and exquisite use of light and shadow. His work spans various fields, including art, fashion, and documentary photography.

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“There is something beautiful about photography; it allows the self to be reunited with the world.”

World Self Beautiful Photography Something Beautiful Reunited

Author:Luc Delahaye

“Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.”

Want Enough Artist Poet What You Want Being An Artist

Author:Luc Delahaye

“If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality.”

Ifs Mean Has Beens Enough Reality Understanding Powerful Obscure Coherence

Author:Luc Delahaye

“There is the refusal of style and the refusal of sentimentalism, there is this desire for clarity.”

Desire Style Clarity Refusal

Author:Luc Delahaye

“I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference.”

Want Heart Moments Shows Body Views Effort Events Distance Point Of View Disappear Borders Indifference Visuals Introducing Taboo

Author:Luc Delahaye

“I was twenty when I discovered war and photography. I can't say that I wanted to bear witness and change the world. I had no good moral reasons: I just loved adventure, I loved the poetry of war, the poetry of chaos, and I found that there was a kind of grace in weaving between the bullets.”

World Kind I Can War Reason Wanted Found Moral Grace Adventure Bears Photography Twenties Chaos Witness Changing The World Bullets Weaving Good Moral

Author:Luc Delahaye

“The denunciation of suffering by photography has replaced the religious justification of suffering in painting. Denunciation is a function of photojournalism, and in itself that's a step in the right direction.”

Suffering Religious Steps Painting Photography Function Justification Replaced Right Direction Photojournalism Steps In The Right Direction

Author:Luc Delahaye

“Photojournalism is neither photography or journalism. It has its function but it's not where I see myself: the press is for me just a means for photographing, for material – not for telling the truth.”

Mean Materials Photography Function Presses Journalism Telling The Truth Photojournalism

Author:Luc Delahaye

“You have to record as many details as possible and achieve an order, without taking away the complexity of the real. To voice the real and at the same time to create an image that is a world in itself, with its own coherence, its autonomy and sovereignty; an image that thinks”

Thinking World Real Order Voice Records Achieve Details Complexity Sovereignty Autonomy Coherence

Author:Luc Delahaye

About the Author

Born: 1962
Known for: Photographer
Quotes: 9

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