Michael Fried on Luc Delahaye (link)
Luc Delahaye
Michael Fried babbles on academically, which means, nonsensically about Luc Delahaye, but the article has a lot of the important recent works by Delahaye. I don’t have many contemporary photographers that I really admire, or who’s work I can look at over and over again, but Delahaye is one of them.
He’s recent works are an innovation. Quiet, large format, meditations on moments which are throwaway clichés in our general media lives. He makes us slow down and look closely. This is tied in with the motivations behind my recent work in Bangladesh and the Melancholy series from back in Sydney. He uses photography for what it is good at, staring. He also avoids the purely aesthetic, meaninglessness of Gursky’s large format work. Aesthetics is not enough. Not enough for me at least. I understand Gursky makes good money from what he does. Just like a lot of interior decorators make money from prettying up the walls of the middle class.
If I could pattern my work around anyone, it would be Luc Delahaye. He’s not sentimental about caring.
Click the link in the title.
Posted 2 years ago
