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About the French photographer Luc DELAHAY (* 1962 in Tours).
Luc DELAHAYE worked as a war photographer since 1989. For several years he was a member of the Magnum photo agency. In his publication 'History' (2003) he published photos documenting his departure from photojournalism. Moving in the same thematic area as before - the trouble spots of our time in the Middle East, Palestine and Eastern Europe - he now creates a few large-format tableaus that capture a historical situation in the tradition of history painting. His aesthetic is still committed to the means of photojournalism, but the individual shot, starting from the moment depicted, leads to an understanding of its historical significance.
Photobooks by Luc DELAHAYE
- 'Mémo' (1997); 'Winterreise' (2000); 'Une ville. Le quartier du Mirail à Toulouse' (2003); 'History' (2003); 'Découverture' (2006, with François Weyergans, François Dagognet, Peter Greenaway).
Solo exhibitions (a selection)
- 2003: 'History', Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, N.Y.;
2004: 'History', The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; 'Fragments of History', Huis Marseille, Amsterdam; 'History' and 'Winterreise', National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK;
2005: La Maison Rouge, Paris;
2006: Sprengel Museum, Hanover;
Group exhibitions (a selection)
- 2000: Le temps déborde", Forum Culturel de Seine St Denis, Blanc-Mesnil; "Angaende Fotoautomaten", FotoKunst Museet, Odense;
2001: "In a lonely place", National Media Museum, Bradford; "Puissance de l'Anonyme", Les Rencontres Internationales de Photographie, Arles; "Connivence", Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Lyon;
2002: "Fragilités", Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse;
2003: "Geometrie des Gesichts", Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Kopenhagen; "Now. Images of Present Time", Mois de la Photo, Montreal; "Strangers", ICP Triennial. Internationales Zentrum für Fotografie, New York;
2004: "Historias", PHE04, Madrid;
2005: "Emergencies", Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon; "Deutsche Börse Photography Prize", The Photographer's Gallery, London; "Les Grands Spectacles", Museum der Moderne Salzburg; "Singuliers", Guangdong Museum of Art;
2006: "Tunnel Vision", Fotomuseum Antwerpen; "Big Bang", Centre Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris; "Click-Double-click", Haus der Kunst, München & Palais des Beaux Arts, Brüssel; "The Culture of Fear", Federkiel Stiftung, Leipzig; "Wanderland", Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld; "Aura der Fotografie: Das Bild als Objekt", Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville;
2007: 'Augenzeugen', Kulturzentrum Seedamm, Pfaffikon; 'Dokumente, Erinnerung an die Zukunft', MARCO, Vigo; Krakauer Fotomonat; 'Artist's Choice', Institut Néerlandais, Paris; 'Kopf an Kopf. Serielle Porträtfotografie", Kunsthalle Tübingen;
2008: "Panoramaszenen", Centre de la Photographie de Genève; "Zwischen Erinnerung und Geschichte: Vom Epischen zum Alltäglichen", MOCCA, Toronto;
2009: "Mi Vida. Vom Himmel zur Hölle", Mücsarnok, Budapest; "Questioning History", Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam;
2010: "Peinlichkeit des Reichtums: Picturing Global Wealth", The Minneapolis Institute of Arts;
2011: "In camera and in public", Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne; "The Unseen Eye", George Eastman House, Rochester; "Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth", Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City; "New Documentary Forms", TATE Modern, London;
2012: "Hors les murs", Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brüssel; "Making History", MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst & Frankfurter Kunstverein; "The History of War Photography", Houston Museum of Fine Arts; "La Triennale. Intense Proximité", Palais de Tokyo, Paris; "Viewpoint", Huis Marseille, Amsterdam; "Power", Saatchi Gallery, London; "Seduced by Art", The National Gallery, London;
2013: "Lens Drawing", Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris; "Sous influences", La Maison Rouge, Paris; "Histoire: regard d'artistes", Hôtel des Arts, Toulon; "Damage Control - Art and Destruction Since 1950", Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.;
2014: "Une Photographie sous tension", Musée Nicéphore Nièpce, Chalons-sur-Saône; "Les Désastres de la guerre", Louvre-Lens; Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles; "Le Mur", La Maison Rouge, Paris; "Une Histoire. Kunst, Architektur, Design in den 80er Jahren bis heute", MNAM Centre Pompidou, Paris;