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Gilbert.adamski.photo.book.fr @ Following the printing of Fifty Missives, there was a year of silence, a pause. So we have just changed vintage, 2025 has started and I return to exhibit the result of small scattered photographic works. (Go …
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It had been thirteen years since I last returned to the Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles. I wanted to go back, I was almost there but suddenly moved away! Strange, isn't it? Here is the explanation for this unexpected boycott. After …What use has the passion for photography been to me? Photography caught me a bit late, and even if my first shutter click was earlier, it was still in June 1979 that I knew I was a photographer and have remained one. I explored the idea in …09/26/2022 In an exhibition of art photographs or paintings, the format is important (1), it alters the perception of the works. The presence or absence of a title is even more significant. I have often observed how the labeling allows one …
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+ 603/19/2022 It barely exceeds the size of a postage stamp or it can entirely cover a building facade. Chick's chirp or voice amplified by a loudspeaker. Everything is a question of format. Concerning the photo, we often talk about …02/07/2022 As if life had suddenly been plunged into a developer, the pandemic would have highlighted realities hitherto indiscernible. People, believe it or not, realized they were living in a squalid, noisy or too small accommodation …04/09/2021 The Esterel massif in the Var department offers landscapes of rare beauty. The red ochre porphyry contributes to revealing the emerald blue of the sea. An artist based in Tourrettes, a village in the Pays de Fayence, carefully …
+ 305/11/2021 In the very first letter published on this site in November 2013, I mentioned Jules Itier, the customs receiver who was commissioned to produce a photographic report by Louis-Philippe, the last King of the French, who reigned …March 19, 2021 Light often reaches us through the thoughts of others. We readily embrace it because it reveals what was already within us. Imagine a ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds and sneaking through the closed shutters of a …01/13/2021 The opportunity to talk about photography is not so often given to us in this world yet saturated with images. The other day, and it is nice, on France Culture a photographer was invited whose curriculum vitae details that she …Gilbert Adamski-Duflot (G.A.D) Photographer One day in June 1979 in Nice, I dubbed myself a photographer. An Inspiring City Appointed to a position in Nice on June 1, 1979, I began searching for images capable of conveying my wonder of …Tribute to Pierre Debauche, this great theater man and Agen figure, who passed away on December 23, 2017. Ah God how beautiful the war is! Taking advantage of the freedom the summer festival provides, I took out my camera... " In 1914 my …11/07/2020 " Photography has become the preferred means of expression for an entire generation of artists " " Russia in Focus " documentary film by Alexander Abaturov, a young Russian director, aired on ARTE a few weeks ago. In 2017, it …09/17/2020 I would be surprised to learn that even once, by chance, my mother or father ever took a photo. At home, there was never a camera. My parents were content with those they were kindly given. They kept them in a shoebox with …08/24/20 N 39 - On the return train last week, I was looking at the tiny screen of my phone, at the image you sent me of your bare breast. A modest, static, and too demure photo, almost solemn. Could I have photographed you differently …05/28/20 N38 - I only remembered Bruce Davidson for his color shots in the New York City subway. I had the opportunity to see those photos at the Municipal Gallery of the Château d'Eau in Toulouse a long time ago. This morning I randomly …03/29/20 My generation, "my generation," had not experienced war in France, and then the world started to heat up, and the planet warmed up. With talent and risk-taking, photojournalists reported on the battles on various grounds where …12/12/2019 Christian Boltanski is a contemporary artist whose work speaks to me. He is not so much a visual artist as a whistleblower; he denounces the evanescence of time and the fear of forgetting the humble. I had the opportunity to see …09/12/2019 It's a large format technical chamber but viewed from the side it could be a super bandonéon, with the bellows stretched wide to make the tango dance. I look from the location of the sensitive plate and see at the end of the …08/08/2019 I have kept to myself a phrase spoken by a photographer during a random channel surfing: "The photo shows me what I am looking for." This statement strikes me, I obviously share this appreciation. I have a large stock of digital …04/10/2019 One of my "visitors," exhibited several times, stood bare-skinned before a painting by Gustave Courbet ("The Sleep" 1866*). Is that why I was given the little book by Claude Schopp entitled "The Origin of the World"? The …11/29/2018 Recently, the actress Annie Duperey recounted to the journalist Augustin Trapenard, an epiphanic scene. The first time she held a camera equipped with a telephoto lens, she discovered that suddenly everything in the viewfinder …09/13/2018 Today, the mobile phone has permeated the entire society, from the beggar sitting in front of the supermarket to the owner of a large yacht moored in a luxury marina. If this is not a sign of successful social cohesion, it is …06/04/2018 I invented the photophones. I presented them for the first time as a series at "COULEURS EN LOIRE". (Whitsun 2018). Neologism The word "photophone" that I had coined to describe my silent instruments was an opportunity for many …
