Luc Delahaye (born 1962) is a French

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known for his large-scale color works depicting conflicts, world events or social issues. His pictures are characterized by detachment, directness and rich details, a

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approach which is however countered by dramatic intensity and a narrative structure.J. Paul Getty Museum
''Recent History: Photographs by Luc Delahaye. July 31 - November 25, 2007 at the Getty Center.''
Retrieved on 2007-11-04. Delahaye has been awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal twice, the Oskar Barnack Award, an Infinity Award from the

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, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Prix Pictet.

Career

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

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cooperative and ''

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'' magazine (he left Magnum in 2004). He worked during the 1980s and 1990s as a war photographer in Afghanistan, Rwanda, Bosnia, Israel/Palestine, the Gulf, Chechnya, 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. 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. 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". In 2001, Delahaye conducted a radical formal change. Documenting conflicts, political events or social issues, his pictures are made using

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cameras, sometimes edited on computers and are shown in museums. While exploring the boundaries between reality and the imaginary, they constitute documents-monuments of immediate history, and urge reflection "upon the relationships among art, history and information".

Books

* ''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'' (

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, 2011)

Awards

*1992: Robert Capa Gold Medal *2000: Oskar Barnack Award *2001: Infinity Award: Photojournalism,

, New York *2001: Robert Capa Gold Medal *2002: Niepce Prize *2002: Photojournalism prize, Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents *2005: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize *2012: Prix Pictet

Collections

Delahaye's work is held in the following public collections: * Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia * J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles: 2 prints (as of June 2021) *

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, Atlanta * Huis Marseille, Amsterdam *

, New York: 1 print (as of June 2021) *

Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 1961 ...

: 7 prints (as of June 2021) * *

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, Ottawa: 1 print (as of June 2021) *

National Media Museum The National Science and Media Museum (formerly The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1983–2006 and then the National Media Museum, 2006–2017), located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is part of the national Science Museum ...

, Bradford, UK *

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art, modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art ...

, San Francisco: 2 prints (as of June 2021) *

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, UK: 7 prints (as of June 2021)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

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festival (2001) * Völklingen Ironworks (2002) * (2002) * Kunsthalle Rostock (2002) *

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(Rotterdam, 2002) *

(Bradford, 2004) * Huis Marseille (Amsterdam, 2004) *

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(2005) * Sprengel Museum (Hanover, 2006) *''Recent History: Photographs by Luc Delahaye'', J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2007

Group exhibitions

* 2014: ''Conflict, Time, Photography''

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, London, 26 November 2014 – 15 March 2015

Museum Folkwang Museum Folkwang is a major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art in Essen, Germany. The museum was established in 1922 by merging the Essener Kunstmuseum, which was founded in 1906, and the private Folkwang Museum of the collector and patr ...

, Essen, 10 April – 5 July 2015

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, Dresden, Germany, 31 July – 25 October 2015

References

External links

*
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.
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