Oct 5, 2019
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Diane Ducruet
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Lion
Diane Ducruet
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(via Paris Festival Censors Photo of Mother-Daughter Embrace)
A photograph of a mother and her young daughter embracing has been removed from a gallery exhibition in Paris after seven anonymous letters prompted the gallerist and the director of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) to censor the work.
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Washing glasses in the sink and the first thing she knew was this dull click, like a tongue, under the soap suds. The foam pinked. Now she could see blood smoking from the flap of skin, and it was over, clearly, out in the open: holding water, feeling nothing. —Robin Robertson, “The Break” Photography Credit Diane Ducruet
Diane Ducruet uses photography for something else.
What she’s showing is evident, but from the other side of the mirror.
Helmut Newton said that he photographed only appearances. He acknowledged his own self interest and used his fabulous talent for organizing light and shadow to announce his presence to the world to make us feel as he felt. His models let themselves be pulled into the adventure because they knew they would leave the usual path of their existence and be propelled into a game where seduction battles with obscenity. A woman spends half of her life never forgetting she can be an object; society wants her that way. Diane’s photographs are not these types of self-portraits or even less a proof of technical competency. They are also not a pretext to re-visit the world of images or more naively the history of art. Looking at her photographs, we are standing in front of quiet alternatives : This is not her looking at herself, but here are others she’s showing through.
As Goya made the Spanish queen become the witch of a political sabbath, Diane uses her body and being as a representation of the Sabbath of society. She shows life’s pastimes as fate. Diane becomes what nobody wants to see.
Those who can’t see themselves won’t see her. Because to be oneself, one also needs to be elsewhere. » Milou - About the «Selfportraits» - 2003