Sensation

And what if photography would never get a chance to get elevated to the level of major arts because “the movement”, which is fundamental to all of them, including the seventh art, is in principle, foreign to photography ? Would then getting to the top in photography imply getting back to its own ontology which would be statics, the opposite of movement ?

The work of Philippe Dureuil reconciles us with photography. Have we praised enough “the” life that “inhabited” the negatives of such-and-such photographers? And how many of those do we count who did strive to always reproduce the living “vibration” ? What I do like in Dureuil’s landscapes, people, inanimated objects, or anything else is the fact that they do stop, freeze, become petrified. What I do like is that his photography really captures the moment.

Paul Giro

Tarpaulin size 660 cm x 250 cm printed by Multiplast.
This work has been displayed in 2003 on the premises of the Idoine group in Paris.