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 documentary 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 The Robert Capa Gold Medal is an award for "best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise". It is awarded annually by the Overseas Press Club of America (OPC). It was created in honor of the war photo ...

twice, the Oskar Barnack Award, an Infinity Award from the

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, the

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and the

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Career

Delahaye started his career as a photojournalist. He joined the photo agency

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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

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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'' (

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, 2003) * ''Luc Delahaye 2006–2010'' (

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, 2011)

Awards

*1992:

*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 The Bayeux Calvados-Normandy Award for war correspondents (French: Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie des correspondants de guerre), previously the Bayeux-Calvados Awards for war correspondents, is an annual prize awarded since 1994, by the city of Ba ...

*2005:

*2012:

Collections

Delahaye's work is held in the following public collections: * Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk *

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, Los Angeles: 2 prints (as of June 2021) *

High Museum of Art The High Museum of Art (colloquially the High) is the largest museum for visual art in the Southeastern United States. Located in Atlanta, Georgia (on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district), the High is 312,000 square feet (28, ...

, 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 19 ...

: 7 prints (as of June 2021) * *

National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada (french: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's national art museum. The museum's building takes up , with of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the ...

, 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 G ...

, Bradford, UK *

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and wa ...

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

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, UK: 7 prints (as of June 2021)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Rencontres d'Arles The Rencontres d’Arles (formerly called ''Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles'') is an annual summer photography festival founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, the writer Michel Tournier and the historia ...

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

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(Rotterdam, 2002) *

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

Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is an art museum in Cleveland, Ohio, located in the Wade Park District, in the University Circle neighborhood on the city's east side. Internationally renowned for its substantial holdings of Asian and Egyptian ...

(2005) *

Sprengel Museum Sprengel Museum is a museum of modern art in Hanover, Lower Saxony, holding one of the most significant collections of modern art in Germany. It is located in a building situated adjacent to the Masch Lake (german: Maschsee) approximately south ...

(Hanover, 2006) *

(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;

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (, ''Dresden State Art Collections'') is a cultural institution in Dresden, Germany, owned by the State of Saxony. It is one of the most renowned and oldest museum institutions in the world, originating from the ...

, Dresden, Germany, 31 July – 25 October 2015.

References

External links

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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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