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Paris Photo 2015

Fair: 12 Nov 2015 – 15 Nov 2015
Opening: 11 Nov 2015

Paris Photo 2015
Anonyme , Homme noir aux lunettes noires, Vers 1960 , © Courtesy Lumière des Roses

Gallery Lumière des Roses explores the vast and fertile field of the anonymous
photography to extract images that the eye, indifferent to the name of the
artist, recognizes for its intrinsic value, its freedom, its evocative power
or any other reason that may remain unnamed.
The Gallery presents an exceptional series of self-portraits made by an
amateur between 1940 and 1970. This set which tells the story of an raw
obsession, subject of a book published by the gallery, Zorro ou le portrait
d’un autre (Zorro or Likeness of Another) accompanied by a text by François
Cheval, Curator of the Museum Nicephore Niepce.

Works

  • Anonyme , Zorro. Autoportrait. Vers 1940. Aristotype. 12 x 9 cm , © Courtesy Lumière des Roses
  • Adrien Tournachon (1825-1903) , Le mime Charles Deburau posant pour la série « Têtes d’expression », France, 1854 , Tirage sur papier salé – 29 x 21,7cm , © Courtesy Lumière des Roses