9.23.2010

ALAIN DELORME: Paris Exhibition

Totem #13
Photograph © Alain Delorme/ All rights reserved

Totem #1
Photograph © Alain Delorme/ All rights reserved

Totem #12
Photograph © Alain Delorme/ All rights reserved

Totem #7
Photograph © Alain Delorme/ All rights reserved

Manufactured Totems: Alain Delorme
Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris to Sept 25, 2010

"The new Totems series by Alain Delorme plunges us into the core of contemporary China and its complexity. Under the blue sky of a highly colored Shanghai, men carry throughout the city unbelievable piles. These precarious columns made of cardboard or chairs appear as new totems of a society in complete transformation, both a factory for the world and a new El Dorado of the market economy...read more here by Raphaele Bertho, photo historian)." We hope this exhibition comes to NYC!


3 comments:

Kristin H said...

These are incredible! Hopefully they will be shown in New York as well!

Anonymous said...

ups.. are really useful cars!

Scott Waterman said...

Yeah, these are great and they seem to be getting a lot of well deserved attention.