En mai 2007, alors que Bachar al-Assad est réélu à la tête de la Syrie, l'auteur capte avec ironie l'environnement du portrait du président qui inonde les rues de Damas et invite à réfléchir sur les rapports entre image et pouvoir. ©Electre 2024
Yes to a Rosy future
Falling stylistically somewhere between Oriental Baroque and Soviet monumentalism, the portraits of Bashar al-Assad have long transformed the streets of Syria into a surprising urban landscape. Nicolas Righetti, who regularly photographs totalitarian icons, was in Damascus during the President's last re-election campaign, during which the city fell hostage to veritable visual overkill. He captured these propagandistic images in context and in whatever their state : some even torn, wrinkled or stained. That was in 2007. Since then, Bashar al-Assad's rhetoric has become, sadly, all too familiar. Faced with these portraits of triumphant power, his obdurate statements resound with a brutal cynicism that ultimately reveals a completely different portrait : the smiling face of repression.
Paru le : 28/07/2012
Thématique : Ecrits sur la photographie
Auteur(s) : Auteur (photographe) : Nicolas Righetti
Éditeur(s) :
Trolley books
Work is progress
Collection(s) : Non précisé.
Contributeur(s) : Postfacier : Christian Brändle
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : 978-1-907112-42-3
EAN13 : 9781907112423
Reliure : Cartonné
Hauteur: 16.0 cm / Largeur 16.0 cm
Poids: 401 g
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