Since his beginnings, Philippe Chancel has photographed authoritarian societies. In 2008, he travelled to the United Arab Emirates. In this immense open-air construction site, he discovered features in common with Communist dictatorships: utopia, a cult of personality inducing an invasive iconography, the concentration of power, control over individuals and above all a denial of humanity.

Philippe Chancel focuses on the manner in which these societies display their power.

His photographs seek to demystify this contemporary illusion. The documentary aesthetic, the frontal and distanciated framing, and the absence of any form of emotion precisely indicate the site where the propaganda of ideologies operates: in appearances and pretence. With a text by Quentin Bajac, MoMA's chief curator of photography.

Desert Spirit
Desert Spirit
Desert Spirit
Desert Spirit
Desert Spirit
Desert Spirit
Desert Spirit
Desert Spirit
Desert Spirit
Desert Spirit
Desert Spirit

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Since his beginnings, Philippe Chancel has photographed authoritarian societies. In 2008, he travelled to the United Arab Emirates. In this immense open-air construction site, he discovered features in common with Communist dictatorships: utopia, a cult of personality inducing an invasive iconography, the concentration of power, control over individuals and above all a denial of humanity.

Philippe Chancel focuses on the manner in which these societies display their power.

His photographs seek to demystify this contemporary illusion. The documentary aesthetic, the frontal and distanciated framing, and the absence of any form of emotion precisely indicate the site where the propaganda of ideologies operates: in appearances and pretence. With a text by Quentin Bajac, MoMA's chief curator of photography.

Hardcover

37 × 28,5 cm

128 pages

54 colour photographs

Text

Quentin Bajac

Édition limitée disponible 

ISBN : 978-2-91517-352-9

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