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Bellaïche, “Isabelle Hupper”, La Martinière Editeur. Exhibition from 14 November 2019 to 17 January 2020, Galerie 12, 14 rue des jardins Saint Paul 75004.
This beautiful book evokes the photographer-model relationship and the rare friendship between a photographer and an actress bewitching by her intelligence and playfulness.
Carole Bellaïche through her catches tries to understand the mystery of the one who is for many a myth and a heroine of our time.
The first photos date from 1993 and the ensemble bears witness to twenty-five years of encounters where the intimate meets the universal. The book is the one the photographer has been dreaming of for a long time: “Her face, which is so familiar to me now, always surprises me, seduces me, and fills me with joy in this permanent and obsessive search for the ideal and beauty,” Carole Bellaiche admits.
She met her through the “Cahiers du cinéma. For the magazine she went to Lausanne where the actress played a man under the direction of Bob Wilson: Orlando. One year later, she really discovered her when the magazine was preparing its “special editor-in-chief” issue of the actress. Since then the complicity has never ceased. It was, according to the photographer, “love at first sight”.
Isabelle Hupper asked him to photograph her as Marlène Dietrich because Louis Malle wanted to make a film (which never saw the light of day) about the German actress. And each series is a different moment. She revealed the relationship of the female muse to the photo and it was now the moment to reveal these almost secret episodes.
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