The Dieuzaide and Spain
By Jean-Jacques Ader
Claude Nougaro warned us: in Toulouse, Spain likes to come back and lift its horn. The pure border shaped by the close by Pyrenees has lengthy attracted hikers and photographers.
Originally of the Fifties, Jean Dieuzaide – who based Le Château d’eau twenty years later – took benefit of an order from Arthaud editions and frolicked in Spain. He would return there typically, producing a number of books – Southern Spain, Northern Spain, Japanese Spain – till his son Michel was sufficiently old to accompany him and was seduced in flip, to later develop his personal initiatives.
The exhibition on the Galerie Ombres Blanches, in addition to the international bookstore part, brings collectively not solely two views however two very completely different eras. Franco’s Spain for Jean, who didn’t come there as a photojournalist, however centered on documenting scenes of life, human encounters, luminous landscapes and villages with austere buildings. Michel, for his half, renews our view of a rustic now dwelling in democracy, and which we nonetheless acknowledge, regardless of the previous years; extra graphic angles, however caressing the identical mild and cherishing the composed and poetic framings. They each keep away from clichés by giving us again this heat nation with apparent black & white photogenicity.
A separate booklet, for the event, brings collectively many of the pictures of the daddy and son, and is accompanied by texts and poetry by Spanish authors; Miguel de Unamuno, Antonio Machado, Luis Cernuda, Federico García Lorca and many others… One other occasion, throughout the closing of the exhibition on October 27, the screening of Michel Dieuzaide’s movie “Le chemin du Rocio”, devoted to this misplaced village in Andalusia, whose pilgrimage permits, throughout a hike, to rediscover each fervor and perception within the alternative to rejoice.
Jean-Jacques Ader
Exhibition “The Spain of the Dieuzaides” on the Galerie Ombres Blanches in Toulouse from September 20 to October 28, 2023 – opening reception and screening of the movie Le chemin de Rocio by Michel Dieuzaide on October 27
Galerie Ombres Blanches
50 Rue Léon Gambetta
31000 Toulouse
www.ombres-blanches.fr
