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Frank Horvat
J’aime le strip tease
Editions Rencontre, Lausanne 1962
Photobook
Hardcover, 200 p.
20 × 13,5 cm
Texts in French
Texts by Patrick Lindermohr
Photos by Frank Horvat
In 1962, Frank Horvat published J'aime le strip-tease (I Love Striptease). This series depicts three elements in a very simple way and with a great economy of graphic means: darkness, light and the body.
These photographs reflect a typically ‘Aristotelian’ vision, with a pre-eminence of sensory qualities, in the sense that they relate more to sensation than to vision itself. It is said that Aristotle observed, during a solar eclipse, that the patches of light forming on the ground in the shade of the foliage took the shape of a crescent. He deduced that these spots were in fact images of the sun and thus discovered the phenomenon of the camera obscura. It is this same light, passing through the leaves of trees, that we also find in Renoir's Bal du moulin de la Galette and in many Impressionist paintings. One could say that with these photographs by Frank Horvat, we move from the camera obscura to the nightclub and find ourselves inside it, observing directly what is happening there, as if delivered to pure sensation.
This second-hand publication bears small traces of its previous life.
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