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Close-up Festival: Exhibition The Deadly Beauty of Cinemas / Indian Travellings
Culture · Saturday, October 10 · 09:00 · Paris
Médiathèque Marguerite Duras, 115, rue de Bagnolet
Free
Simon Edelstein is a photographer who has been travelling the world since 2006 in search of old cinemas. About 150,000 images attest to this insatiable and affectionate quest, oscillating between rapture and nostalgia. The deadly beauty of cinemas Simon Edelstein's photographs conjure a loss: ruin or disfigurement. They arise uniquely from what Roland Barthes identified as the essence of all photography: what has been. What is no longer; many of these abandoned cinemas have disappeared. Or is it different, often for the worse — so many cinemas disfigured and reduced to others…
