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Yesterday was opened in the Municipal Library of Torre-Pacheco photographic exhibition of Jean Dieuzaide CEHIFORM entitled "Photographs of the Region of Murcia, 1951."
This event was attended by Francisco Giménez Gracia, Director General for the Promotion of Culture and the Book of the Autonomous Community of Murcia.
The exhibition will be open from Monday to Friday from 17,30 to 19.30 hours.
This exhibition presents the production of Jean Dieuzaide in relation to the region of Murcia, reveals the painstaking analysis of the specific conditions of human beings in their particular environment, geology, living, exercising trades, customs, through which expressed, and the universality of his picture.
There we met a reporter who wants to document the historic moment of this community, but their eternal moment, if you can call it untraceable while chronologically out of order.
The trip is an essential component of knowledge.
Traveling is a general approach to other areas other than our own.
The approach is very personal territory, which as a rule, find exact parallels in terms of experience is concerned.
However, photographers who travel the world seeking the dream of the "image" have in common that they rely on anything that surprises the senses.
There are many photographers, from the beginning of the creative process, have traveled to the region of Murcia to photograph its society.
All of them, one way or another, are part of our visual culture.
His works bear witness to the evolution of our own history.
In this regard, the General Archive, through the Center for Photographic History of the Region of Murcia (CEHIFORM), insists on the recovery of those prying eyes in order to complete our artistic heritage.
It is with this argument, with which we approach the work of French photographer Jean Dieuzaide.
Work that shows the image of life in Murcia, as it was in the fifties of the twentieth century.
Its clean look, not the topic but it looks different, is an important legacy to know ourselves in truth.
Jean Dieuzaide, using the more generic definition of humanistic photography portrays life by providing an aesthetic image that approaches the exceptional rather than the merely ordinary.
In the words of his son Michel: He saw photography as a means of contact with the world, "with people."
He was a versatile photographer, was interested in everything, and like the writer uses the literature to express their feelings, thoughts, he tried to transcribe through photography.
These documents are artistic prime source to find some facts missing or forgotten over time.
Realities that remain in our minds through these visions and possibly would not exist without them, just being in the memory of those who experienced it firsthand.
The works produced in this exhibition, 75 in total, including 25 personal work (portraits, objects, landscapes and architecture) and 50 images of the region, which offer a visual tour through different locations such as Lorca, Cartagena and Murcia.
Tour that collects essences of the earth.
All of them are a bridge from past to present and prevent the fading generated by time, being immortalized for the future as we were through that eternal gaze Dieuzaide projects in his photographs.
Jean Dieuzaide is sometimes defined as a humanist photographer and even some critics have pointed out that the humanist was developed in their reporting on the Iberian Peninsula.
But it was humanist Dieuzaide here or there.
Age and humanist also felt shooting in France: Lourdes pilgrimage of the shepherds in the Pyrenees, the inhabitants of Toulouse, landscapes, people, objects and the art.
Nothing is further from Jean Dieuzaide the search of exoticism.
He explained it by appealing to their origins.
His father was a postal officer, a humble profession gave just enough to support her family.
Died prematurely and his widow had to move his residence to the field, where she had more opportunities to raise her two children: Jean, the youngest, age 7, and his brother, then a little older.
In this rural environment, little Jean learned how to interact directly and solidarity among families and neighbors of the village.
Therefore, as an adult, in his work as a photographer, dealing with the common people always comfortable and natural.
In your picture we can see that confidence with which he confronts the portrait which is not appreciated or artifice or deception or style resources that could hide the origin of their popular models, even under the classic look of total elegance and dignity.
Jean peasant like the air that surrounds the rural character, that air in and out of the effigy with the naturalness of breath, mingled with the soul.
It was not air farmer who other photographers looking to achieve the description of the costumes and the types of tourist pictures.
Jean did not use that facility in dealing with people for portraits "natural."
And what strange talking to those whom he knew for the first time?
Well ... what they talk about men and women when they cross into the area after hours of walking by yourself: the color of the sky, dry air, the wind has risen, the clouds on the horizon News that brings one to another of the relatives and neighbors ... In simple but interesting things for both.
And in the case of Jean, the photographer, the conversation was the key that opened the way for close observation of facial expressions and gestures of the body of your models, each in connection with the details of his dress, with architecture who lived with the activity carried out and the geological environment in which he found.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco
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