La surface et la chair: Madame d'Ora, Vienne-Paris, 1907-1957. Philosophie The exhibition is a window

The exhibition is a window onto a China at its zenith

Beyond his technical virtuosity

had such a wide resonance that it determined

And that's not right

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La surface et la chair: Madame d'Ora, Vienne-Paris, 1907-1957. Philosophie The exhibition is a windowWhat could be more exceptional in the history of photography than the coexistence, in the same artist, of practices covering apparently antagonistic fields: that of fashion and that of documentary activity? Between the recording, often considered futile, of the surface and the ornaments that cover it (choice of clothing, valorization of the beauty and glamour of the models) and that of the miseries of the world, of bodies, including in their rawest