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Francesco Zizola Né quelque part

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Robert Delpire

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This inventory of the misery and misery of childhood is not an exhortation to brandish the idea of human rights - an idea that is now too old, too used, a thousand times overused and erroneously erected, through, more often than rightly, broken to the defence of everything and anything. First, it refers us to our contradictions - contradictions of Westerners who most often consider childhood as the embodiment of a chimerical ideal of angelism or purity, and who close their eyes. But it mostly shows our bad conscience. The bad conscience of ignorance, abandonment and violence against these children. Francesco Zizola's images tacitly denounce the universal reign of the bestial, inhuman power, that of the strongest, the powerful, the pitiless: the fierce power to harm and enslave, the power to kill. And beyond our moral duty as adults, our humanity alone should enjoin us to protect them. Not because it is up to us to preserve an angels' utopia, but because it is simply up to us to defend the weakest.

Caroline Milic

 

We read and we say a lot, in specialized newspapers and in meetings where we talk, that photography has evolved considerably, that yesterday's photography has nothing to do with today's one.

I have a completely different view. I am well aware of this shift from narrative to conceptual, of the effort that some photographers make to advance on the soapy board of pure aestheticism. I don't think we can ignore the differences between film and digital, but I'm convinced that the deep nature of photographers hasn't changed. That there have been, since the turn of the century, photographers with a keen eye and a tender heart, photographers whose vocation is not to adorn the walls of museums by tapping on the calabash of self-satisfaction, but to show, by using the revealer of truth that is the film, how hard man is for man, and for the little ones of man, how one can lack bread and affection to die from it.

No, the picture hasn't changed. Lewis Hine, Jacob Riis, they have a brother, his name is Francesco Zizola.

Robert Delpire

Francesco Zizola Born somewhere

Introduction by Caroline Milic. Postface by Robert Delpire.

85 black and white photographs

27.2 x 23 cm

200 pages - bound under jacket

ISBN : 2-85107-218-8

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2017-11-27

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