Alain Delorme, Manufactured Totems
wonderfully surreal photographs of working class Shanghai...
10th September, 2010
Looking very much like photo-realistic paintings, these are actually photographs from the brilliantly talented Parisian, Alain Delorme… whether these are elegantly photoshopped or have been rather impressively staged, the one thing that’s a dead-cert is that their alluring beauty is wonderfully mystifying. Evolving from the photographer’s fascination with Chinese workers and their uneasily stacked delivery bikes, this magical collection of images from Shanghai is currently showing at Paris’ Magda Danysz gallery, running until the 25th of this month…
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Johnxx
October 9th, 2010
Cool, as soon as they fall from his bike, all the same what are resourceful people of Asian appearance, to such a smart enough, at first laughed long, long time )))))
aidia
February 5th, 2011
great….hard work….
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mx
May 15th, 2011
love it. are the colors heavily processed? looks way too good to be real..
Rondo1917
December 5th, 2011
it is reality in china, many people work hard just for a piece of bread, for a bowl of hot spoun…..nothing can be expected ……..
Rondo1917
December 5th, 2011
i am a chinese , it is commom scenery in most of china city ,downtown,CBD,or other place,it is the working class life ,hard working ,but bad payment,while they have to do it ,for if not ,they will be in hungry and no one will show mercy on they especially the rich …