FREELENS Termin

Die Legende lebt weiter......

Lacroix gets it across

By François Barré, Rencontres d’Arles president.

Each new Rencontres brings a fresh batch of surprises, progress and pleasures. Nothing is ever completely predictable – through the grace not of God but of François Hébel, the Rencontres’ incomparable director and imaginative sovereign. Every second year a guest artistic director brings to bear a distinctive eye and talent, unrolling for us an imaginary map stamped with limitless curiosity, friendships made, unmade and remade in Arles, and tributes to those who have shaped and still enrich his life path; not to mention fresh discoveries, with greetings and encouragement to burgeoning talents a fabled patron can help to grow and develop. Martin Parr was fantastic in this role and straight away there came warnings that we would never find his equal; and when Raymond Depardon arrived by a different road entirely, the same experts predicted the extinction of such rare birds. And now, third time round, comes Christian Lacroix, as rare a bird as you can get and born in Arles in 1951...........

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