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Inkjet print
cm 30,5 x 46 (cm 28 x 42 picture) | 12 x 18 in. (11 x 16.5 in. picture)
Signed in black ink with photographer's credit blind stamp on the white inferior recto margin
In Antananarivo Pierrot Men is not only known for his large studio-workshop, but also for being unanimously considered the greatest photographer in Madagascar. His were the beginnings of a painter who then decided to devote himself to photography, having realised that the results in this field were much better. Although he initially also shot in colour, later abandoned due to the impossibility of controlling the results as he knows how to do so well in the darkroom, Pierrot Men chooses black and white to document the daily life of the Madagascan population that he shoots, always putting man at the centre of his interests. He does this with apparent simplicity, but also with a complicit gaze indicating the strong link with his land. Although he has had exhibitions mainly in France and the United States, Japan and Italy, it is in Madagascar that he continues to work consistently.
cm 30,5 x 46 (cm 28 x 42 picture) | 12 x 18 in. (11 x 16.5 in. picture)
Signed in black ink with photographer's credit blind stamp on the white inferior recto margin
In Antananarivo Pierrot Men is not only known for his large studio-workshop, but also for being unanimously considered the greatest photographer in Madagascar. His were the beginnings of a painter who then decided to devote himself to photography, having realised that the results in this field were much better. Although he initially also shot in colour, later abandoned due to the impossibility of controlling the results as he knows how to do so well in the darkroom, Pierrot Men chooses black and white to document the daily life of the Madagascan population that he shoots, always putting man at the centre of his interests. He does this with apparent simplicity, but also with a complicit gaze indicating the strong link with his land. Although he has had exhibitions mainly in France and the United States, Japan and Italy, it is in Madagascar that he continues to work consistently.
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