Anonymous, « Officier fasciste aux deux lapins » (Fascist officer with two rabbits) circa 1920-1930, Gelatine silver bromide on paper. © Musée Nicéphore Niépce.

CHALON-SUR-SAÔNE.- Musée Nicéphore Niépce presents A L'Oeil - A Tribute to Alphonse Allais, on view through January 27, 2008. Worn clodhoppers hanging on a wall, lines of carnival penguins, truncated judicial portraits, humanised animals – some of the photographs in the Nicéphore Niépce museum’s collections seem to question our understanding. Because we lost their original signification, these weird objects redefine the status of photography and question the notions of “use” and “authorship”. Beyond their deceptive initial incoherence, beyond what looks like an inventory of the absurd that reminds us of Alphonse Allais, some see in what appears to be an important and prolific photographic work an immediate and popular poetry, a pool of shapes and forms for Art.

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