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Adolphe
Sylvain
Adolphe Sylvain was born in
Paris in the year 1920. He studied engineering at the Ecole Spéciale des
Travaux Publics. He was present at the Normandy landing and took part in
the liberation of Paris. After WWII, he joined General Leclerc in
Indo-China as a war correspondent and eventually ended up traveling to
French Polynesia. he ended up in Tahiti and so enamored he made it his
home.
Drawn by an irrepressible desire to capture his surroundings and to share
this lost, unknown world with those outside of it, he dedicated himself to
photographing the island's many delights. Like Rousseau and Gauguin before
him, he was captive to the people and places of a land so radically
different from his own and chose it as his principal subject matter.
Sylvain's rich, skilled black-and-white images are like visions of an
earthly paradise, peopled with half-clad women wearing flowers in their
hair, the sun reflecting off of their glowing skin. His images, capturing
the timeless beauty of Tahiti, are a testament to the island's powerful
magnetism.
Sylvain's photographic work featured in Tahiti Sylvain is the first
it's been shown since his death in 1991. It's publication is the direct
result of his widow Jeanine-Tehani meeting photographer Gian Paolo
Barbieri, who was so taken with the images that he saw that he took them
back to Europe for publication. Sylvain's work has not met the success it
deserves until now. This is truly a great and wonderful book showcasing
the work of a true artist.
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