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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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