The eternal youth of David Seidner

In his work David Seidner proclaims loud and clear a visceral idealism, strangely coincident with the America of the end of the 50’s he was born in. The ethereal beauty of the bodies and faces he celebrates is freed from all kind of temporality, a stamp – for the one who can grasp it – of a subtle work wherein the technical nature of the shot is disappearing behind the fascinating authenticity of the subjects.
Impressed by a classicism of no artistic movement, Seidner seeks for perfection, a form of hedonism crossing time with the Greek Antiquity kouros, with Michelangelo’s David or Ingres’ portraits, deprived of the mannerism or the poses that influence rules and styles.
No one ever can tell if David Seidner, who died too soon at the age of 42, leaving an unaccomplished work, has ever reached his vision of a perfect mankind, this quest for the fountain of youth or that comeback to Eden.

Henry CHAPIER

Photography :
© ICP New -York

Collection de la Maison Européenne de la Photographie
www.mep-fr.org

Curator :
Jean-Luc Monterosso
and Jean-Marie Dautel

Greetings to : ICP New -York


Exhibition from 15th May to 22th June "Rétrospective"

Preview: 14 May to 6.30pm
Exhibited at Palais des Beaux-Arts - Place de la République - Lille
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