Biography

Born in 1962, Tours, France.
Lives and works in Paris.
Luc Delahaye 2006 2010 (2011 Steidl) Télécharger le PDF Download PDF
Solo exhibitions

2020 - Le Village, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris 2018 - Sumud et autres histoires, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris 2014 - Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris 2011 - 2006-2010, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris 2007 - J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA 2006 - Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany 2005 - La Maison Rouge, Paris, France - Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA 2004 - Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands - National Media Museum, Bradford, Untied Kingdom 2003 - Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, USA 2002 - Kunsthalle Rotterdam, Netherlands - Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, Germany - Centre Photographique d’Ile de France, Pontault Combault, France 2001 - Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen, Germany
Group exhibitions

2021 - High Emission Zone, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris 2020 - Portraits, from the 17th to the 21st century, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels - Pictures from Another Wall - De collectie van Huis Marseille in De Pont, De Pont Museum, Tibourg, The Netherlands - How does one portray the wind ? (Comment faire le portrait du vent ?), Centre d’art Image/Imatge, Orthez, France 2019 - Twenty Five Elements, Espace Commines, Paris, France 2018 - En Suspens, LE BAL, Paris, France - Collaboration: A Potential History of Photography, Ryerson Study Center, Toronto, Canada - Des Villes et des hommes, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France - Landscape That Remembers, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany - Le Prix Pictet célèbre ses lauréats, Les rencontres photographiques d’Arles, Arles, France - The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada - Godard-Picasso: Collage(s), Les Rencontres de la photographie, Arles, France 2017 - An unorthodox flow of images, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy, Australia - Chemin de fer, Centre Régional de la Photographie, Douchy-les-Mines, France 2016 - The Laureates (Prix Pictet), Mouravieff-Apostol House & Museum, Moscow, Russia - European portrait photography since 1990, CentroCentro - Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain - Anonymats d’aujourd’hui, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland 2015 - Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria - Pair(e), La Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium - Faces Now - European Portrait Photography,, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium - This Is War!, Palazzo del Monte di Pieta’, Padova, Italy - Faces Now - European Portrait Photography, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands - Conflict, Time, Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany 2014 - Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, MUDAM, Luxemburg - Une photographie sous tension, La collection de Florence et Damien Bachelot, Musée Nicéphore Niepce, Chalon sur Saône, France - Le Mur - La Collection Antoine de Galbert, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France - Les Désastres de la guerre, Louvre-Lens, France - Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd'hui, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France - Parade, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France - Conflict, Time, Photography, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom - Ontheemd. 150 jaar sociale fotografie, Maagdenhuismuseum, Antwerp, Belgium - Historia, miradas de artistas, MARCO, Vigo, Spain - Historia, miradas de artistas, Centro de Historias, Saragossa, Spain - de Marseillaise - Fifteen years of collecting, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2013 - Sous Influences – arts plastiques et produits psychotropes, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France - Seducidos por el arte. Pasado y presente de la fotografia, CaixaForum Barcelona, Spain - Prix Pictet Power Exhibition, Budapest, Istanbul, Dublin, Amsterdam, Beyrouth, Thessaloniki, San Diego - Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, USA - Histoire, regards d’artistes, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France - Seducidos por el arte. Pasado y presente de la fotografia, Caixa Forum Madrid, Spain - Lens Drawing, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France - The Violent Bear It Away, Biola University Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA - Power, Museum of Photographic Art, San Diego, USA 2012 - La Triennale, Intense Proximité , Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France - War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA - Hors les murs, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Brussels - Making History, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst & Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany - Power (Prix Pictet), Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom - Seduced by Art : Photography Past and Present, The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom - Viewpoint, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2011 - The Dwelling Life of Man. Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection., Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain - My Paris, Collection Antoine de Galbert, me Collectors Room / Stiftung Olbricht, Berlin, Germany - Ainsi soit-il, Collection Antoine de Galbert - Extraits, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France - New Documentary Forms, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom - Conversations. Photography from the Bank of America Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, USA - The Unseen Eye, George Eastman House, Rochester, USA - Embarrassment of Riches, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, USA - In camera and in public, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia - Topographies de la Guerre, Le Bal, Paris, France 2010 - Embarrassment of Riches: Picturing Global Wealth, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA 2009 - Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell , Mücsarnok, Budapest, Hungary - D’ailleurs – I Won’t Play Other to Your Same , Galerie Art et essai, Rennes, France - Questioning History, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands - Controverses, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France 2008 - Between Memory & History: From the Epic to the Everyday , MOCCA, Toronto, Canada - Panoramic Scenes , Centre de la Photographie de Genève, Switzerland - Questioning History, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands - Controverses. Une histoire éthique et juridique de la photographie, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland - Foto-Espacios de la Coleccion Musac, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Gas Natural Fenosa , A Coruna, Spain 2007 - Photographies, Nouvelles acquisitions 2003-2007, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France - Kopf an Kopf, Serielle Porträtfotografie , Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany - Artist’s Choice , Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France - Krakow Photo Month , Krakow, Poland - Documents, memory of the future , Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian & MARCO, Vigo, Spain - Eye Witnesses, Seedamm Culture Center, Pfäffiko, Switzerland 2006 - Wanderland, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany - Click-Double click , Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium - The Culture of Fear , Federkiel Foundation, Leipzig, Germany - Aura of the Photograph: The Image as Object , Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, USA - Click-Double click, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany - Tunnel Vision, Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Antwerp, Netherlands - Beautiful Suffering, Williams College Museum of Arts, Williamstown, USA - Closed Eyes, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark 2005 - Big Bang , Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France - Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2005 , C/O Berlin, Germany - Unique but not the only: Contemporary French Art, Guandong Museum of Art, Guanzhou, China - Les Grands Spectacles , Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Germany - Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2005 , The Photographer’s Gallery, London, United Kingdom - Emergencies, Museo de Arte Contemporàneo de Castilla y Leòn, Spain - Relations, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany 2004 - Historias, Fundacion ICO - Photo Espana, Madrid, Spain 2003 - Strangers. ICP Triennial , International Center of Photography, New York, USA - Now. Images of present time , Mois de la Photo, Montréal, Canada - Geometry of the face , National Museum of Photography - Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark 2002 - Fragilités, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France 2001 - Connivence , Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France - Puissance de L’Anonyme , Rencontres Internationales de Photographie, Arles, France - Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, United Kingdom - In a lonely place , National Media Museum, Bradford, United Kingdom - Critique et Utopie, La Criée - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France - Une Ville, L’Été photographique de Lectoure, France 2000 - Angaende Fotoautomaten , FotoKunst Museet, Odense, Denmark - Le temps déborde , Forum Culturel de Seine St Denis, Blanc-Mesnil, France - Magnum°, Essais sur le monde, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Collections

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, USA Centre Pompidou - Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, USA Det Nationale Fotomuseum, Copenhagen, Denmark Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France Gemeentemuseum Helmond, Netherlands High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands ICP - International Center of Photography, New York, USA J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA Bank of America, Chicago, USA Lhoist, Limelette, Belgium Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France Musée de Grenoble, France Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada National Media Museum, Bradford , UK SFMOMA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA Tate Modern, London, UK The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami, USA
Bibliography

Comment j’ai fait certaines de mes photos (Galerie Nathalie Obadia, 2014) Luc Delahaye 2006-2010 (Steidl, 2011) History (Chris Boot, 2003) Une Ville (Xavier Barral, 2003) Winterreise (Phaidon, 2000) L’ Autre (Phaidon, 1999) Mémo (Hazan, 1997) Portraits/1 (Sommaire, 1996)
Catalogues

On Photographs (David Campany, Thames & Hudson, 2020) + Photographie - Les acquisitions des collections publiques (Coll., Le Bec en l’air, 2020) Space Framed: Photography, Architecture and the Inhabited Environment (Hugh Campbell, Lund Humphries Publishers, 2020) Comment regarder la photographie (Anne de Mondenard, Hazan, 2019) Remembering Landscape (Coll., Snoeck, 2018) Salvage #6 - Evidence of things not seen (Salvage, 2018) The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of Collecting Photographs (Ann Thomas, 5 Continents, 2018) Prix Pictet, Ten (Coll., teNeues, 2018) En Suspens (LE BAL-Shelter Press, 2018) Art matters: Agency and Aesthetics (Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Auckland Art Gallery & Massey Un., 2018) Des Villes et des hommes (Editions Clémentine de La Ferronière, 2018) Killing for Show (Julian Stallabrass, Verso, 2018) Context & Narrative in Photography (Maria Short, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018) The Photography History and Theory Reader (Liz Wells, Routledge, 2018) Magnum Photobook - The Catalogue Raisonne (Fred Ritchin, Phaidon, 2016) La Photographie - 3/ (post-) documentaires (ed. Art Press, 2016) Métro Photo (Julien Faure-Conorton, Actes Sud, 2016) The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography (N. Herschdorfer, Thames & Hudson, 2015) Materialschlacht. Design und Krieg (Veröffentlichung im Reimer Verlag, 2015) Read This If You Want to Take Great Photographs of People (Henry Caroll, Laurence King Publishing, 2015) La Fabrique de l’information visuelle (Thierry Gervais, Textuel, 2015) European Portrait Photography (Frits Gierstberg, Prestel, 2015) La manipulation des images dans l’art contemporain (Catherine Grenier, Ed. du Regard, 2014) Conflict, Time, Photography (Tate Publishing, 2014) Une Histoire - art/archi/design des années 80 à nos jours (Centre Pompidou/Flammarion, 2014) The Photography Book (Phaidon, 2014) Parade - Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie (Actes Sud, 2014) Les Désastres de la guerre (Somogy, 2014) Photography- Definitive Visual History (Dorling Kindersley, 2014) Le Regardeur - La Collection Neuflize Vie (Xavier Barral, 2014) Why it doesn’t have to be in Focus (Thames and Hudson, 2014) Inertia in the Big City (IB Tauris, 2014) Photography Today (Phaidon, 2014) The History of Photography (vol. IV) (Skira, 2014) de Marseillaise - Fifteen years of collecting (Coll., Huis Marseille, 2014) Rwanda, entre crise morale et malaise esthétique (Nathan Réra, Les Presses du réel, 2014) The World Atlas of Street Photography (Thames & Hudson, 2014) Damage Control - Art and Destruction Since 1950 (Prestel, 2013) Histoire: regard d’artistes (Hôtel des Arts de Toulon, 2013) Why Art Photography? (Routledge, 2013) 100 European Photographers (Exit, 2013) Les Procès de l’art (Palette, 2013) Protocole et photographie contemporaine (Coll., Université de St Etienne, 2013) War of Images - Contemporary War Photography (Sandra Vitaljic, Algoritam, 2013) L’Art dans le monde de 1960 à nos jours (Hazan, 2012) Seduced by Art, Photography Past and Present (The National Gallery, 2012) War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath (Yale University Press, 2012) Sur la photographie contemporaine (l’Harmattan, 2012) Art & Visual Culture 1850-2010 - Modernity to Globalization (Tate Publishing, 2012) Photography - The Whole Story (Prestel, 2012) Making History (Hatje Cantz, 2012) Picturing Atrocity - Photography in Crisis (Reaktion Books, 2012) Cities and Photography (Routledge, 2012) Watching War (Jan Mieszkowski, Stanford University Press, 2012) Mutations - Perspectives sur la photographie (Steidl, 2011) Photography - History and Theory (Routledge, 2011) Intense Proximité, l’Anthologie (Centre National des Arts Plastiques, 2012) My Paris, Collection Antoine de Galbert / A Selection (Kerber, 2011) Topographies de la Guerre (Steidl, 2011) Ainsi Soit-il, Collection Antoine de Galbert - Extraits (Fage, 2011) 100 Chefs d’Oeuvre de la Photographie (Centre Pompidou, 2010) Questioning History - Imagining the Past in Contemporary Art (Nai Publishers, 2008) Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before (Michael Fried, Yale University Press, 2008) Photo Art (Aperture, 2008) Controverses : Une histoire juridique et éthique de la photographie (Acte Sud, 2008) The Genius of Photography (Quadrille Publishing, 2007) Kopf an Kopf, Serielle Porträtfotografie (Kunsthalle Tübingen, 2007) Artist’s Choice (Institut Néerlandais, 2007) Krakow Photo Month (2007) Paroles d’Artistes (Centre Pompidou, 2007) Documents, memory of the future (MARCO, 2007) Collection photographies (Centre Pompidou/Steidl, 2007) Image takers, Image makers (Thames & Hudson, 2006) Wanderland (Kerber, 2006) Click Double Click, The documentary factor (Haus der Kunst / Watlther Köening, 2006) Art Photography Now (Thames & Hudson, 2005) Photographie plasticienne, l’extrême contemporain (Editions du Regard, 2005) The Photograph as Contemporary Art (Thames & Hudson, 2005) La Photographie dans l’Art Contemporain (Flammarion, 2005) Les Grands Spectacles (Museum der Moderne Salzburg / Hatje Cantz, 2005) Singuliers (Guandong Museum of Art / Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, 2005) Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2005 (The Photographer’s Gallery, 2005) Image & Imagination (Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal / Langford, 2005) Imagenes de Historia (PHE04, 2004) Photography Speaks (Chrysler Museum of Art / Aperture, 2004) Take Five (Huis Marseille, 2004) The Photobook: A History - Volume II (Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, Phaidon Press, 2004) Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video (ICP / Steidl, 2003) Now. Images of present time (Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, 2003) Geometry of the Face (The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, 2003) Fragilités (Printemps de Septembre / Actes Sud, 2002) Connivence (Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, 2001) In a Lonely Place (Bradford National Museum of Photography, 2001) L’Anonyme (Rencontres Internationales de Photographie / Actes Sud, 2000)
Press articles

Luc Delahaye, une position dans le réel (Artpress, 04/2018) Luc Delahaye ausculte l’esprit de résistance palestinien (L’Humanité, 02/2018) Luc Delahaye, de l’actualité à l’allégorie (Le Monde, 02/2018) Le Témoignage palestinien de Luc Delahaye (Le Journal des Arts, 02/2018) Luc Delahaye - Portrait (L’Œil, 02/2018) Luc Delahaye, Hauteur de vue (Télérama, 02/2018) Delahaye ausculte l’esprit de résistance palestinien (L’Humanité, 02/2018) Entre Art et Politique (Art Press, 10/2016) Les Autres chemins du regard (Fisheye, 09/2016) Rupture (Bil Bo K, 12/2015) Le Réel à distance (Le Monde, 08/2015) Luc Delahaye (The Contrarian, 08/2015) Kill our Icons (Memory Machine, 11/2014) War photography: what happens after the conflict? (The Telegraph, 11/2014) Luc Delahaye (France Fine Art, 11/2014) Conflict, Time, Photography at Tate Modern sets timestamp on tragedy (The Guardian, 11/2014) Transcending photography (The New York Times, 11/2014) After the war is over (The Economist, 12/2014) Luc Delahaye (Telerama, 12/2014) Cadres de guerre (Libération, 08/2013) Through the prism of power (Financial Times, 10/2012) Le monde vu par Luc Delahaye (Le Monde, 10/2012) Luc Delahaye, la présence de l’image (Art Absolument, 09/2012) Beautiful Gruesome Death (Metropolis M, 04/2012) Quand l’art cause politique (Le Monde, 12/2011) Luc Delahaye turns war photography into an unconfortable art (The Guardian, 08/2011) Luc Delahaye, Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Frieze, 05/2011) Luc Delahaye (Art in America, 05/2011) History in the Making (Art News, 04/2011) Luc Delahaye, Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Art Forum, 04/2011) Luc Delahaye (Art Press, 03/2011) Luc Delahaye, l’actualité lente (Le Monde, 01/2011) Les Beautés sombres de Luc Delahaye (Connaissance des Arts, 12/2010) Photography after the Photograph (Oxford Art Journal, 12/2009) Delahaye’s big pictures at the Getty (Los Angeles Times, 10/2007) World Mergers (by Michael Fried / Art Forum, 03/2006) The Incomprehensible Beauty of Tragedy (Exit, 10/2006) Luc Delahaye, politishe Fotografien (Architectural Digest, 10/2006) Luc Delahaye (Contemporary, 02/2006) Politics, Territories, Control (Photofile, 01/2006) Actualité de l’histoire… ( Art 21, 12/2005) Luc Delahaye, du reporter à l’artiste (Le Monde, 11/2005) Un oeil sur la guerre (les Inrockuptibles, 11/2005) Le regard élargi (Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne, 09/2005) Luc Delahaye: Snap Decision (Art Press, 11/2004) Global documentary (Portfolio, 5/2004) There goes everything (Source, 5/2004) The big picture (The Guardian, 02/2004) Conflict zone (Art Review, 11/2003) A Montréal, l’art cherche à décadrer l’image d’actualité (Le Monde, 09/2003) The gaze turns outward and sees estrangement (The New York Times, 09/2003) 99 VIP de la photographie (Paris Photo, 06/2003) Der Adel der Kriegsfotografie (Kunstforum, 06/2003) In between history (Art Monthly, 05/2003) Luc Delahaye: History (Contemporary, 05/2003) The real thing: photographer Luc Delahaye (Artnet, 04/2003) Making History (The Village Voice, 03/2003) Les «tableaux d’histoire» contemplatifs de Luc Delahaye (Le Monde, 03/2003) The 25 most important photographers (American Photo, March 2003) Frei von allen Fesseln (Freitag, 01/2003) Le Printemps de Septembre (Libération, 2002) Luc Delahaye, l’art et la guerre en un regard (Le Monde, 2002) Luc Delahaye, des champs de batailles aux cimaises (L’Humanité, 2002) L’été photographique de Lectoure (Le Monde, 2001) Winterreise, épreuves de Russie (Beaux Arts Magazine, 2001) Russia in winter: bleak, desperate, beautiful (The New York Times, 2001) Portraits volés de Luc Delahaye (L’Humanité, 2001) La Russie au porte à porte (Le Monde, 2000) Faces in the metro (the Sunday Times, 1999) Portraits volés (Le Monde, 1999) Le portrait photographique ou la ressemblance intime (Le Monde, 1996) Luc Delahaye, le lauréat (Le Monde, 1993)
Awards/Fellowships

2012 Prix Pictet
2005 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize
2002 Prix Niepce Robert Capa Gold Medal Bayeux Award for War Correspondents
2001 ICP Infinity Award
2000 Oskar Barnack Award
1993 Robert Capa Gold Medal |