"The Beach" by Luis Artus

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Lluis Artus is a Catalan-based photographer whose work includes a series of portraits taken on the beaches of his native Barcelona. In these works, Artus shows the beach not just as a place, but as a kind of structure that claims to be natural and at the same time shows its artificiality. The beach for Artus is an allegory of Eden in the modern world. A dream destination chosen by all lottery winners and long-awaited vacations from Düsseldorf to São Paulo.

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"The Beach" by Luis Artus

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1. Thanks to a very modest set of outfits and accessories shown on the beach, signs of status and belonging to certain social and cultural groups are erased here.

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2. The beach increases the degree of political, economic and religious equality of its inhabitants almost to the limit.

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3. Artus takes advantage of this true equality by allowing subjects to be true individuals rather than units within certain categories.

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4. The author's approach is humane, individualistic and democratic.

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5. Artus displays his subjects with some sympathy, but no praise. Oiled bodies without voyeurism, flaws without judgment.

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6. He avoids both the English desire to portray either a hero or a target of ridicule, and the German tendency to categorize and objectify everything.

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7. Artus is an excellent representative of the Mediterranean vision, which is outside the Anglo-German mainstream of artistic photography.

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8. There may be a slight trace of the Catalan revolutionary ideas and egalitarian anarchist political ideologies that Orwell saw in Barcelona in the portraits of Artus.

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Keywords: Barcelona | Spain | Catalonia | Dream | Beach | Portrait

     

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