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The happy years. Denise photographed by her father Emile Zola

Dal 03 Febbraio al 29 Maggio 2022 -
Musée d'Orsay
Esplanade Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
75007 Paris
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Emile Zola
Denise de face, regard vers sa gauche, entre 1897 et 1902
Musée d'Orsay
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Alexis Brandt
« My father took photographs with the same passion he devoted to everything. We therefore have living memores of our privates life. »
Denise Le Blond-Zola



Discover the extraordinary collaboration developed between Émile Zola and her daughter Denise who, aged 9 to 13 years old, poses for more than a hundred portraits in front of the lens of the writer also passionate about photography.
A secret and intense complicity who prompts a silent dialogue between two tender hearts. 

 

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February 3 - May 29, 2022.  Photography cabinet, room 8 c
Curator: Marie Robert, Chief Curator of Photography and Film 

Accrochage Les années heureuses. Denise photographiée par son père Émile Zola
© Musée d'Orsay / Sophie Crépy​​​​


 

Accrochage  Les années heureuses. Denise photographiée par son père Émile Zola
© Musée d'Orsay / Sophie Crépy​​


 

Accrochage  Les années heureuses. Denise photographiée par son père Émile Zola
© Musée d'Orsay / Sophie Crépy

 

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