Harry Gruyaert - Las Vegas, Policemen on their Beat, 1982 - Sold

In 1982 Harry Gruyaert continues his exploration of color, far from his country he goes to the United States, to Las Vegas where everything seems bright and colorful to him, a city of a thousand lights, made of a multitude of light bulbs, of neon lights, on one evening he triggers and takes this photo of another planet, the sharp black with the almost unreal colors, or two police officers are caught in a pair of scissors, a vision in which he claims his influence on painting, in his work he is able to to get on his film the rendering of a hyper-realistic canvas like that of an impressionistic canvas. For him, a place is always different from another because it sums up everything, these elements that flow together, are extreme points, where the colors are graphic, places where he walks, stops, thinks and photographs.
“Color is more physical than black and white, more intellectual and abstract. For a black and white photo, we want to understand more about what goes on between the characters. With color one must be immediately touched by the different tones that express a situation. »Harry Gruyaert