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The series of photographs "The Playhouses of Our Grandparents" (Les cabanes de nos grand-parents) brings us face to face with members of the older generation across the world, from France to the tiny island nation of Vanuatu (stopping along the way in places as diverse as India, Brazil, Morocco, New Zealand, Sweden, and the United States, among others). Over the last five years, Nicolas Henry has created roughly 400 portraits in more than forty countries. For each portrait, a sort of makeshift stage set or temporary playhouse was constructed using the subject's familiar possessions - a reflection of each person's history, his imaginary world: a fish-cum-helicopter during a miraculous bowfishing trip in Vanuatu; a skyscraper fashioned from odds and ends in a workers' camp in Shanghai; a smi

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• Full title: Nicolas Henry: The Playhouses of Our Grandparents
• Author: Nicolas Henry
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 184
• EAN: 9782330000844
• ISBN: 2330000847
• ID: 12545194
• Publisher: ACTES SUD ED
• Weight: 1882 g
• Dimensions: 290 × 325 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. August 2012

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