The New York Times published a focus on Cédric Delsaux’s Star Wars series. Featured for the first time in AMUSEMENT n°7, you can see some part of the series in our gallery.

An Earth Where the Droids Feel at Home

THE images simmering in the French photographer Cédric Delsaux’s “Dark Lens” series are an unsettling confluence of hyper-real cityscapes, a post-postmodern sense of humor … and characters from “Star Wars.”

There’s Darth Vader, in his dark and terrible glory, stalking Paris and Dubai; Jabba the Hutt lurking in some Parisian ruin; and the Millennium Falcon rocked by a sandstorm above Dubai. One of the many questions raised by these bewitching photographs is this: George Lucas’s science-fiction fantasy long ago colonized our cultural imagination, so why not our actual physical world?

Read more on nytimes.com

Comments

• No comments yet - be the first.