Is Perception Reality?
Denis Darzacq’s La Chute (The Fall) captures the amazing beauty in the falling form of a human. Or does it?
According to Guardian Unlimited, “He went to watch hip-hop and break-dancing shows in Paris, and filmed them. He froze some fuzzy frames in which the dancers appeared to be falling from the sky and went back to them, saying, “I want you to do that.” They said no way, that they couldn’t. “But it’s you,” he said, pointing at the frames. They were intrigued.”
So while it speaks to the perception of free fall - a generation of French youth free-falling and ignored by the society in which they live - the reality is that the subjects are captured mid-move in a highly tailored dance choreography. Here’s a case, for me at least, where the reality is just as moving as the perception!
