Full of surprises, fresh and
pleasantly familiar at the same time. David Bacher's photography is a
kind of treasure hunt, where viewers can discover and interpret Paris
and New York in amusing, yet reflective, ways. The images often mirror
each other and just as often it is not immediately clear in which city a
photograph was taken. His aesthetics, inheriting the tradition of many
great street photographers, who have worked in Paris and New York City,
lie somewhere between Louis Stettner's calm spirituality and William
Klein's post-modernist provocation. Fifteen years ago, this American
living in Paris and in Nantes decided to take mirror images of New York
and Paris. In doing so, he realised that for him 'Paris and New York are
like two theatre sets with thousands of actors without predefined
roles'. His fluid gaze reflects the chaos of appearances without staging
it. Bacher likes to create optical illusions. He jostles perspectives,
giving reflections and shadows a presence as real as that of the bodies
and faces which inhabit the theatre of his work, the streets.


Text in English, German and French.