The photograph captures the moment, as though it still needed to be caught by surprise, and preserves a detail that expresses the essential. A double surprise, thus, of the photographer’s gaze that may well reveal the artist's intention in those few short seconds it takes for the shutter to open and close…

The gestures reunited here, brought together two-by-two, reveal the sensual or intellectual movement of the body: gestures of tender or violent love, of struggle, work, play or pleasure...…