I was recently introduced to the work of Jean-Christian Bourcart. His project entitled The Most Beautiful Day is one of my favorites. As he introduces it,
Being a wedding photographer was my first job. Since then, I have been fascinated by those moments of built-up joy in a crude or absurd reality. Like an archaeologist, I began a collection, patiently excavating through thousands of unsold photos, the strata of private memories, looking for my own chosen freaky family.
The photographs were shot in Paris, beginning in 1980.
Untitled, 1980-2008
© Jean-Christian Bourcart
Untitled, 1980-2008
© Jean-Christian Bourcart
Untitled, 1980-2008
© Jean-Christian Bourcart
Untitled, 1980-2008
© Jean-Christian Bourcart
Untitled, 1980-2008
© Jean-Christian Bourcart
Untitled, 1980-2008
© Jean-Christian Bourcart
How often do you come across wedding photography this good?
See more from The Most Beautiful Day here.
2 Comments
November 29, 2008 – 4:20 pm
love the third!
what a great series
December 2, 2008 – 8:51 pm
Weddings are great and the easiest to shoot cause they the best kind of party. Not a party about the end of a career, or a corporate holiday, or even celebrating someone’s entry into the planet. Rather, it’s a party for love and hope, and all its fallible complexities. There often faux pas, fights, sex and dancing. What more could one photographer want. Human emotion.