VAMPIRES AND PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE ORSAY MUSEUM
Recently there has been a lot of talk about whether or not photography should be permitted in museums or galleries. Certain museums are a little more lenient than they once were. Perhaps as there were so many people sneaking photos (I am always caught) and other still refuse. The Orsay museum is one of them. In many ways I accept the curator’s point of view. If visitors are clicking away, are they really looking at the picture? When some tourists rush through the Louvre photographing everything in sight, I wonder what they see when reviewing the thousands of shots once back home? However, I was disappointed yesterday as the exhibition I went to see «The Angel of the Odd - Dark Romanticism from Goya to Max Ernst» as macabre as it is, the last room with paintings of Munch, Ernst, Miro, Dali, Friedrich, Brassai who seemed to be searching for the worrying strangeness of the modern city, while Masson and Bellmer paid hommage to works of Sade. I had been given the specific magazine of this