We don’t forget Jacques Nadeau. We won’t forget it either. He had this gift, imbued with tenacious will, of representing the moods and experiences of the world in touching, powerful and penetrating, and therefore indelible, photos.
As he himself testifies, what he wanted to depict was emotion, feeling. Now, how this coincided with (the spirit of) the nation for which, primarily, he found himself doing it!
Didn’t Wilfrid Laurier retort to the… founder of the Duty, in 1899, this profound thought remained famous: “My dear Henri, the province of Quebec has no opinions, it only has feelings. »
If a photo is worth a thousand words, those of Jacques Nadeau were worth ten thousand.
In a time of a profusion of stories of all kinds, someone who can illustrate in one click(heh) both the breadth and depth of an event has an editorial head start, and quite a, on the most learned or the most sophisticated chronicle, or even on the most exhaustive, the most meticulous, the most precise and the most detailed report.
A photo should not only be beautiful, but also good, he says? And how ! It is only in this way, through a conjunction of beauty and good, that we manage to bring out good and true (or evil and false). […]