Texas, summer 1900. Wearing white dresses or black suits, young people devour a gigantic slice of watermelon as they staring at the lens. “A smiling watermelon,” says the mischievous title. A few yards away, like an echo almost thirty years later, an...

Copélia Mainardi
Copélia Mainardi is a freelance journalist who has worked for Marianne, France Culture and Arte's "28 minutes" program. She follows, among other things, cultural news, particularly in photography, theater and literature.
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