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The Quest for a Blind Spot in Christ’s Iconography

The French photographer Jacqueline Salmon embarked on an unprecedented, five-year-long photographic and documentary adventure: she turned her lens to the blind spot in Christ’s iconography—the perizonium, or the veil of modesty that covers his pelvis. Her work of pure photographic composition is on display at the Réattu Museum as part of the Rencontres d’Arles festival.
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The blind spot. Holbein. © Jacqueline Salmon 2022

Never before has a project like this been carried out on a detail such as the perizonium. The loincloth covering Christ’s nakedness is a central element in the scenes of the Passion and the descent f...

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Michaël Naulin

Michaël Naulin is a journalist and works as Editorial Coordinator at Blind. A contributor for the Figaro Culture, his articles have been published in several magazines specializing in photography.

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