The close-up kiss popularized by Hollywood cinema hasn't always been the glamorous postcard it has become. Deemed immoral in the 1920s - at the height of the Hays Code - it's now questioned for its very virile representation, that of a man overlooking a woman's face, tense in dreamy passivity.



Exhibition "Sur tes lèvres"

🗓️ from October 26th, 2024 to January 12th, 2025 in Nantes (at Lieu unique and FRAC site de Nantes)



© Podcast series conceived and produced by Éva Prouteau. English version narrated by Eli Commins. Thanks to Pascal Lebrain and Henri Landré.

© Image: Jean Claracq, Arcadia Club, 2018-2021 ©Adagp Paris

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