Each week, the Guardian Weekend magazine's editorial team choose a picture, or set of pictures, that particularly tickle their fancy. This week, their choice is Sébastien Lifshitz's collection The Invisibles
Film-maker Sébastien Lifshitz, 45, has been scouring flea markets since he was 10. Twenty years ago, in the Vanves market, Paris, he came across a photo album of two old women. “I couldn’t figure out the relationship between them,” he says. “Were they sisters? Friends? Lovers?” He asked the seller if he had any more pictures of the pair, and he produced 10 more albums. Lifshitz bought the lot for ¤50. The shots spanned 30 years, and featured no children or men, just these two women, together. “I realised very quickly they were lovers,” Lifshitz says. “The way they held each other, the way they looked at each other.” →
Sebastien Lifshitz
He then set about collecting shots of anonymous gay couples from the start of the 20th century, and has now put them together in a book, The Invisibles. “So much of gay history focuses on the struggle and tragedy of the past, and of course that was true, but these images prove the reality was more complex. They show a freedom and a happiness for those brave enough to take pictures of who they were.” →
Film-maker Sébastien Lifshitz, 45, has been scouring flea markets since he was 10. Twenty years ago, in the Vanves market, Paris, he came across a photo album of two old women. “I couldn’t figure out the relationship between them,” he says. “Were they sisters? Friends? Lovers?” He asked the seller if he had any more pictures of the pair, and he produced 10 more albums. Lifshitz bought the lot for ¤50. The shots spanned 30 years, and featured no children or men, just these two women, together. “I realised very quickly they were lovers,” Lifshitz says. “The way they held each other, the way they looked at each other.” →
Sebastien Lifshitz
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