Customer Reviews:
 baudrillard hurts more than helps March 3, 2008
Delahay's photographs are some of the most mysterious and thought-provoking portraits i have ever seen. There is no doubt, moreover, that Baudrillard belongs here in some manner, but his essay seeks to demystify the thematic mechanisms at work in Delahaye's series and actually works to shape the way we see these pieces. I am completely on board with his ideas with regards to these photographs, but i am not sure if his writing belongs in this book. These pictures need to remain mysterious and should withhold information just as much as Delahaye's subjects.
 courageous, singular book July 23, 2006
as has been stated, this is a collection of surreptitious portraits, purely candid close-up photographs of subway riders in the paris metro (where it is illegal to photograph, incidentally) and it is by a photographer who should be known by any student or fan of comtemporary photography.
A fascinating book September 10, 1999
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Delahaye surreptitiously shot passengers on the Paris metro. His black and white full bleed shots reveal the interior blankness of everyday life distracted, preoccupied, faces staring inwardly, anxious, close-lipped that Baudrillard characterises as "absent from their lives, raised to the tragic impersonal figuration of their destiny". A mute drama.
A radical concept, a very impressive book. August 23, 1999
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
For two years, the author photographed passengers in the Paris metro with a hidden camera. The result is this simple collection of vertical, black and white portraits. Never before such a level of truth was reached in portrait photography.
 An interesting idea, but not necessarily for a book July 16, 1999
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Luc Delahaye is a Magnum photojournalist who has made some amazing reportages from the world's war zones over the last decade. L'Autre however, is not a book of these photographs. Between 1995 and 1997 Delahaye took photographs of passengers on the Paris Metro with a hidden camera. The close-up vertical portraits show people of all different ages and races staring off into space in typical subway fashion. The book closely resembles fellow Magnum photographer Gilles Peress' 1995 book The Silence in design, and besides this interesting design I do not think the book is too incredible. The photographs did not need to be put in a book.
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