‘In order to completely immerse myself in the cycling environment’, Belgian artist Jef Geys (1934-2018) photographed the first Tour de France that Eddy Merckx was to win in 1969. The leitmotif of his contrary reportage was not the glamour of the triumphal procession but the merging of the unusual and the everyday in the life of the cyclist.
‘In order to completely immerse myself in the cycling environment’, Belgian artist Jef Geys (1934-2018) photographed the first Tour de France that Eddy Merckx was to win in 1969. The leitmotif of his contrary reportage was not the glamour of the triumphal procession but the merging of the unusual and the everyday in the life of the cyclist.
