Showing posts with label french photographer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label french photographer. Show all posts

07/12/12

Expo Photos Lartigue au Château de Tours, 2013


Lartigue, l'émerveillé (1894-1986)
Exposition au Château de Tours
Jusqu'au 26 mai 2013


JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE
Jacques Henri LartigueRouzat. Charly, Rico et Sim
Septembre 1913
Tirage gélatino argentique.
© Ministère de la Culture-France/AAJHL
Courtesy Jeu de Paume, Paris

Une très intéressante sélection de photographies de Jacques Henri Lartigue sont exposées au Château de Tours jusqu'en mai 2013. L'exposition est organisée par le Jeu de Paume et la Ville de Tours, en collaboration avec l'Association des Amis de Jacques Henri Lartigue.

"Depuis que je suis petit, j’ai une espèce de maladie : toutes les choses qui m’émerveillent s’en vont sans que ma mémoire les garde suffisamment", constate Jacques Henri Lartigue dans son journal de l’année 1965. Emerveillement et mémoire qui flanche, passion pour la vie et blessure secrète devant l’impermanence des choses, il n’en faut pas plus à Lartigue pour glaner et collectionner pendant 80 ans ces milliers d’instants fugitifs dont il saura nous montrer la beauté. 

L’exposition présente, en grands formats, plus de 100 photographies qui ont contribué à construire la célébrité de Jacques Henri Lartigue. Elles ont été choisies dans les 135 grands albums qu’il a mis en page et légendés (un journal en images qui couvre le XXe siècle avec ses 14 423 pages), et sont complétées par des citations extraites de son journal et une sélection de fac-similés de documents (albums, agendas illustrés de croquis, journal manuscrit, plaques négatives et positives), permettant d’approcher la démarche de Lartigue au plus près.

JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE
Jacques Henri LartigueBibi au restaurant d’Eden Roc
Cap d’Antibes, 1920
Plaque autochrome stéréoscopique. Format 6 x 13 cm.
© Ministère de la Culture-France/AAJHL
Courtesy Jeu de Paume, Paris

On est peu habitué a voir des photographies de Lartigue en couleur. Le procédé autochrome le permettait à l'époque. La photo ci-dessus est un agrandissement tiré d'une plaque photographique en verre sur laquelle l'image en couleur apparaît en positif comme sur une diapositive. S'agissant d'une plaque stéréoscopique, l'original comprend deux photos identiques mais très légèrement décalées qui avec une visionneuse dédiée permet de voir la scène avec une impression de relief.


JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE

Jacques Henri LartigueRenée à l’Eden Roc
Cap d’Antibes, août 1931
Tirage gélatino argentique.
© Ministère de la Culture-France/AAJHL
Courtesy Jeu de Paume, Paris


La photographie, Jacques Henri Lartigue l’a apprise, dès 1900, au contact de son père qui lui offre son premier appareil photographique, à l’âge de 8 ans, en 1902. Dès lors, il n’a de cesse de photographier sa vie d’enfant rythmée par les voyages en automobile, les vacances en famille et surtout par les inventions de son frère aîné surnommé Zissou. Les deux frères sont passionnés par l’automobile, l’aviation et tous les sports alors en plein essor. Jacques les enregistre grâce à son appareil photographique. Il continuera adulte à fréquenter les manifestations sportives et à pratiquer lui-même quelques sports réservés à l’élite : ski, patinage, tennis, golf... 

Cependant, pour cet enfant si soucieux de retenir le temps qui passe, la photographie est insuffisante. Comment en effet, tout dire et tout retenir dans une image prise en quelques secondes ? C’est pourquoi parallèlement, il entreprend la rédaction d’un journal qu’il poursuivra toute sa vie.


JACQUES HENRI LARTIGUE
Jacques Henri Lartigue, Picasso et Jeanne Creff à “La Californie”
Cannes, août 1955
Tirage gélatino argentique.
© Ministère de la Culture-France/AAJHL
Courtesy Jeu de Paume, Paris

Deux films sont projetés : Un portrait complice réalisé par son ami François Reichenbach en 1980, et Le Siècle en positif, portrait romancé à partir des photographies de Jacques Henri Lartigue, réalisé en 1999 par Philippe Kohly.

Commissaire de l'exposition : Martine d’Astier, directrice de la Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue.

Exposition organisée conjointement par le Jeu de Paume www.jeudepaume.org – et la Ville de Tours, en collaboration avec l'Association des Amis de Jacques Henri Lartigue – www.lartigue.org  (dite Donation JH Lartigue) sous tutelle de la direction générale des Patrimoines - ministère de la Culture et de la Communication.

Château de Tours
25 avenue André Malraux – 37000 Tours
Tél. : 02 47 70 88 46
Horaires : du mardi au vendredi de 14h à 18h, samedi et dimanche 14h15 à 18h

02/07/11

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Europeans - In this book french photographer capture fragile reality of European life

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

In this moving collection of images, just published by Thames & Hudson, the celebrated photographer recorded what it meant to be European. Spanning the years from the late 1920s to the early 1990s, his photographs speak of the ongoing business of living for people across Europe, whether Polish priests or Abruzzi peasants. With his remarkable ability to capture fragile reality of European life, Henri Cartier-Bresson once again under scores his reputation as one of the 20th century’s most influential and original photographers. 
"Cartier-Bresson’s influence has been immense… he has been largely responsible for our sense of how modern life looks" – London Review of Books
The author, Jean Clair, was Director of the Picasso Museum for many years, and has been a member of the French Academy since 2008. Among the milestones of his long and productive career is a comprehensive catalogue of the works of Balthus.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Europeans
By Jean Clair
Translated by Anthony Rudolf
Published by Thames & Hudson, London
Publication date: 20 June 2011
26.9 x 21.9cm - 232pp - 187 illustrations

Thames & Hudson 
London, UK
www.thamesandhudson.com

12/06/10

Sophie Calle Exhibition at Louisiana Museum in Denmark

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Sophie Calle

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

23 June - 24 October 2010

 

With her photographs, texts and film installations Sophie Calle (b. 1953) creates what one could call reality-close fictions. The  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark presents a number of the artist’s central works; works that play with our perception of reality, mix the private with the collective, often draw on journalism, anthropology or psychoanalysis and take their point of departure in literature, the diary or the photo-novel.

Sophie Calle, who is one of France’s most appreciated living artists, often uses herself as a narrative starting-point for the story in the work. This also applies to Take Care of Yourself (Prenez Soin de Vous), which was one of the high lights of the Venice Biennale in 2007, and which has just been presented in an English version. For this work Sophie Calle has invited a wide variety of women (from a ballet dancer to a lawyer) to use their various professional skills to give their interpretations of an e-mail where the artist’s lover ends their relationship. The results are poetic, touching and humorous statements which together form a monumental installation.

 

SOPHIE CALLE

23 June - 24 October 2010

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Gl. Strandvej 13
3050 Humlebaek
Denmark

16/09/09

Algerie Independance, Photos de Marc Riboud

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(c) Marc Riboud / Le bec en l'air, 2009

Membre de la prestigieuse agence Magnum, Marc Riboud se rend en Algérie pour la première fois en 1960 pour couvrir la semaine des barricades érigées par les partisans de l’Algérie française. Il y retourne ensuite régulièrement et va saisir, au cours de l’année 1962, les moments décisifs de l’accession du peuple algérien à l’indépendance. Rarement montrées dans la presse française de l’époque, ces images réapparaissent aujourd’hui avec une force et une émotion incontestables, alors que la « Guerre d’Algérie » – appelée « Guerre de libération nationale » en Algérie – demeure un sujet sensible dans les mémoires collectives. On retrouve dans ce livre toutes les qualités de la photographie de Marc Riboud qui a su garder ses distances avec les événements et capter sans effets, avec le sens de la composition qui le caractérise, le quotidien d’un peuple en marche vers la liberté. Les textes de Malek Alloua et de Seloua Luste Boulbina replacent les photos dans leur contexte historique et politique et permettent de comprendre la démarche photographique de Marc Riboud. Ce livre est préfacé par le journaliste Jean Daniel. En librairie le 30 octobre 2009 Né en 1923 à Lyon, Marc Riboud a fait des études d’ingénieur avant de se lancer dans la photographie sous l’impulsion d’Henri Cartier-Bresson et de Robert Capa. Il intègre l'agence Magnum en 1953 et entreprend une série de voyages pendant lesquels il réalisera de nombreux et célèbres reportages, notamment en Chine, au Tibet, au Vietnam, en Inde, au Japon, en Afrique… Une des images les plus célèbres de Marc Riboud est celle du Peintre de la tour Eiffel, réalisée à Paris en 1953. Le grand public le connaît aussi pour la Jeune fille à la fleur montrant à Washington une opposante à la guerre du Vietnam qui tient une marguerite face aux soldats (1967). Voyageur infatigable, il a été exposé, publié et célébré dans le monde entier. Il a reçu deux fois l’Overseas Press Club Award (1966 et 1971) et le prix « Life Time Achievement » à New York en 2003. Poète, essayiste et critique littéraire algérien, Malek Alloula a écrit un essai remarqué sur la photographie orientaliste (Le Harem colonial, Séguier, 2001). Il était aussi l’auteur d’un texte sur les photographies qu’Etienne Sved avait réalisées en Algérie (Alger 1951, un pays dans l’attente, le Bec en l’air et Barzakh, 2005). Seloua Luste Boulbina est agrégée de philosophie et Docteur en Sciences politiques, spécialiste du colonialisme et du post-colonialisme. Elle travaille avec des artistes et écrit régulièrement sur la photographie (notamment, déjà en 2008 avec Marc Riboud, Sous les pavés, aux éditions La Dispute, et avec Richard Kalvar, Terriens, Flammarion, 2007). Algérie / Indépendance Photographies de Marc Riboud Textes de Malek Alloula et Seloua Luste Boulbina Préface de Jean Daniel Le bec en l'air, Editions Octobre 2009 24 x 29 cm - 172 pages ISBN : 978-2-916073-53-8 34,50 €

01/08/09

Diaporama Henri Cartier-Bresson

Pour celles et ceux qui ne l'on pas encore vue, voici un diaporama-video de photographies d' Henri Cartier-Bresson. Il s'agit d'une sélection de photos de ce génie de la photo. Les photographies sont présentées sur un fond musical de Saint-Germain, mais libre à vous de couper le son :)

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Publié le 24-07-2009

20/04/09

Edward Silhol, New World Heroes at WM Gallery

(c) 2009 - WM Gallery / Edward Silhol - Courtesy WM Gallery

Gallery Wanda Michalak - Amsterdam - presents new works by Paris-based photographer EDWARD SILHOL. In the series NEW WORLD HEROES, Edward Silhol demonstrates his continuing interest in the beauty of the human form, universal characteristics, and finding the permanent in the ephemeral. The photographs of Edward Silhol have a unique ability to simultaneously present various sets of binary opposites: silence and noise, stillness and motion, deep darkness and intense light. Taken during a series of performances in Paris, these works emanate the sensations of the events, and all their accompanying sights and sounds. There remains a timelessness to Edward Silhol’s photos, as he captures the core essence of the performers – the archetypal traits that transcend time and place. Utilizing a traditional film camera and advanced developing techniques, Edward Silhol becomes something of a painter in his darkroom. A deliberate grainy texture gives the effect of chiaroscuro, while images in high black-and-white contrast produce a reductivist take on the human form. Edward Silhol also experiments with colour: neon hues are reminiscent of ’80s rap, heat-sensitive cameras, and forensic blacklights all at once. This fauve palette coupled with the artist’s traditional use of film and pictorialist inspirations, results in yet another dualism: the new and the old. Edward Silhol’s practice thus resonates with both the traditional and the contemporary, giving his pictures a timeless quality. EDWARD SILHOL is based in Paris. His works are represented in France by Galerie Seine 51. He has exhibited in group shows in France (Galerie Xavie Sequier, Zen Factory, Heart Gallery, 396 rue Saint Honoré), Belgium (Fernelmont Contemporary) and in Canada (University of Toronto). EDWARD SILHOL NEW WORLD HEROES PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKS April 18 - May 23, 2009 GALLERY WANDA MICHALAK Elandsgracht 35 1016 TN Amsterdam, NL

11/03/09

Lise Sarfati - Mother & Daughter (2005-2007)

In the serie Mother & Daughter, Los Angeles, Berkeley and Oakland in California are the main places chosen by the artist. The central subject is the role game that takes a real importance between parents and children, and even more between a mother and her daughter. The characters become interchangeable and their relation reinforce the mirror effect. The imaginative realm of the mother is embodied in the daughter and the girl's ideal is played out by her mother. Throughout the serie, Mother & Daughter were photographed separately, to underline the personality split. The disturbing play of competition between the two brings exhibitionism to its apotheosis. It refers to the use of masks – makeup, wigs – underscoring the loss of bearings. The outcome is a kind of tension between the mask-reflections and the exhibitionism of the two women.
Grew up in France, Lise Sarfati lives in Paris. She obtained a master’s degree in Russian studies from the Sorbonne. She was the official photographer of the Academy des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Sarfati moved to Russia and photographed there for ten years. She received grants from both the Fiacre and Villa Medicis. She received the Prix Niepce in Paris and the Infinity award of International Center of Photography in New York for her work.
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Lise Sarfati - The New Life (2003)

In the serie of color photographs taken through United States -from Austin to Asheville, Portland to Berkeley, Oakland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Louisiana and small towns in Georgia- each portrait dramatizes the complexity of adolescent identity showing an intensity that adults will never be able to experience again. Lise Sarfati explores the dividing lines between good and bad, happiness and sadness, innocence and perversity, reality and fantasy. With a minimal choregraphy, she activates connections with her subjects in their everyday spaces and situations – bedrooms, backyards, kitchens, grocery stores. The title The New Life refers to Dante Aligheri and Beatrice Portinari, who were children when they met in 1274 in Firenze "She died and La Vita Nuova is a poem of love for Beatrice, with whom he was in love all his life" - A book has been published La Vie Nouvelle The New Life -Twin Palms publisher, 2005.
Grew up in France, Lise Sarfati lives in Paris. She obtained a master’s degree in Russian studies from the Sorbonne. She was the official photographer of the Academy des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Sarfati moved to Russia and photographed there for ten years. She received grants from both the Fiacre and Villa Medicis. She received the Prix Niepce in Paris and the Infinity award of International Center of Photography in New York for her work.
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02/01/07

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook: Photographs 1932-46

Henri Cartier-Bresson Bruxelles, Belgium, 1932 © Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Back of the image - HCB wrote: "One of my first fotos"
At the beginning of World War II, French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp for three years before he escaped in 1943. To the outside world, he was presumed dead, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York prepared to do a memorial exhibition (which ultimately took place in 1947). When Cartier-Bresson emerged, alive, he joined the efforts to assemble the retrospective. He selected and personally printed examples of his best works—including many that had never been printed before. Upon his arrival in New York in April 1946, he bought a scrapbook into which he meticulously glued all the prints in chronological order. In the 1990s, realizing the tremendous value and quality of the prints, he began taking them out, keeping thirteen pages mounted. These prints and the remaining intact pages will be on view in the landmark exhibition, Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932-46 at the International Center of Photography (1133 Avenue of the Americas at 43rd Street) from January 19 through April 29, 2007.
Containing work from Cartier-Bresson’s rich, early photographic career (1932-46), the prints from this scrapbook, comprising well over 300 vintage photographs, provide an extraordinary window into the photographer’s process and artistic development. These significant early images, including those from his travels to Italy, Spain and Mexico, and his encounters with Surrealism and modern art, reveal Cartier-Bresson’s working methods including some of his most famous portraits. Many of the images included in Henri Cartier-Bresson’s Scrapbook: Photographs, 1932-46 are among the photographer’s most noted and now form the core collection of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, established by him, his wife, photographer Martine Franck, and their daughter Mélanie in 2002 to preserve his legacy and work. Curated by Agnès Sire, head of the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, the exhibition will bring together 331 original scrapbook images printed by Cartier-Bresson in 1946 plus fifteen modern prints, and larger prints made in 1947 for the MoMA exhibition.
International Center of Photography (ICP) Director Willis Hartshorn noted, "The International Center of Photography and Henri Cartier-Bresson have a long history. When ICP opened its doors in 1974, it was with an exhibition of the work of Cartier-Bresson called Apropos USSR (1954-1973). Through the years, his exhibitions at ICP have included a major retrospective, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographer, as well as the exhibitions Photo Portraits and In India. In 1994, he was presented with ICP’s Infinity Award for Master of Photography. We feel extremely fortunate to be once again honoring this legendary photographer and for being selected as the only venue outside of Paris for this historic exhibition." Accompanying the exhibition will be a catalogue reproducing all images chosen by Cartier-Bresson for his scrapbook as well as his correspondence and historical documents. The catalogue is co-published by Thames & Hudson and the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, and includes essays by Martine Franck, Agnès Sire, and Michel Frizot. This exhibition was curated and organized by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris. The International Center of Photography presentation is supported by Air France, Saint-Gobain Corporation, Fred and Stephanie Shuman, Frank and Mary Ann Arisman, Andrew and Marina Lewin, and Sanford Luger and Ellen Samuel.