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From April 17 to June 20, 2021 takes place the 4th edition of Usimages, biennial of industrial heritage photography organized by the Agglomeration Creil Sud Oise (ACSO), programmed and implemented by Diaphane, photographic center of the Hauts-de- France. This edition is fully dedicated to the biennial. This spring, 13 exhibitions are presented in the open air in the municipalities and thus invite the inhabitants to a photographic stroll to discover…

Émeric Feher (1904 Bečej / Serbia - 1966 Paris), photographer of Hungarian origin, arrived in France in 1926. first starting as a workman  for Peugeot and then Citroën, in 1933 he joined the studio of photographer René Zuber as an operator. A year later, he joined the Alliance Photo group founded by René Zuber and Maria Eisner, one of the first agencies run by independent photographers and bringing together young…

The selection of photographs presented favors a look around the very functionalist universe of offices of the 1970s, which links the human presence to the architecture of these spaces as an ode to modernity. Bernard Heurtier (1930-2019), accountant by profession, passionate about photography and aviation, in 1961 founded the Société Créations artistiques Heurtier, whose laboratory was located in Rennes, rue Saint-Hélier. The purpose of this company was for "industrial, aerial,…

This exhibition offers a route through the photographic collection of the National Research and Safety Institute for the Prevention of  Accidents while working and Occupational Diseases (INRS), focusing on the representation of the working movement. By entering companies through the prism of occupational health and safety, we discover the working conditions of employees and their professional environment, which have evolved and even disappeared over time. Our perception of these initially…

As Italy shut down “all non-essential production activity except essential supply chains” on March 22, 2020, many companies responded with resourcefulness and solidarity, making themselves available to help. reinvent and support the common effort. Mattia Balsamini found these companies, which across Italy have quickly converted or adapted their production lines to respond to the Covid-19 epidemic. "Contingency plans" is a photographic report supported by covid19visualproject.org, a permanent archive of the coronavirus…

Thanks to photographs in the collection of the McCord Museum, it is possible to see where Montrealers worked in the first decades of the twentieth century, to go back in time to discover the places and the atmosphere in which men and women of that time exercised their trades. This foray into the workspaces of yesteryear allows us to see that while some of the occupations pictured still exist, working…

The company innovates and naturally seeks to renew itself, it must take a creative look on the world in order to withstand globalized competition. The artist also perceives the world in his own way and invents new forms that he uses to give us his perception of our environment. Bringing together the youth of creation and the business world is to create bridges between universes that do not necessarily dialogue.…

Holden Luntz presents this fascinating group exhibition, we dedicate the totality of today's edition to it. When we think of rooms most of us draw on mental pictures of predictable spaces that are very familiar and give us a sense of security. We tend to see, and live in a fixed and predictable diurnal environment.  But for many photographers rooms or interior spaces have often presented themselves as challenges and…

For Listri, it will have formal elements of architecture like repeating patterns of column, arches, tiles, or objects such as books and a color palette that he finds appealing. His photographs often evoke a cultural entity and depict wealth based on privilege and learning. He is drawn to spaces that have grandeur as well as spaces that have been eroded due to the ravishes of time and use.   Holden…

For Michael Eastman, rooms or spaces need to have a patina produced by time and use. Spaces must be ‘lived in” and convey a feeling that someone has just left of is about to enter a room. He is always interested in the human dimension of a room – without an actual person being present. The economic splendor that is projected within a space holds little interest for Eastman –…

John Dugdale is a 20th century photographer smitten with the 19th century. He finds comfort in imagined ancestral connections. His is a world seemingly inhabited by spirits. The photographs are hand made and rely on older techniques, such as albumen, cyanotype and platinum printing. These are organic processes that give each print a unique quality. His pictures have a cool reserve and often include friends or family members. There is…

Bernard Faucon creates rooms as equivalent visual poems. A room can be lined in gold, bathed in milk, or covered in snow or sawdust. His subject is often the fleeting memories and joys of childhood – and the inescapable passage of time. His pictures were all made in the South of France with their special interest in nature, light, landscape and the memories specific to his youth. In his photographs,…

Karen Knorr builds a world of impossibilities. She explores grand spaces that are full of architectural richness, verdant light, and are steeped in history. Within these spaces she introduces animals that resist domestication. They are shot separately by her in game parks or are taxidermies. The animals inhabitants these spaces – but become entrapped by them. The rooms cannot logically house and nurture the wildness in these beautiful specimens. Just…

Sandy Skoglund painstakingly constructs rooms to contain objects and people that investigate the signifiers of how we live, think, and what we value. She often populates rooms with inanimate objects such as popcorn, Cheetos, tables, chairs, leaves, turf, and sculpts models of foxes, snakes, goldfish, dogs, cats, as well as humans. The pictures are built as life size dioramas that question, on a psychological level, our fears and fascination to…