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You have to have lived in the last century to know this name: Paul Tourenne. His exhibition is entitled: Some notes of happiness, it is at Espace Durev until October 2. Caroline Stein presents it this way: “From the laughing moment to everyday scenes, Paul Tourenne's photographs are those of an era, of a state of mind, of an air of lightness. Tenor-soloist of the Frères Jacques, he was, at…
PICTO New York partners with the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) for the second year, and offer an exhibition and silent auction with 19 images from some of the world’s foremost photographers. The photographs depict memorable figures and moments. Jackie Onassis on a city street being chased by famous paparazzo Ron Gallela. Barack Obama caught in the imaginary web of a young Spiderman on Halloween, taken by White House photographer…
Jean-Claude Gautrand's "libres expression" exhibition at the Musée Réattu in Arles ends in a month, but the film made by Daniel Mezergues to be presented on the occasion of this retrospective is visible in its entirety online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjJ04zX2L90
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Man Ray is in line for a record. In May, Christie's will present for auction in New York the most emblematic photograph of the American artist: Le Violon d'Ingres. Estimated between 5 and 7 million dollars, it could also become the most expensive photographic work ever sold. The record holder is now Andreas Gursky and his rectilinear Rhein II, sold for 4.3 million dollars in 2011. Taken in 1924, the…
Archives - October 2012 Clarence Sinclair Bull's long association as a photographer with the studio that would become Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer began when producer Samuel Goldwyn hired him in 1919. Managing to survive the commotion of the consolidation of the Hollywood studios in the early and mid 1920s, Bull found himself at the helm of MGM's stills department when the studio was formed in 1924 and stayed there until retiring in 1961.…
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Selby Gardens) spotlights the creative practices of Robert Mapplethorpe, one of the most significant photographers of the 20th century, and legendary singer-songwriter and poet Patti Smith in an immersive and multisensory exhibition opening this weekend in the Gardens’ 15-acre Downtown Sarasota campus. Marking the sixth edition of Selby Gardens’ annual Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series, which explores the work of major artists through the lens…
Galerie Durev
56, Bd de Latour-Maubourg, 75007 Paris
from October 15th, 2024 to October 20th, 2024
Galerie David Guiraud
5, rue du Perche, 75003, Paris, France
from October 4th, 2024 to November 2nd, 2024
Leica Gallery Boston
977 F St NW, Washington, DC 20004, United States of America
from August 29th, 2024 to December 1st, 2024
Galerie Catherine Pennec
7 rue Philippe Marcombes, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
from October 10th, 2024 to November 16th, 2024
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The rumor started Saturday morning: Yan Morvan is dead. Its origin was unclear: a Hell’s Angel would have announced it to a friend of Yan’s who was hospitalized and not very lucid. I refused to believe it. I was wrong: Yan is dead. He was a formidable character, an incredible provocateur, an erudite esthete and above all a rare and passionate photographer. A friend too, for 45 years, since the…
ARCHIVES - March 27, 2024 The Hotel Fontfreyde, Clermont-Ferrand Photographic Center presents until June 1st an exhibition by Yan Morvan titled Résistances Mémorielles. He presents it like this. On the razor edge The bus of the "special envoys" of the "international" press went from Teheran to Shatt-el-Arab, the scene of the battle between Iraq and Iran for the possession of the oil terminals. We stoped, at night, on a height…
ARCHIVES - December 26, 2022 I never thought that the Russians would invade Ukraine on February 24, 2022. I was betting it was a bluff of Comrade Putin trying to obtain concessions by threat. I was wrong. The augurs were right: these eight years spent testing themselves in the trenches on both sides were finally going to materialize in a real good old-fashion war. The Russians were winning! The people's…
ARCHIVES - May 3, 2021 For the second time, Galerie Thierry Marlat is dedicating an exhibition to the photographic work of photoreporter Yan Morvan. This exhibition brings together some thirty vintage silver prints, in black and white. All prints are dated 1981. In 1981, Yan Morvan was 27 years old. He is a young photojournalist and works for the Sipa Press agency which assigns him to cover a year in…
ARCHIVES - October 30, 2020 I spent several weeks in the emblematic places of Pigalle. Access is sometimes difficult, anonymity is the rule, the girls who perform on stage, some who go above and beyond, don't like to tell stories. It’s a temporary job. Never a regular job. Soliciting in the streets is prohibited and passes are done discreetly, in the private places of certain night bars or in the…
ARCHIVES - July 1, 2020 We are not going to bullshit you about the “genesis” of the work of Art but to get into the rough immediately - Here is what was “my” basis of reflection which presided over “my” photographic campaign “Hexagon” (“mine "Because there were two of us on the spot.) IT IS WRITTEN in the book of Exodus: " You shall not make for yourself an image in…
It is 3:54 in the morning. I can not sleep. Yesterday I received an email from JJ Naudet the founder of The Eye of Photography: "Bangkok, your images, your text? ". He keeps at it. He was the only one to published me in August 1980 in PHOTO, on my return from Thailand. Nearly forty years ago now. I had fled Paris. Freelance at the Figaro Magazine, the weekly founded…
ARCHIVES - November 6, 2019 Don't be worried Yan Morvan, it's not because magazines no longer publish your pictures that your career is over! look you have a great exhibition at Paris Photo! the world's biggest photography fair! a solo show even! the star of the stars! Obviously your gallerist is a little worried because you do not show large format images ready to be hung above the sofa of…
ARCHIVES - October 4, 2019 On the occasion of the publication of Yan Morvan's new book "The Iron Age" at Serious Publishing, Sit Down Gallery presents the exhibition "Anarchy in the United Kingdom", a selection of prints whose negatives were buried in a box named "England" since the eighties. These images are a precious and essential testimony of an era that remained in the collective memory as the golden age…
ARCHIVES - 1 juillet 2019 At twenty, the years are our only baggage Experience comes from the parents We take nothing seriously We always run after happiness Love is for life Life which lasts the time of a scream Of a perm or a pair of jeans For the rest we imagine For all luggage we have our mug If it's cute it's easy If it's ugly one gets used…
The invasion of Lebanon by the Israeli army in 1982 marked the beginning of the operation "Peace in Galilee". Photojournalist Yan Morvan is sent on the premises by Sipa for Newsweek. From 1982 to 1985, he recounts the war in Lebanon as he lived it. It tells the story of a torn country, without ever taking sides or favoring one of the actors of this drama, in order to reproduce…
Bobby Sands died on May 5, 1981 at 1 am and 17 minutes. Bobby Sands was arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison for possession of firearms. On 1 March 1981 he began a hunger strike followed by nine other political prisoners members of the IRA (Irish Republican Army) and the INLA (Irish National Liberation Army). Their demands: to obtain the status of political prisoners to which they are…
ARCHIVES - may 18, 2018 May 1977. In front of me, a stylish 30-year-old stares at me and immediately asks if I have tattoos. We’re preparing “Photo”, the magazine, and the editor-in-chief, Jean-Jacques Naudet tells me that he is going to publish six pages on my adventures with the urban tribes: Rockers, Teddies, Hell’s, etc… This publication, in the most famous of monthlies dedicated to photography, was going to open…
ARCHIVES - February 11, 2016 According to the well-known Duchampian perspective on photography, Yan Morvan knows that “action” in itself isn’t much: only its consequences make sense. That’s why, horsing around with his often-scandalizing models, who don’t fit the classical—aloof and anorexic—standards, the artist poses them so as to play with fetishism and its frills and thrills. Hence his fixation with droll ceremonies which are like appetizers, like preludes to…
ARCHIVES - November 9, 2016 Champs de bataille [Battlefields] is a phenomenal book authored by Yan Morvan. The book is published by Éditions Photosynthèses. Yan worked on this project for ten years, photographing in the present day the sites of battles that shaped our history. For ten years, he thought of nothing else. I’ve known Yan for forty years, since the publication of his first images in Photo au milieu…
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