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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…
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This article was first published on February 17, 2012. Tomorrow, February 18, a retrospective of the work of Alice Springs, June Newton in the real life, will open at the Gallerie Carla Sozzani. June was a talented photographer, who more or less retired fifteen years ago. Speaking to us about June are three of her closest friends: José Alvarez, director of the publishing house Les Éditions du Regard; Dave, the…
Catherine Malandrino : Being A Woman Above All. We've known each other for a long time and for me, Catherine Malandrino has always been above all the incarnation of French chic. Originally from Grenoble, she quickly became a figure of the New York artistic life. Active, urban woman, her signature style is elegance and ultra-feminity. Aware of the challenges women face as mothers, lovers, friends and workers, she has created…
Starting March 19, 2022, CAMERA WORK Gallery presents the exhibition “Witnessing History”, dedicated to the significant history of photojournalism with 40 impressive works by over 20 world-famous photographers. On display and contextualized are visual documents from nearly 80 years of world events which have made history and become an integral part of the collective memory. These icons come from the renowned collection of CAMERA WORK AG or are works of…
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
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7 rue Philippe Marcombes, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand
from October 10th, 2024 to November 16th, 2024
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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…
ARCHIVES - November 9, 2015 It was at the Seoul airport in June 2011, that I bought a little compact digital Nikon. I was en-route to the Pacific battlefields, and this exotic destination encouraged me to bring back photographic “testimonies” of my adventures. It became a habit. A Sony Nex7 with a Leitz lens replaced the Nikon, and as I traveled, I documented, on the ‘log’, my ‘battle’ destinations. https://vimeo.com/144753923…
ARCHIVES - December 30, 2014 “During the Vietnam War, Marines would place an ace of spades, the ‘death card,’ on the bodies of slain Vietcong soldiers in an effort to scare any survivors… These Polaroids, kept in several boxes and collected during my reporting in the 1990s, have a similar effect on me. Famine in Rwanda, war in Iraq, American porno actresses and ex-KGB directors are chaotically piled one on…
Yan Morvan is a great photographer. The only problem is that’s he’s unbearable. But behind his endless outrages and provocations lies an unusually cultured man, a genuine tenderness, and the authentic vision of a journalist and photojournalist. Human beings, the other, fascinates him. He is never merely a witness to what he photographs; he is also a part of it. Look at L’oeil du Journal, which he produced for more…
At the beginning of this edition Jean-Jacques Naudet wrote about the “journals en images” of Yan, shot in Arles, at Paris Photo, Visa in Perpignan and elsewhere. Looking at hundreds of images, the smiles strike me. As photographers, we know that most of the time people smile at the camera not us, but here, you all smiled at Yan, not his lens. It has been said that a portrait of…
Good morning ! It's back to school, and only 2 days left... Photographically: it is plethoric and incredibly rich. Financially: it is difficult for some. This is why we are offering you this unique opportunity for new subscribers. An annual subscription at the discount price of 59 euros with the attached code: OEILSEPT24 Please note: you only have until September 25 to take advantage of it. Jean-Jacques Naudet
Álvaro Canovas: Contrasts & Paradoxes Renowned for his work in photojournalism, Álvaro Canovas has made a name for himself by capturing the essence of some of the most significant events in contemporary history. As a photojournalist for major magazines and newspapers, including decades of work at Paris Match, Canovas has built a career characterized by an impressive diversity of subjects and styles, ranging from coverage of global conflicts to intimate…
Galerie XII Los Angeles presents the exhibition Mona Kuhn : The Schindler House, A Love Affair, it includes photography, multimedia and sound installation. The live event was a real success, with 500+ people coming thru to see the large scale projections and the musicians playing live to the multichannel 12 min video projections. Mona Kuhn's portraits visualize an uncanny love story. The enigmatic subject of Kuhn’s solarized pictures is a…
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