Jean-Claude Marguerite sends us this portfolio accompanied by this text: At the beginning of the 2000s, I lived a stone's throw from the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. On my first walk, I was struck by the self-importance displayed by the male busts, almost all made on the same model. I then began to photograph the female statuary, in black and white and in 6x6. I moved shortly after, and another…
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Seen on the Corridor Éléphant website this portfolio by Bruno Dumas. He writes : How to explain, or even develop meaning in a speech where just the second is the most important. The instant, so furtive an instinct, challenges our eyes to what must be, perhaps a good image, a beautiful illustration. But this second, just this second when I think I have brushed against the Holy of the Holy…
Éric Alcyon presents the new version of his photographic series Utopia II. This series focuses on the economic crisis of Greek sovereign debt. Born in 1968, Eric Alcyon discovered photography while studying in Quebec, continued at the University of Paris 8-Vincennes, accompanied by commissions and exhibitions, notably at the Mai de la photographie de Reims with a series entitled Hypermarché which shows his interest in the "Thatcher years photographers" such…
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After 10 years of activity as a photographer and 20 spent in the world of images, Céline Andrea has just released her first book. The editor Paul Luro presents it like this! Here is Céline Andrea's very first monographic book, edited and published by Normal Magazine (Editions Incarnatio). It brings together on 184 pages, the most artistic work of the artist, her most personal shots far from the fashion campaigns.…
Thorsten Wulff is an absolute matchmaker. Not sure which year we met exactly, but it’s been a few years down the road already. When it comes to photography, what never fails to impress me are the wide variety of cameras, techniques, and places that Wulff masters in his work. Analogue, digital, darkroom, on location, on site – he does it all. Pair that with his gentle nature, large network, and…
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On June 17, 2022, la Galerie Coutaz inaugurated its space at 7 rue Balechou in Arles. The Gallery presents an exhibition of Denis Brihat, godfather of the gallery. A major photographer of the second half of the 20th century, the artist, or rather “The man of the craft” as he says, participated in the emancipation of photography in contemporary art from the beginning of the 1960s Settling in Bonnieux in 1958,…
Colette Pourroy unveils the 4th part of her family saga, which will be presented during the first week of the Rencontres d'Arles, with the simultaneous publication of the book L'ombre de Kate, published by André Frère, and an exhibition L'ombre de Kate, from 22 black and white photos, printed by Andres Romero. The Absent Face by Fabien Ribery In the beginning there was darkness, then hollowness, then a blinding…
The Atlas in Motion presents the work carried out by Mathieu Pernot for more than ten years with migrants and offers a new perspective in the way of representing them. Astronomy, botany, anatomy, cartography, the history of writing, the question of habitat are summoned in this atlas as knowledge common to all of humanity. A common knowledge that is embodied here by individuals with singular destinies encountered by the author.…
The Rencontres d’Arles present, for the first time in France, the exhibition A Feminist Avant-Garde. Photographs and Performances of the 1970s from the Verbund Collection, Vienna, with over 200 works by 71 female artists. The exhibition title refers to “an” Avant-Garde, one containing a multitude of feminist movements, diverse in age, nationality, and culture. Feminisms are also considered in intersectional terms because some of those female artists have experienced, and continue…
Between 1978 and 1989, Mitch Epstein made eight trips to India and shot thousands of photographs. The result is an extensive body of work that shows Epstein’s unusual dual vantage in an extraordinarily complicated culture: Through his Indian family life and work, he was both an insider and outsider. These photographs, many of which are exhibited here for the first time, show a wide swath of subcultures which Epstein was…
In a week, the 53rd Rencontres d'Arles Festival will open. We are devoting the whole week to it. The first indications: an interesting but very artistic program. All the other components of photography have almost disappeared. Decision-making centers have become multiple and decentralized. It is no longer the Rencontres d’Arles Festival but that of the whole region. The Off, open, creative, free and friendly seems dead, replaced by a pack…
Kristian Gavoille : Photographer by accident. Born on the Congo River, Kristian Gavoille grew up on the Mediterranean coast. If he studied architecture and design, he dreamed long before that of becoming an oceanographer, then a sailing instructor in Banyuls sur Mer, his grandmother's village. In the end, destiny decided otherwise, and he also became a photographer. In 1986, he started as Philippe Starck's main collaborator before opening his own…
Those looking for the infinite or transcendence are unlikely to find it during bus journeys or football matches, at the Pier Head ferry terminal of the Mersey River, or in the shipyard changing rooms. As for those looking for a deterministic logic, a sociological and political statement about England, they will find here and there visual information about a specific period and place. Tom Wood enables us to escape the…
Serge Assier: he is one of the last mythical figures of Mediterranean photography. Often ignored, sometimes mistreated like last year by a few ignorant town hall employees who wanted to throw away his archives, which fortunately the State and Heritage have recovered. Aware of the passage of time and always in search of a more than deserved recognition, this year he rented a place to show his images in Arles…
If there is no established definition, the notion of wild habitats, chosen by the artist to qualify the living places of the people she met, allows both to embrace the complexity of her approach and the heterogeneity of the situations observed. As opposed to the notion of home, which refers to the idea of a conventional house, that of savage testifies to a desire to be part of an unconventional…
This exhibition, whose title "the blind spot" refers to the Mariotte blind spot (the only place of the retina that does not see), is the culmination of the unprecedented research carried out by the photographer and visual artist Jacqueline Salmon on an object central and yet very absent from research in Art History: the perizonium. Attached to the figure of Christ, this loincloth is both a veil of modesty, a…
The selfie is a photographic genre within everyone's reach. Its vocation is to talk about oneself in the best possible circumstances. The opposite would be strange. However, it only shows an apparent truth where staging occupies a deceptive place. The purpose of this series is to go against usage, where it is impossible to cheat. The women represented appear naked, without artifice, lying on their sofa. They choose their positions…
Selected by Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) at the end of his life, the photographs in the exhibition L'expérience du paysage(The Landscape Experience) testify to the artist's approach to what is not simply a setting to observe human being, but a subject in its own right. Each of these images, taken between the 1930s and the 1990s in Europe, Asia and America, illustrates the construction of landscape by the photographer, whether natural…
From the North Sea to the Mediterranean, it is an iodized breath that crosses the Galerie Roger-Viollet thanks to an unpublished series of panoramic and stereoscopic colored photographs. These images, taken from 1860 until the early 1900s, depict a very different perception of the sea whether you are a summer holidaymaker in Nice or a shrimp fisherman in Calais. At that time, in the minds of most people, the French…
Meryl Meisler’s QUIRKYVISION will be installed at Le Palais des Congrès of Vichy during the PORTRAIT(S) Tenth Annual Festival in Vichy, France, from June 24 through September 4, 2022. Impertinent and humorous, Meryl Meisler plunges us into a captivating city and time, 1970s and 1980s New York. Her shots celebrate disco evenings and strip-tease clubs, her Jewish family and Long Island suburb, or life in a public school in one…