He was one of the most vehement ludions of this young French photography which was created in the middle of the Seventies, an amazing […]…
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For 35 years Robert Pujade will lead conferences and debates at festivals.He focuses here on the birth of French photographic criticism through Michel Nuridsany, […]…
My first memories of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles date back to 1976, for the 7th edition. I was 13 and already working in the administrative offices…
The idea here is that I was in Arles in 1975. I had just read that Van Gogh went crazy in the noon-day sun of Arles. So I decided to…
Do you know Arles? And the Mistral? Not Frédéric Mistral, who stands waiting for the train in Place du Forum, but the northerly wind. Mistral + photofolio review + Cour…
In 1972, I sent a copy of my first book "The Dream Collector" to Michel Tournier, after reading his novel "The ogre", about a french prisoner of war who collect…
He was not very handsome, he was poor, he was thin. His name was Lucien Clergue. I was beautiful, courted and a stewardess. There […]…
The time of friends 1970-1973 When a small group of enthusiasts, gathered since the day before in the city of Alyscamps, entered the Réattu […]…
It is the mother of all Arles exhibitions. The one that gave birth to everything. The 1st, that of Edward Weston. The one from […]…
In 1976, I attended my first festival in Arles and told it as is in PHOTO. René Burri saw his colleagues become stars « Arles […]…