His name: Denis Barrau. He was engaged as a volunteer assistant by Lucien Clergue in 1974 at the Rencontres d’Arles. At that time, he and his friend Philippe Dumoulin took…
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In 2009-10, I presented a George Rodger exhibition in London. I wanted to make it something truly special and different from the other exhibitions […]…
I had sent to the Rencontres d'Arles a slideshow of my pictures created by the Pompidou Centre, and which had already been screened there. I had recently become editor-in-chief of…
At twenty, the years are our only baggage Experience comes from the parents We take nothing seriously We always run after happiness Love is […]…
He was one of the most vehement ludions of this young French photography which was created in the middle of the Seventies, an amazing […]…
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…