Pierre de Fenoÿl, born in 1945, devoted his life to photography. Driven by an irresistible passion, he worked actively to ensure that photography would be recognised by institutions in the…
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From his early travels in India and Egypt to his exploration of the Southwest as part of a mission for DATAR mission, a national organization which oversees land use and…
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Pierre de Fenoÿl set off for New York in late 1971 with a contract as picture editor for the magazine Photo. He stayed for one year, visiting museums and galleries,…
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Following his trip to India, Pierre de Fenoÿl Founded, with Charles-Henri Favrod, the agency vu (which became viva), whose members included William Klein, Edouard Boubat, Guy le Querrec, Hervé Gloaguen, Claude…
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In 1983, Pierre de Fenoÿl was awarded a grant from the Centre national de la photographie to photograph Egypt, following in the footsteps of Félix Teynard and Maxime Du Camp,…
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For Pierre de Fenoÿl photography was the art of receiving, unlike the arts of extractionthat are painting and literature. To achieve this state of reception, he practiced intensively the act…
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Iconographer, curator, art buyer, founder of the Galerie Rencontre and the Agence Vu (now Viva), Pierre de Fenoÿl was appointed, in 1976, the first director of France’s National Photography Foundation,…
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Looking at Pierre de Fenoÿl’s landscape photographs is unsettling and enchanting while being strangely familiar. That’s one of the photographer’s great feats. Through the repeated and ever-changing precision of his…
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Newly arrived in Paris, I met Pierre de Fenoÿl in 1970. I was sent to see him by someone I had shown my portfolio to. I was 26, Pierre was…
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We were twenty years old I photographed the world and my world was my friends .1976 Alberto Garcia-Alix received his first camera. He decided to capture the moment , the…
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