As part of its support for the Gilles Caron Foundation, the Bru Foundation is organising an exhibition of the French photojournalist’s colour photographs in Geneva. The recent discovery of a set of Ektachromes by Gilles Caron (1939-1970) throws new light on the relationship between the photographer, best known for his black and white images, and his camera. The prints on show at the exhibition were created on Cibachrome by Roland Dufau, the last remaining specialist of this technique.
“Colour is almost at odds with the idea we have of news reporting, where tradition upholds the values of black and white, to the point that it has become the accepted convention. And yet, since the creation of the Gilles Caron Foundation, we have been working to reconstitute the photographer’s production and new batches of colour images emerge every year. Like his contemporaries, Gilles Caron also worked in colour as the agencies required in the 1960s. However, our culture and our photographic memory have, until now, paid little attention to what colour could specifically express in news report images,” explains Michel Poivert.
EXHIBITION
Gilles Caron, Couleurs
From February 10th to March 5th, 2016
Blondeau et Cie
5, rue de la Muse
1205 Geneva
Switzerland
Monday – Friday 2pm – 6.30pm. Saturday 11am – 5pm
Free Entrance
http://www.blondeau.ch
