Galerie Rouge presents an exhibition of American street photography from the 1950s to the 1970s entitled American Street Photography. Here is the gallery’s introduction:
This is a group exhibition that brings together major photographers of this photographic genre such as Louis Faurer, Jill Freedman, Dave Heath, Danny Lyon, Joseph Sterling and Garry Winogrand. Despite their differences, these photographers have tried, each in their own way, to capture “the spirit of the American people”, in its ups and downs, through the portrait of anonymous people. The street was their photographic playground and allowed them to bear witness to an era marked by great upheavals: from the glorious post-war America, to the militant America marked by the emancipation of racial minorities and the feminist revolution, to the disillusioned America of the 1970s. Among the photographers in the exhibition, some are discreet observers of the world around them; others, on the contrary, enter into confrontation with it, and sometimes adopt a militant approach. All of them have rejected the supposed objectivity of the medium in order to offer a personal view of their contemporaries and the world in which they evolve. This was done by choosing a spontaneous aesthetic in which the photographs, most of them taken on the spot, make no concessions to the people photographed. The street thus becomes the theater of a society that is both torn and unifying, confident and worried.
American Street Photography
from January 23 to March 15, 2025
La Galerie Rouge
3 rue du Pont Louis-Philippe,
75004 Paris
01 42 77 38 24
https://lagalerierouge.paris/
Opening hours:
11am – 7pm from Wednesday to Saturday
