Laure Albin Guillot in her last home
The photographer is exposed in the retirement home where she finished her days. A moving opportunity to (re) discover her works.
A few steps from the rooms of the retirement home, the Maison Nationale des Artistes of Nogent-sur-Marne, are presented forty photographs of Laure Albin Guillot. Exhibited in the living room and the corridor, they tell how much was extended the area of the photographer’s eye. Gifted at the same time for portrait and for wider studies, around a subject, she managed to make elegant clichés which proved her know-how as well as her avant-garde position. Laure Albin Guillot had learned from her husband the micrograph. Around 1925, for example, she photographed a horse shoe horn or a seed, and pushed photography to take its first steps in abstraction, as her contemporaries Man Ray and Brassaï would do.
Jean-Baptiste Gauvin
Laure Albin Guillot – Artisan of Art of Photography
This exhibition was co-produced by the Jeu de Paume and the National Foundation of Graphic Arts and Plastics and organized with the support of the City of Paris.
Laure Albin Guillot – Artisan of Art of Photography
September 13 – November 25, 2018
Maison Nationale des Artistes
14, rue CharlesVII
94130 Nogent-sur-Marne, France
