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Les Photaumnales 2014

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The opening of the 11th edition of Photaumnales will be held tomorrow, Saturday, October 4th in Beauvais, France. This year, the association Diaphane has put together a program that’s going to make some noise. The theme is Rock ’n’ Roll: A Photo Album.

Artistic director and festival curator Daniel Challe divided the event into three chapters: “This is England,” “Rock’s Icons” and “The Disciples.” 

Rock’n’Roll, imported from the United States in the 1950s, was a veritable musical revolution in the 20th century. Elvis Presley became one of its major figures, so it was natural to devote an exhibition to him in the “Rock’s Icons” section at the Galerie Nationale de la Tapisserie, with photographs by Robert Bronner, Charles G. Clarke, William C. Mellor and Joseph Biroc taken from the collection of Jean-Marie Pouzenc, creator of the King’s second largest fan club: Elvis My Happiness.

After rock’n’roll fever swept America, the little island of Great Britain was the next to get hit. The results, in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, was The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Animals and, later, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. Six exhibitions make up the “This is England” chapter of the festival. The program is 100% British with Jocelyn Bain Hogg, Peter Dench, Daniel Meadows, Chris Steele-Perkins, Anna Fox and the indispensable Martin Parr. 

More than 25 exhibitions will be on display in and around Beauvais for the 2014 edition of Les Photaumnales. 

The festival runs through January 11th, 2015.

Rock’n’roll, two magic verbs and a letter in the middle to evoke every atmosphere: urban, night, rainy, melancholy or sunny. SUN as in the studio in Memphis where Elvis Presley, in July 1954, recorded That’s All Right Mama , the founding single. SUN, the source of light that gives us the image: all those photographs tattooed in our hearts that are the legends, the visual novel of Rock’n’roll.
The twentieth century gave us the Leica and the Gibson guitar (the first amplified guitar), instant photography and electricity. Rock’n’roll is a sketch of the present time, voice and sound mixed, reportage. Such is the stance underlying this 2014 edition of Photaumnales, Rock’n’roll: A Photo Album, to evoke the urgency, the frontal attack that the late Joe Strummer, lead singer of The Clash, alluded to in an interview : « We would pick up stuff out of newspapers to write our songs. Even our name came from the press ».
Three parts mark the beat of this story : This is England, Rock Icons and The Disciples, like so many pieces of a puzzle where the presented photographers compose a great song in images and sound. ROCK’N’ROLL, reeling, pitching, expressing desire, the body, life, energy. Let this 2014 edition of Photaumnales be first and foremost a whole lot of fun for everyone. BEAUVAIS CALLING ! 
Daniel Challe, Photographer, Guest Curator

 

FESTIVAL
Les Photaumnales 2014
From September 27th, 2014 to January 11th, 2015
Association Diaphane

16, rue de Paris
60600 Clermont-de-l’Oise
France
Tel. : 09 83 56 34 41
[email protected]
http://www.photaumnales.fr

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