To coincide with a retrospective published by Editions le bec en l’air, gallery Camera Obscura is hosting a third exhibition of Denis Brihat’s work entitled “L’Offrande visuelle”, showing a set of prints selected from his workshop including a dozen rare images from the 1960s.
Brihat’s photography is an aesthetic quest that relies on significant manual input during the development process in the laboratory, the possibilities of which he explored and extolled.
In the 1960s, he was undoubtedly the first French photographer to devote himself exclusively to photography conceived to be hung on walls, images claiming the status of art in the same way as painting. He invented the term “photographic painting” and attempted to produce single prints. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs exhibited 116 of those prints in 1965.
