Central Dupon laboratory is holding an exhibition dedicated to Alain Balmayer. It runs through April 30th, 2015. Born in 1930, Balmayer, aka Balmy, taught himself photography in the 1950s. Co-founder of the “Groupe des Huit” in 1958, his work appeared in several exhibitions in France and Europe, and he contributed to magazines like Foto, Foto-Prisma, Photo-Revue and Photo-Cinéma.
Starting in 1970, Balmayer devoted himself to black-and-white landscape photography, which he printed himself. His photographs are known for their absence of verticality and blur, and for a skyline that is central to many of his compositions. He founded the Icart Photo school in 1984. In 2012, Alain asked me to teach third-year students there, and I gladly accepted, thinking back to my years at the School of Visual Arts in New York. One day, one of my students asked the staff of the school, including Balmayer himself, to pose nude. He agreed without flinching. This story shows the openness and generosity of a man whose photographs draws inspiration from the work of Mondrian.
EXHIBITION
Hommage à Alain Balmayer
From 2nd to 30th April, 2015
Central Dupon Images
74, rue Joseph de Maistre
75018 Paris
France
From Monday to Friday 9am-7pm
