When Bruno Barbey arrived in 1966, Deauville, still under the projectors, revealed itself in a new light. A few months before, the movie A Man and a Woman by Claude Lelouch film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival. Bruno Barbey encounters and renders the rituals of the summer of 1966. He roams beaches and boardwalks, goes to the races, photographs the owners, the players and the jockeys. He also photographs the final of the Polo Tournament, where at a distance he observes the intimate conversations of Jean-Claude Brialy, Régine and Marie Bell, or those of Maurice Chevalier with Lucien Barrière. He restitutes the atmosphere of La Nuit de la fourrure in a festive and elegant casino, mingles with his British colleagues for the arrival, at the Deauville airport, of Prince Philip of Edinburgh, before attending the yearling sales.
With this same curiosity, whetted by 50 years of reporting, Bruno Barbey returns to capture the Deauville of the spring and summer of 2015. For Contact Sheet(s) 2015, Bruno Barbey will exhibit this singular project illustrating 50 years of photographic practice.
FESTIVAL
Planche(s) Contact
Bruno Barbey
Le Point de Vue
From October 17th to November 29th, 2015
Ville de Deauville
France
http://www.deauville-photo.fr
