The work in this exhibition at the Hotel Scribe, in Paris, are Dye Transfer photographs selected by Jean-Luc Monterosso from the collection of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie from Ralph Gibson’s 1991 book and exhibition entitled L’Histoire de France. In her long introduction to the book, author Marguerite Duras wrote: “…you have taken no notice of monumental France; I am quite happy about that, really happy about that. But the smoked fish on the background of a Blue Shirt, I could not have imagined it. Then there’s this woman who is everywhere in R.G.’s books: her face us between twenty and ten thousand years old. She is naked. She looks at no one. She faces the desert. She is beyond R.G., toward the South. Sometimes her eyes are closed. Sometimes almost closed. Between the two eyelids, the sun flows like water. This woman is alone with Bocuse and Lumière, in the book of photographs, in France…”
Ralph Gibson, L’Histoire de France
Through February 12, 2017
Hôtel Scribe
1 Rue Scribe
75009 Paris
France
