When Baudoin Lebon asked me to organize an exhibition on the Bauret family, we considered bringing the works together around the theme of the studio. The idea, for me, was to show the photographs Jean-François Bauret had taken at the end of the 1950s in the studios of artists our father used to visit. He would enrich this precious set of accounts through other subsequent meetings. This choice was a way to tell the beginning of his story with photography, but also a way to pay tribute to our father, who was a guide to both of us, and to whom Jean-François regularly made reference during our conversations. Now Jean-François is gone and I feel in some ways like a double orphan, since for me he was like another father, one who opened the doors for me into the world of photography.
Gabriel Bauret
The funeral of Jean-François Bauret be held on Wednesday, January 9th, 2014 in Fontenay Mauvoisin (Yvelines).
Read the interview with Jean-François Bauret conducted during the exhibition “Atelier Bauret – un eprit de famille ?” (Realisation by Claude Mossessian) :
http://vimeo.com/61826144
More informations about the exhibition “Atelier Bauret – un eprit de famille ?” :
http://www.baudoin-lebon.com/fr/expositions/presentationarchives/65/ateliers-bauret
