21 September - 23 December, 2006
In 1943, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, believing Cartier-Bresson had been killed during the war, organized a "posthumous" exhibition of his work. Cartier-Bresson had, in fact, escaped, and in 1946 began working on an exhibition involving a scrapbook containing 346 prints. Forty year later, aware of the signjificance of the scrapbook, Cartier-Bresson once again became interested in it and removed most of the prints in order to protect and restore them. Today, this outstanding set of prints belongs to the HCB Foundation, which has reassembled the scrapbook.
Curator : Agnès Sire, Director the HCB Fondation.
Catalogue published by Steidl
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
www.henricartierbresson.org
2 impasse Lebouis, 14th.
Metro : Gaîté
Telephone : 01 56 80 27 00
Open daily except Mondays and November 1st from 1:00 pm to 6:30 pm. Wednesdays until 8:30 pm.
Admission: 5 € - Reduced rate: 3 €
Looking at Vu, A Photographic Magazine, 1928-1940
2 November, 2006 - 25 February, 2007
The illustrated weekly magazine VU was at the forefront of the 1920s communications revolution. Its founders believed that it could deliver an objective vision of the world through extensive use of photography. The contribution of independent photographers (including Kertész, Man Ray, Krull, Lotar and Brassaï), the use of large numbers of agency pictures, the boldness of its layout, the invention of the "photo-reportage" and the quality of its printing in photogravure all reflect a daring editorial approach that remains unique in the history of publishing.
This exhibition is jointly produced by the MEP and the Nicéphore Niépce Museum in Chalon-sur-Saône, where it will be shown in March 2007.
Curators: Michel Frizot, photography historian and director of research at the CNRS, and Cédric de Veigy, lecturer and researcher in photography and cinema.
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
www.mep-fr.org
5/7 rue de Fourcy, 4th.
Metro : Saint-Paul ou Pont Marie
Telephone : 01 44 78 75 00
Open daily except Mondays, Tuesdays and public holidays from 11:00 am to 7:30 pm.
Admission: 6 € - Reduced rate: 3 €
The Odyssey of an Icon. Three Photographs by André Kertész
2 November - 31 December, 2006
Drawing from the André Kertész archive, which was bequeathed to the French state in 1985 and is managed and conserved by the Médiathèque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, this exhibition explores the history of three images from the artist's Parisian period : Chez Mondrian (1926), Study of a Fork (1928) and Distortion n° 6 (1933).
These images have appeared in so many magazines, newspapers and catalogues that they have become twentieth century photographic icons. The exhibition looks at the context in which they were taken and the different stages of production (negatives, variants and original contact prints), Vintage prints and variants from the collections of the Chicago Art Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Musée national d'Art Moderne in Paris, will also be on display.
Curator : Anne de Mondenard, Médiathèque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine.
Catalogue published by Actes Sud and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, with the assistance of Canson-Arches paper (Arjowiggins group).
Exhibition produced in collaboration with the Médiathèque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, based on the Kertész donation to the Ministry of Culture; distribution by the Jeu de paume.
Maison Européenne de la Photographie
www.mep-fr.org
5/7 rue de Fourcy, 4th.
Metro : Saint-Paul ou Pont Marie
Telephone : 01 44 78 75 00
Open daily except Mondays, Tuesdays and public holidays from 11:00 am to 7:30 pm.
Admission: 6 € - Reduced rate: 3 €
A Visual Weapon. Soviet Photomontages 1917-1953
25 October, 2006 - 7 January, 2007
This exhibition shows how the changing style of Russian photomontages reflects changes in the political system and daily life in the Soviet Union from the 1917 Revolution until Stalin's death in 1953. It is in three parts: photomontages by great Soviet artists from the 1920s and '30s (Rodchenko, El Lissitsky, Galadzev, Tereshenko and Stepanova); anonymous photomontages used in schools and factories; and photomontages dating from World War II.
Curators : Olga Slibova, Director of the Moscow House of Photography, and Michel Levin.
Passage de Retz
www.passagederetz.com
9 rue Charlot, 3rd.
Metro : Filles du Calvaire
Telephone : 01 48 04 37 99
Open Tuesday - Sunday 10:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Admission: 8 € - Reduced rate: 5 €
Heartfield. Photomontages
9 November - 9 December, 2006
John Heartfield (1891-1968) first used photomontage in the 1920s and developed the technique by creating book covers for his brother's publishing house, Malik Editions. From 1930 on, he worked for AIZ, an illustrated newspaper for workers. Here he first criticized the social democracy of the Weimar Republic, focusing on unemployment, political opportunism and the play of forces that brought Hitler to power, and then attacked National Socialism and its lies, virulently pointing out the way liberties had been undermined. His technical virtuosity and his relentless protest made Heartfield one of the principal advocates of photomontage as well as a pioneer of the artistic avant-garde.
Curator : David Fleiss.
Catalogue published by Galerie 1900 / 2000.
Galerie 1900 / 2000
www.galerie1900-2000.com
8 rue Bonaparte, 6th.
Metro : Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Telephone : 01 43 25 84 20
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 am to12:30 pm and Monday 2:00 pm. to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
Roman Vishniac. The World that Disappeared
22 November, 2006 - 18 February, 2007
L'exposition est réalisée en collaboration avec l'International Center of Photography de New York, détenteur du fonds Vishniac. Elle présente une sélection représentative de photographies réalisées en Europe orientale dans les années 30. Constituant un formidable document historique, Roman Vishniac nous livre un regard de dernière minute sur des êtres humains, juste avant que la fureur nazie ne les anéantisse.
"Je savais qu'il était de mon devoir de faire en sorte que ce monde disparu ne s'efface pas complètement…" (R. Vishniac)
Curator : Laurence Sigal, Director of the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme.
Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme
www.mahj.org
71 rue du Temple, 3rd.
Metro : Rambuteau.
Telephone : 01 53 01 86 53
Open daily except Saturdays from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm and Sundays from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Admission: 5,50 € - Reduced rate: 4 €
Things As They Are. Photojournalism and the Press, 1955-2005
15 November - 12 December, 2006
This exhibition marks the 50th anniversary of the World Press Photo award. This prestigious annual prize is awarded by a panel of photo experts and members of the international press in Amsterdam, who select images from a variety of categories covering the events of the previous months. As well as reflecting fifty years of history, the exhibition tells the story of the press via magazine covers and pages, reproductions of illustrated features, original prints and (on video screens) photos and films relating to the events in the photos.
Curator: Christian Caujolle, Founder and Director of the VU' agency.
Catalogue published by Chris Boot Editions.
Passage du Désir
85-87 rue du faubourg Saint Martin, 10th.
Metro : Château d'Eau ou Gare de l'Est
Telephone : 01 56 41 39 95
Open daily except Tuesdays from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
Portraits of Che. Cuban Prints, 1959-1964
29 October - 2 December, 2006
This exhibition coincides with the publication of a book of Che Guevara's early portraits in the series entitled "carnets du Rhinocéros"; all the books in the series are on show. In the months following Che Guevara's death in 1967, some of these portraits, thanks to Feltrinelli, were reproduced and enlarged in huge quantities. But Che Guevara was also photographed later during the eight short years between the Cuban revolution in 1959 and his death, and these less famous portraits were published in newspapers.
Curator : Franco Il Gaucho.
Carnet Latino published by Rhinocéros.
Librairie Plantureux
www.sergeplantureux.fr
4 galerie Vivienne, 2th.
Metro : Bourse
Telephone : 01 53 29 92 00
Open daily except Sundays and Mondays from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Free admission
Edouard Boubat, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier and Jean-Louis Swiners : Photographers for Réalités
2 November - 23 December, 2006
Réalités was an illustrated magazine published from 1947 until 1973. It had a wide readership and considered itself part of the written press. Its main photographers, Edouard Boubat and Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, are better known today via exhibitions and sales of their original prints; Jean-Louis Swiners later abandoned photography to take up a different career. Their photographs were not simply intended to illustrate articles; they pioneered the idea of the "photographic essay."
Curator : Agathe Gaillard.
Galerie Agathe Gaillard
www.agathegaillard.com
3 rue du Pont Louis-Philippe, 4th.
Metro : Saint-Paul
Telephone : 01 42 77 38 24
Open Tuesday - Saturday 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Closed 14 - 18 November.
Free admission
Humanist Photography (1945-1968). Izis, Boubat, Brassaï, Doisneau, Ronis and others
31 October, 2006 - 28 January, 2007
In addition to original prints by famous photographers (including Doisneau, Ronis, Cartier-Bresson, Boubat and Izis), this exposition presents photos by lesser-known but equally prolific and talented artists who were also representative of the humanist movement, in particular Marcel Bovis, René-Jacques, Jean Dieuzaide, Janine Niepce, Sabine Weiss, Jean Marquis, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Léon Herschtritt, Eric Schwab and André Papillon.
These humanist photographers created imagery with a strong national feel, thanks to picturesque settings and social archetypes, but they also explored the realities of the era: the misery of impoverished suburbs, the housing crisis, international magazines that broadened people's horizons, etc.
Curators : Laure Beaumont-Maillet (chief curator); Dominique Versavel (department curator; head of the photography collections for 1930-1960); Françoise Denoyelle, historian and professor at the École Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière.
Catalogue published by the BnF
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Site Richelieu, Galerie de photographie
www.bnf.fr
58 rue de Richelieu, 2th.
Metro : Bourse ou Palais Royal
Telephone : 01 53 79 81 12
Open daily except Mondays and public holidays from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm and Sundays from 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Admission: 7 € - Reduced rate: 5 €
Jean Dieuzaide. Body and Souls
2 November - 9 December, 2006
Jean Dieuzaide's first piece of work as a photographer was a report on the liberation of Toulouse in September 1944. He is well known for his photographs of Provence, which earned him an exhibition at the Bibliothèque Nationale in 1946 and a commission for his first book, La Gascogne, from Arthaud publishers. Recognized as a photographic illustrator specializing in the cultural heritage of the Mediterranean, Dieuzaide produced a body of work that is personal, humanistic and sensitive. He endeavoured to raise the profile of photography, taking part in the creation of the Libre Expression group in 1964, helping to found the Arles photography festival in 1970, and opening the Château d'Eau gallery in Toulouse in 1974. This exhibition includes original prints and rare books from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Curators : Michèle and Odile Aittouarès.
Catalogue published by Galerie Aittouarès.
Galerie Berthet Aittouarès
www.galerie-ba.com
29 rue de Seine, 6th.
Metro : Odéon ou Mabillon.
Telephone : 01 43 26 53 09
Open daily except Sundays and Mondays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
A History of Advertising. Photography in France from Man Ray to Jean-Paul Goude
8 November, 2006 - 25 March, 2007
The exhibition turns the spotlight on advertising photography, focusing on the history of an area that is all too often forgotten or overlooked. Organized chronologically, it begins with the first great publicity photographers, such as François Kollar and Emmanuel Sougez. After the war, photography began to be used for ads in the press, and for promoting ordinary consumer goods instead of just luxury products. The importance of colour from the 1960s on is reflected in the work of Guy Bourdin, Jean-Loup Sieff, Jean-Paul Goude and Serge Lutens. Today, advertising photography can be obsessive or provocative, as seen in the work of its youngest practitioners: Jean-Marie Vives and Dmitri Daniloff.
Curator: Amélie Gastout, curator at the Musée de la Publicité.
Catalogue published by Les Arts Décoratifs.
Musée de la publicité. Les arts décoratifs
www.lesartsdécoratifs.fr
107 rue de Rivoli, 1er.
Metro : Palais Royal, Tuileries and Pyramide.
Telephone : 01 44 55 57 50
Open daily except Mondays from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Admission: 8 € - Reduced rate: 6,45 €
Free admission for children under 18
Antonio Caballero. Cité Novela
30 November - 23 December, 2006
Mexican photographer Antonio Caballero was born in 1940. His work presents an original and highly unusual vision of Mexico City, with intensely expressive faces conveying a sense of passion or despair and showing the place in a strange and unexpected light. Antonio Caballero acted as producer, director and photographer for his 'photo novels', making over 500 of them between 1963 and 1978.
Curator: Françoise Morin, artistic director of the Ville Ouverte.
Catalogue published by Toluca.
Galerie Polaris
www.galeriepolaris.com
8 rue Saint-Claude, 3th.
Metro : Saint-Sébastien Froissart
Telephone : 01 42 72 21 27
Open daily except Mondays, and Sundays from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Saturdays from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm and from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
László Lugo Lugosi. Budapest 1900-2000
15 November - 16 December, 2006
Born in 1953, László Lugo Lugosi began working as a professional photographer in 1985. In 2000, he produced a series of photographs of Budapest shot from the same angle as pictures taken by György Klösz a century before. This exhibition shows how the city has changed, presenting the photographs produced in 1900 and those made in 2000 side by side. It also gives an insight into the different stages of the project and the equipment used.
Curator : Mihály Rózsa.
Catalogue published by Institut Hongrois.
Institut Hongrois de Paris
www.instituthongrois.fr
92 rue Bonaparte, 6th.
Metro : Mabillon ou Saint-Sulpice
Telephone : 01 43 26 06 44
Ouvert tous les jours sauf dimanche de 9h à 20h. Vendredi de 9h à 19h. Samedi de 14h à 19h.
Entrée libre
Parisians at the Time of the Commune, 1871. Collection de la Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris
9 November, 2006 - 4 February, 2007
In the spring of 1871, civil war broke out in Paris when the Communards refused to capitulate to the Prussians and revolted against the government. Hyppolite Blancard, a wealthy pharmacist with a passion for photography, made a unique photographic record of the uprising: it was the first time an event of this kind had been photographed in France. A set of some 500 glass plates made by Blancard were later discovered among the treasures of the BHVP (Paris History Library). They show the historic events as they occurred and provide fascinating glimpses of 19th century Paris.
Curator : Jean Baronnet.
Catalogue published by Paris Bibliothèque and Gallimard.
Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris, salle d'exposition
22 rue Malher, 4th.
Metro : Saint-Paul
Telephone : 01 44 59 29 40
Open daily except Mondays from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Admission: 4 € - Reduced rate: 2 €
Touring Paris. Aerial Views by Roger Henrard
7 November, 2006 - 7 January, 2007
This exhibition presents 50 aerial views of Paris by Roger Henrard, famous both for his courage and virtuosity as a pilot and for his skill as a photographer. This hitherto unpublished collection provides a unique insight into Parisian architecture and planning, showing the face of post-war Paris as it looked in the 1970s. Magazines, publications and postcards featuring Roger Henrard's photographs are also on display.
Curator : Catherine Tambrun, assisted by Marie-Agnès le Stunff and Jean-Baptiste Woloch
Catalogue published by Dominique Carré and Paris Musées.
Musée Carnavalet
23 rue de Sévigné, 3th.
Metro : Saint-Paul or Chemin Vert
Telephone : 01 44 59 58 58
Open daily except Mondays from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Free admission
“Alain Paviot. 30 Catalogues, 30 Years of Images
9 November - 23 December, 2006
Since the Paviot Gallery first opened in 1975, it has published many catalogues to accompany its exhibitions. As well as providing a record of exhibitions and being of interest to bibliophiles, many of these catalogues have become precious reference documents, reflecting both the history of photography and the changing photography market. Where possible, photographic prints are presented alongside the catalogues, giving an insight into the subtle nuances that distinguish an original photo from its catalogue reproduction, and showing how the two forms of representation are interlinked.
Curator : Françoise Paviot
Galerie Françoise Paviot
www.paviotfoto.com
57 rue Sainte-Anne, 2nd.
Metro : Quatre September or Pyramides
Telephone : 01 42 60 10 01
Open from Thursdays to Saturdays from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
Les repreneurs : photographies de second œil 1925-2006
À juste titre : ouvrages de références, 1855-2006
8 November, 2006 - 6 January, 2007
The first part of this exhibition includes original photographs made by artists who have revisited published images and given them a new lease of life. The second part pays tribute to exemplary works from the history of photography, and to a number of contemporary photo-book publishers.
Curator : Michèle Chomette.
Galerie Michèle Chomette
www.associationdesgaleries.org
24 rue Beaubourg, 3rd.
Metro : Rambuteau, les Halles or Hôtel de Ville
Telephone : 01 42 78 05 62
Open daily except Mondays, Tuesdays and Sundays from 2:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
Free admission
Highlights. Collection of the National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen
27 October - 3 December, 2006
It took a long time for photography to be recognized as an independent means of artistic expression in Denmark, and books have offered photographers a useful alternative to galleries as a way of getting their work known. This exhibition includes prints and a selection of photography books.
Curator : Robert Delpire, art director and publisher.
Maison du Danemark
www.maisondudanemark.dk
142 avenue des Champs-Élysées, 8th.
Metro : George V or Étoile
Telephone : 01 56 59 17 44
Open daily except Mondays from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Free admission
The Photographic Enigma of
Man Ray
3 November - 29, November 2006
Man Ray's photographs of objects are not merely visual records; their composition, cropping and lighting make them into works of art in their own right. Rather than underlining the relationship between an object and its representation, Man Ray transforms the object, creating new forms that were included in the books he illustrated. This exhibition includes objects, photographs of them, and the books in which they were reproduced. It highlights several essential aspects of Man Ray's work and points to the relationship between sculpture, photography and literature.
Curator : Marion Meyer.
Reprint, in facsimile form, of Man Ray's book, La photographie n'est pas l'art (1937).
Galerie Marion Meyer
www.galerie-marion-meyer.com
15, rue Guénégaud, 6th.
Metro : Odéon
Telephone : 01 46 33 04 38
Open daily except Sundays and Mondays from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
Ralph Gibson. Journey
2 November - 9 December, 2006
Born in Los Angeles in 1939, Ralph Gibson discovered the magic of light as a very young boy on the Warner Brothers film sets where his father worked, After leaving home at the age of sixteen, he joined the Marines and was sent to the Army's photography school in Pensacola, Florida. In 1959 he returned home to attend the California School of Fine Arts and began working as Dorothea Lange's assistant. Gibson's photographs--studies of light and dark, images calmly exploring a subject or individual theme such as a face, a vase or the curves of the female body--do not resemble those of his contemporaries. Ralph Gibson also created his own publishing company (Lustrum Press). For him, books are an autonomous means of expression and the ideal medium for the photographer.
Curator : Charles Zalber.
Galerie Lucie Weill & Seligmann
www.galerie-lws.com
6 rue Bonaparte, 6th.
Metro : Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Telephone : 01 43 54 71 95
Open daily except Sundays and Mondays from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Free admission