3 October, 2006 - 14 January, 2007
The first exhibition in Europe of colour photographs by New York photographer Joel Meyerowitz, this includes a selection of pictures produced between 1970 and 1980, a transitional period Meyerowitz considers pivotal to his career and his art. Over this ten-year period he reflected on the photographic medium, exploring new aesthetic avenues and developing a new style. An interactive catalogue will be available to the public; this experimental publication will enable each visitor to select forty images and create his or her own personal exhibition catalogue.
Curators: Joel Meyerowitz and Régis Durand, Director of the Jeu de Paume.
Catalogue published by the Jeu de Paume and HP.
Jeu de paume - Hötel de Sully
www.jeudepaume.org
62 rue Saint Antoine, 4th arrondissement.
Metro : Saint-Paul or Bastille
Telephone : 01 47 03 12 50/52
Open daily except public holidays from 12:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Mondays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Admission: 5 € - Reduced rate: 2.50 €
Pierre Etaix. Clowns and Cinema
26 October- 21 December, 2006
As well as being part of the circus tradition, clowns have always been connected with the cinema, especially burlesque cinema. Most also have strong associations with music-hall. Here, Pierre Etaix lovingly pays tribute to clowns, retracing their history and pointing out connections between them via toys, dolls, and small sculptures made by Etaix himself which he places in cleverly lit miniature period settings.
Curator: Victor Ede.
Catalogue published by In LibriS.
Galerie Serge Aboukrat
7 place de Furstemberg, 6th arrondissement.
Metro : Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Open daily except Saturdays from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
François Delebecque. Photographs and Children's Books
7 November- 25 November, 2006
"Photography gets close to reflecting a 'Reality' that is the 'Real Truth' for children. Through poetic scenes staged with a teddy bear or miniature boats, I try to show children another reality in which imagination, poetry and humour gently lead them to think differently about the world around them. I also want to bring an element of doubt into their perception of reality, to show them the way to an imaginary world..."
François Delebecque
Curator : Jean-Pierre Soares.
Galerie En Marge
92 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 10th arrondissement.
Metro : Parmentier or Couronnes
Telephone : 01 77 10 78 12
Open daily except Mondays, Tuesdays and Sundays from midday to 8:00 pm.
Free admission
Didier Lefèvre. Le Photographe
October 23 - December 29, 2006
"Emmanuel Guibert and I were neighbours in Paris when we were growing up. I became a photographer, while Emmanuel Guibert began working on his first comic strip. In 1986, I made my first trip to Afghanistan. It was a tough journey and in many ways a voyage of initiation. Emmanuel found that it had all the ingredients for a graphic novel: a country that is important in contemporary history, exceptional characters (the Afghans themselves, the "French Doctors" with a woman in charge, etc). Emmanuel wrote a script based on my story. Then the plates were sent to Frédéric Lemercier (another childhood friend of Emmanuel's), who made photos and drawings, and then coloured the drawings. Many of the members of this 1986 expedition have remained my friends, and thanks to the graphic novel, they have also become friends with Emmanuel and Frédéric."
Didier Lefèvre
Curator : Jean-Pierre Haie.
Comic books/graphic novels published by Dupuis.
Atelier demi-teinte
www.demi-teinte.fr
8 rue Mayran, 9th arrondissement.
Metro : Cadet
Telephone : 01 48 78 97 02
Open daily except Sundays from 9:00 am to 12:30 pm and from 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm.
Free admission
Xavier Roy. Book of the Living
9 November - 30 November, 2006
Taking inspiration from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead about mummification and rituals of the afterlife, Xavier Roy proposes a Book of the Living describing daily life in modern-day Egypt. In collaboration with art director Maurice Coriat, a selection of photographs has been made in view of producing such a book. This exhibition is a "work in progress" showing different proposals for layouts based on the same set of photographs. The exhibition shows the interplay between the work of a photographer, Xavier Roy; that of an art director, Maurice Coriat; and that of a writer, Annelise Roux.
Curator : Francine Grünwald.
Galerie Forêt Verte
3 Cité Dupetit-Thouars, 3th arrondissement.
Metro : Temple or République
Telephone : 01 42 77 94 14
Open daily except Sundays and Mondays from 2:30 pm to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
Tendance Floue. Are We?
8 november - 25 november, 2006
The photographers who make up the group Tendance Floue are Pascal Aimar, Thierry Ardouin, Denis Bourges, Gilles Coulon, Olivier Culmann, Mat Jacob, Caty Jan, Philippe Lopparelli, Meyer, Bertrand Meunier, Patrick Tourneboeuf, and Flore Aël Surun.
Their book, Sommes-Nous? (Are We?), can be regarded as a long "sentence" made up of images, conjuring up a complex and troubling world in which man is the main player. The photographs portray places marked by history: a mysterious, unreal moonscape, spaces devoid of life, faces revealing a variety of feelings. Multiple worlds confront one another, contrasts emerge, and the question "Who are we?" remains hanging in the air.
Curators : Mat Jacob et Philippe Lopparelli.
Catalogue published by Naïve.
Les Frigos
www.tendancefloue.net
19 rue des Frigos, 13th arrondissement.
Metro : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand
Telephone : 01 48 58 90 60
Open daily except Mondays from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
Anne-Lise Broyer & Nicolas Comment. Fading
7 November - 14 December, 2006
This project began with the idea of recreating emotional situations in Prague described by the writer Roger Vailland in a book published by Aventinum, a Czech publisher, in 1927. Anne-Lise Broyer and Nicolas Comment describe Vailland's journey through the capital and its outskirts, indicating on a map all the places mentioned in his story and that of his friend, the Czech painter Joseph Sima. Slowly, a kind of "topography" emerges, punctuated by photographs gleaned by the couple.
The project was put together in 2005 during an artist-in-residence programme .
Curator : Madé.
Catalogue published by Filigranes.
French Institute in Prague, under the auspices of the AFAA (French public arts sponsorship body).
Galerie Madé
www.eyemade.com
6 rue Regrattier, 4th arrondissement.
Metro : Pont-Marie
Telephone : 01 53 10 14 34
Open daily except Sundays from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm, and by appointment.
Free admission
Ryan McGinley
28 October - 2 December, 2006
These photographs were taken in the summer of 2005. For two months, Ryan McGinley traveled across the United States in a van with a group of friends he photographed daily. McGinley has always talked about wanting to photograph the United States as a tribute to American photographers like Robert Frank and Richard Avedon, and in the tradition of American road trips and road movies. This exhibition celebrates freedom and escaping the constraints of reality, with beautiful American landscape as a backdrop.
Curator : agnès b.
Catalogue published by Galerie du Jour.
Galerie du Jour - agnès b.
http://www.galeriedujour.com
44 rue Quincampoix, 4th arrondissement.
Metro : Rambuteau.
Telephone : 01 44 54 55 90
Open daily except Sundays and Mondays from midday to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
Édouard Levé : America
2 November - 2 December, 2006
"America" is about a 10,000-kilometre car journey Édouard Levé made to seventeen American cities that have the same names as foreign cities. This strange journey reflects a desire to discover an America that is different from its fictionalized representations in the cinema and on television. The photos depict, in a methodical, almost topographical way, America's cities and their inhabitants, but they never invade their privacy. They confine themselves to the kind of public spaces that are accessible to any idle visitor.
Curator : Matthieu Charon.
Catalogue published by Léo Scheer.
Galerie Léo Scheer
www.leoscheer.com
14/16 rue de Verneuil, 7th arrondissement.
Metro : Rue du Bac
Telephone : 01 44 55 01 93
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
Nina Korhonen. My American Grandma, 1993-1999, with the Photo Book of the Year Award
8 November - 14 January, 2007
Finnish artist Nina Korhonen has lived and worked in Sweden for 25 years. Her book describes the unique life of her grandmother, who emigrated to the United States: an ordinary-looking woman who poses without false modesty and shows a generous appetite for life, even at the age of 80. As well as Nina Korhonen's work, visitors will also have the opportunity to see all 55 of the books nominated for the Photo Book of the Year Award since 1996, when the Federation of Swedish photographers created the prize, as well as original prints by eleven of the winners.
Curators : Maria Ridelberg-Lemoine, Tommy Arvidson
Catalogue publish by Förlag.
Centre Culturel Suédois
www.ccs.si.se
11 rue Payenne, 3th arrondissement.
Metro : Saint-Paul
Telephone : 01 44 78 80 20
Open daily except Mondays from midday to 6:00 pm. Tuesdays until 9:00 pm.
Free admission
"File Indienne". An installation by Didier Goupy
11 November - 24 December, 2006
This exhibition consists of an oversized book 60 centimetres high and 20 meters long, resembling a gigantic accordion.
Curators : Frédérique Founès (Agence Éditing), Dominique Gaesller, Trans Photographic Press.
Catalogue publish by Trans Photogtraphic Press.
La Tour Jean sans Peur
20 rue Etienne Marcel, 2th arrondissement.
Metro : Étienne Marcel
Open daily except Mondays and Tuesdays from 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm.
Admission: 3 €
Jean-Baptiste Huynh. Le Regard à l'œuvre
24 October, 2006 - 14 January, 2007
The exhibition brings together portraits, still lives and landscapes made by Jean-Baptiste Huynh during his travels in Mali, India, Ethiopia, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Egypt and France. It deals with three fundamental aspects of Jean-Baptiste Huynh's work: faces, travel and books. He has created eight books of portraits, and rightly considers the book to be a complete expression of his vision.
Also on show will be a "virtual" book of pictures (shown as a screen projection), as well as models, Polaroids, portfolios and limited editions of the artist's work.
Curator : Henry-Claude Cousseau, directeur de l'Ensba.
Catalogue published by the Ensba.
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
www.ensba.fr
14 rue Bonaparte, 6th arrondissement.
Metro : Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Telephone : 01 47 03 50 73
Open daily except Mondays from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Admission: 4 €
Emmanuel Berry. Birds from Sens - A Hidden Collection
29 October - 8 January, 2007
This exhibition consists of pictures of antique stuffed birds from the collection of the museum in the town of Sens, which is now closed to the public. The artist has made photographic "portraits" of the birds, then enlarged them into painting-sized prints. They take on a new meaning, the birds appearing disturbingly alive.
Curator : Michel Van-Praët.
Catalogue published by Le temps qu'il fait.
Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Grande galerie de l'Évolution
www.mnhn.fr
36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 5tharrondissement.
Metro : Jussieu
Telephone : 01 40 79 31 11
Open daily except Tuesdays from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Admission: 8 € - Reduced rate: 6 €
Jean-Christophe Béchet.
Views n°0, A Photographic Manifesto
2 November - 23 December, 2006
Jean-Christophe Béchet shot his first reel of black-and-white film in 1980. From 1980 to January 2006, he shot 2,000 reels. A quarter of a century is revealed in the resulting 2,000 contact prints: a kind of private diary. Over the same period, photography has moved quickly and inevitably towards digital. Jean-Christophe Béchet's response has been to focus on the photos from the beginning of each film reel -- those half-veiled images that have a disturbing and poetic force all of their own.
Curator : Dominique Gaessler
Catalogue published by Trans Photographic Press
La Chambre Claire
14 rue Saint Sulpice, 6th arrondissement.
Metro : Odéon
Telephone : 01 46 34 04 31
Open daily except Sundays and Mondays from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
Nicolas Taffin and Michel Melot. The Book
8 November 2006 - 22 January, 2007
This exhibition explores the miracle of the book: an object born two thousand years ago, eminently modern thanks to its mathematical, cubic form, industrial before its time. It supplanted scrolls and became the "building block" of Western thought. Unlike the digital medium, the book has physical folds: it opens and closes. In books, the medium and the message are interlinked. A book's layout can be designed to give it authority, or even the potential to transcend. To understand the phenomenal power of the book, Michel Melot and Nicolas Taffin, a writer and a photographer, explore the way books are put together and examine their most private anatomy: their folds and seams, their physical and symbolic fibre.
Curators : Blandine Benoît et Michel Melot.
Catalogue published by L'œil neuf.
Galerie de la BPI, Centre Pompidou
www.centrepompidou.fr
19 rue Beaubourg, 4th arrondissement.
Metro : Rambuteau or Hôtel de Ville
Telephone : 01 44 78 12 33
Open daily except Tuesdays from midday to 10:00 pm.
Free admission
Masao Yamamoto. Nakazora, entre la terre et le ciel
10 November - 23 December, 2006
Japanese photography has a tradition of strong links with publishing and, during the 1960s and 1970s in particular, some remarkable photography books have appeared in Japan. Masao Yamamoto, born in 1957, is an outstanding example: the six books he has published (five at Nazraeli Press) are as important to his work as his prints and exhibitions. The singularity of Yamamoto's published work comes from his approach to space and time.
Curator : Didier Brousse.
Galerie Camera Obscura
268 boulevard Raspail, 14tharrondissement.
Metro : Raspail
Telephone 01 45 45 67 08
Open daily except Sundays and Mondays from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
Desiree Dolron. Exaltation, Gaze, Xteriors
9 November - 20 December, 2006
Born in 1963, Desiree Dolron is one of the best-known Dutch artists working with photography, and has developed a unique style in both documentary and artistic work. Her series "Exaltation: Images of Religion and Death" (1991-1999) deals with excess in religious ceremonies, from exaltation to self-mutilation. "Gaze" (1996-1998) involves images of people underwater, peaceful portraits that seem to be of another, almost mythological world, blurring the boundaries between life and death. "XTERIORS" (2001-2006) presents portraits and situations inspired by the traditions of painting. There is something mysteriously, even disturbingly distant about Desiree Dolron's photographs.
Curator : Marieke Wiegel.
Catalogue published by Xavier Barral.
Institut néerlandais
www.institutneerlandais.com
121 rue de Lille, 7th arrondissement.
Metro : Assemblée Nationale
Telephone : 01 53 59 12 40
Open daily except Monday from 1:00 pm to 7:00 pm.
Admission: 4 € - Reduced rate: 2 €
Jorma Puranen. Glacial Expanses
9 November - 14 December, 2006
"Glacial Expanses," Jorma Puranen's most recent photographic series, was inspired by tales he read of expeditions in Northern Europe during the 19th century and paintings of the same expeditions he found in museums in Versailles and Dieppe. He was also inspired by tourists he saw walking in the rugged hills of Nordkap, in Norway.
Curators : Marjatta Levanto et Merja Laukia.
Catalogue published by Galerie Anhava, Helsinski
Institut finlandais
www.institut-finlandais.asso.fr
60 rue des Écoles, 5th arrondissement.
Metro : Cluny La Sorbonne
Telephone : 01 40 51 89 09
Open daily except Sundays and Mondays from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm and Tuesdays until 8:00 pm.
Free admission
Jakob Gautel. Maria Theodora
16 November 2006 - 14 février, 2007
It all began with family heirlooms passed down from generation to generation, including a personal diary with a photograph slipped between its pages. This yellowed photograph from the early 1860s shows a young woman: Maria Theodora, Jakob Gautel's great-great-grandmother. She has Asian features, but her dress and the setting are clearly Western. In 1834 her German father had become a doctor working for the Dutch Colonial government in Indonesia. Her mother was Indonesian, though her family was originally from China. Jacob Gautel went to Indonesia in search of memories of Maria Theodora. He returned from his travels with notes, pictures, a video and a series of photographs: all of them call out to Maria Theodora, and her presence can be felt everywhere.
Curator : Noëlle Chabert, Director of the Musée Zadkine.
Catalogue published by Au Figuré, FRAC Haute-Normandie.
Musée Zadkine
www.zadkine.paris.fr
100 bis rue d'Assas, 6th arrondissement.
Metro : Notre-Dame-des-Champs or Vavin
Telephone : 01 55 42 77 20
Open daily except Mondays and holidays from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm.
Admission: 4 € - Reduced rate: 2 €
Catherine Poncin. De l'image par l'image
4 November - 22 December, 2006
This exhibition consists of two series of photographs by Catherine Poncin: "Palimpseste, 2002" (commissioned by the Auberge de l'Europe) and "Du champ des hommes, territories, 2001" (comissioned by the town of Bobigny), in which the artist reworks images from various sources including archives and the press. In conjunction with the exhibition, Filigranes publishers will present books produced with artists from the gallery.
At the same time, a video screen presents interviews in which each artist discusses issues relating to his or her work and how important publication is to them.
Curator : Christine Ollier.
Catalogues published by Filigranes.
Galerie les filles du calvaire
www.fillesducalvaire.com
17 rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, 3th arrondissement.
Metro : République ou Oberkampf
Telephone : 01 42 74 47 05
Open daily except Sundays and Mondays from 11:00 am to 6:30 pm.
Free admission
Zbigniew Libera. Nouvelles impressions d'Afrique
Zbigniew Libera. Ce qui fait l'estafette
3 November - 25 November, 2006
9 November - 22 December, 2006
The Polish Institute and the Anne de Villepoix gallery present two original works by artist Zbigniew Libera (born in 1959), an important figure in Polish contemporary art. One of Libera's major preoccupations is the treatment of texts and images: he deconstructs the mechanisms of the symbolic power of pictures. His work is a rereading of codes and images that have been heavily represented in the media and which are becoming our new historical icons.
Curator : Klaudia Podsiadlo
Galerie Anne de Villepoix
www.annedevillepoix.com
43 rue de Montmorency, 3th.
Metro : Rambuteau
Telephone : 01 42 78 32 24
Open daily except Sundays and Mondays from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Free admission
Institut polonais
www.institut-pologne-org.net
31 rue Jean Goujon, 8th arrondissement.
Metro : Alma Marceau
Telephone : 01 53 93 90 10
Open daily except Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Wednesdays until 7:30 pm.
Free admission
Jens Ullrich. Mnamni, Collages of Africa
18 October - 2 December, 2006
Jens Ullrich was born in Tanzania. Here he has taken present-day black and white newspaper photographs of daily life in Africa and glued old masks cut out of African art catalogues onto the people's faces. The photos have only been very slightly altered, and thus retain their persuasive power as authentic documentary records. Something quite surprising takes place in these pictures: African masks, kept for many years in western museums, have been "returned" to their country of origin and are here seen being "worn" by the descendants of those who made them.
Curator : Sabine Belz.
Goethe Institut, Galerie Condé
www.goethe.de/paris
31 rue de Condé, 6th arrondissement.
Metro : Odéon
Telephone : 01 40 46 69 60
Open daily except Sundays from 12:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
Free admission.
Donigan Cumming. Dozing, Sleep, Nightmare
10 November 2006 - 3 Febrary, 2007
Donigan Cumming's photographs inspire admiration as well as debate and controversy. For the past twenty years, he has been photographing and filming a community of people on the margins of society, depicting the pain and ugliness of their lives but also their moving, ridiculous and sometimes tragic fantasies. Here he presents two huge pictures (2,5 x 5 m) freely inspired by the paintings of Bruegel the Elder and James Ensor. Entitled Prologue and Epilogue, these photographic tableaux relate to the entire body of his work, and make up a kind of iconoclastic retrospective.
Curator : Catherine Bédard.
Catalogue published by the Centre culturel canadien.
Centre culturel canadien
www.canada-culture.org
5 rue de Constantine, 7th arrondissement.
Metro : Invalides
Telephone : 01 44 43 21 90
Open daily except holidays from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Thursdays until 9:00 pm. Saturdays from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Free admission