18 June - 14 September 2008

Presented for the first time in Europe, this exhibition includes over 200 prints showing the famous American photographer's magazine work (for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue) alongside more personal photographs of family and friends. 'I don¹t have two lives', Leibovitz says. 'This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it'. Following both a chronological and a thematic line, the exhibition reconciles the two aspects of her work, highlighting the personal story that subtly underlies her public image.

Exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum, New York, with support from American Express.











18 June - 14 September 2008

Dressage, an exhibition suggested by Agarttha Arte, is part of the project entitled "Piedmont: a Definition", based on commissions from major photographers.
Following on from Alain Fleischer in 2007, William Klein has been given carte blanche to produce an artistic work. Usually a photographer of crowds, demonstrations and sports events, he had never before turned his attention to the world of equestrianism. Here he focuses on the 2007 European dressage championships held at the International Horse Centre at the Venaria Reale in Turin.
William Klein's genius lies in his deliberately distanced and yet perfectly accurate approach to the rather closed milieu of dressage, avoiding any form of didacticism. His images bring to life the special vibrancy, colour and warmth of the world of horses.

Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Huis Marseille Museum, Amsterdam and the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, supported by Neuflize Vie and sponsored by Figaroscope.










18 June - 14 September 2008

From 2001 to 2002, Eric Aupol led a photography workshop with inmates of the Centrale de Clairvaux, a French prison facility. In parallel, he carried out a photography project on the old prison, a ruined Cistercian abbey, whose crumbling walls seem to speak of the painful story of the men and women imprisoned within them.
Echoing the marks on the old stone walls, Eric Aupol has given concrete form to the ravages of memory and existence by photographing the body of an inmate, tattooed and scarred like the stones, the surface of his body bearing the story of a life of revolt and rebellion. Stone and flesh both bear the scars wrought by prison life.











18 June - 14 September 2008

L'envers de soi (The others side of the self) includes some of the most significant work from the photographic career of Sophie Elbaz.
As a photojournalist for Reuter and Sygma from 1986 to 1985, she covered some major events which shaped her vision, as evidenced in Contre toute attente, a photographic essay on the subject of Bosnian refugees. In 1995, she stopped working for the press and discovered Cuba. Her work on theGarcia Lorca, the Havana Opera House, pays tribute to the resilience of an inward-looking world. More recently she produced a trilogy entitled Aleyo, on the theme of the Sacred, the Body, and Politics. Cuba gradually became a workshop for her imagination, providing her with both the material and the opportunity for a "writing of the Self" capable of revealing the 'other side' of things, beyond surface appearances.
Also part of the exhibition is Sophie Elbaz's first film, an account of her search for the Sephardic roots on her father's side of the family.