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"Avant première"

Maison Européenne de la Photographie
from 16 September to 8 November 1998

Martine Franck : "D'un jour, l'autre"

Co-founder of the Agence Viva in 1972 and associate member of Magnum Photos, Martine Franck has never before had a major personal exhibition in France. D'un jour, l'autre brings together outstanding images reflecting the rigour and discretion typical of her work.

The camera is itself a frontier, a barrier that we constantly break down to get closer to the subject. By doing this we go over the limit, there's a feeling of daring, of going too far, of rudeness, a wish to be invisible. We can only go over to the other side if we forget ourselves momentarily by being receptive to others; as a photographer, I'm in two different worlds at once. That's all I can really say about what I feel when I take photographs, the rest is subconscious. Transgression - that's the word I've been looking for.

Martine Franck, from the preface to the book.

Exhibition curated by Jean-Luc Monterosso, with Andréa Holzherr

The companion volume to D'un jour, l'autre is published jointly by Le Seuil and Paris Audiovisuel/Maison Européenne de la Photographie.

Opening Shows

Musée d'Orsay
from 27 October 1998 to 20 January 1999

Victor Hugo : Victor Hugo, photographies de l'exil ('Photographs of exile')

En collaboration avec le soleil ('Working with the sun')
Soon after he arrived in Jersey, the exiled Victor Hugo encouraged his sons to open a daguerreotype workshop. The aim was to illustrate political pamphlets (Napoléon le Petit and Châtiments). These texts, along with drawings by Hugo and photographs which bear the mark of his genius, form the basis of this exhibition.

Exhibition curated by Françoise Heilbrun

A companion volume on the two historical exhibitions is published jointly by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux and Paris-Musées.

Maison de Victor Hugo
from 27 October 1998 to 26 January 1999

Victor Hugo : Edmond Bacot in 1862 - Olivier Mériel in 1998

Dans l'intimité de Victor Hugo à Hauteville House ('At home with Hugo at Hauteville House')
Victor Hugo used his prodigious imagination to design an amazingly varied interior for the house he bought overlooking the sea in Guernesey.

The Maison de Victor Hugo has chosen to show the work of two photographers who, more than a century apart, produced photographs of this intimate and unusual place.

Exhibition curated by Danielle Molinari With the support of A.K.G. Photothèque.

A catalogue on the work of Olivier Meriel is published jointly by Paris-Musées and Paris Audiovisuel/Maison Européenne de la Photographie.

Cartes Blanches
To celebrate the 10th edition of the Mois de la Photo in Paris, two major festivals, Visa pour l'Image and la Primavera fotogrAfica, have been invited to present an exhibition of their choice.

Espace Photographique de Paris, Nouveau Forum des Halles
Until 6 December 1998

Visa pour l'Image (Perpignan) presents Andrew Lichtenstein/Sygma and Christopher Morris/Black Star - Studio B - New works

Exhibition curated by Jean-François Leroy

Centre d'études catalanes
from 3 to 30 November 1998

La Primavera fotografica (Barcelona) presents Antoni Clavé, Photogrammes

Exhibition curated by Josep Miquel Garcia
Catalogue published by Actar

Anniversary

Mairie du 13ème (town hall, 13th arrondissement, Paris)
from 3 to 30 November 1998

20 years at the Galerie Viviane Esders

Tributes

Centre historique des archives nationales
from 16 November 1998 to 4 January 1999

Pierre Boulat (1924-1998) : "Moments donnés" ('Given Moments')

Pierre Boulat belongs to a generation of photographers who did not seek glory or awards. He just did his job as a photographer and journalist, with modesty and rigour, often with tenderness and humour, always with passion. The work presented at the Centre historique des Archives nationales is a tribute to all those who, famous or not, gave him a little of themselves and enabled him to do his job.

Exhibition presented on the initiative of 'Visa Pour l'Image' and sponsored by Laboratoire Central Color.

Musée National des Arts et Traditions
from 6 November 1998 to 17 February 1999

François Tuefferd (1912-1996) : "Le cirque" ('The Circus'), photographs 1933-1954

The acuity and tenderness of François Tuefferd's portraits throw a particular light on his vision of the circus. The face of the man behind the clown's mask tells us how, in the circus ring or the theatre, the comic ends when the performance does. By picturing the show within an emblematic circle, he constructed an icon for the circus.

Exhibition curated by Jacqueline Christophe
Catalogue published by la Réunion des Musées nationaux.

Guests of Honour

Johan van der Keuken :'Body and City'

This project grew from my pondering the interaction between photography and film and where two can viably coincide. I have been active for a good two decades in the border area between them, and have tried out any number of ways to link two or more photographs outside the ordinary chronological sequence. There are associations and contrasts pertaining to content, story, framework, composition, texture, colour, tone, movement and light. After these series of photographs came the 'keyhole images' and the layered multiple exposures (Jaipur/India and Amsterdam/Two streets). What I wanted to do was confront these multiple photographs with moving pictures on film and video and find a different site for film: at some spot where people are walking around anyway, no longer confined to a seat in a movie theater, free to discover the images. A plan for seven exhibitions/installations on seven subjects emerged.

Maison Européenne de la Photographie
from 4 November 1998 to 14 February 1999

Johan van der Keuken : "Derniers Mots - Ma soeur Joke" (1935-1997) ('Last Words - My Sister Joke')
Video installation

On 8th August 1997, Johan van der Keuken's sister Joke died of cancer. During the week leading up to her death, he filmed two conversations with her on a digital camera.

Johan van der Keuken : 'Sarajevo / November 1993 - November 1996'
Photographic installation

The installation brings together photographs and a continuous projection of images filmed in Sarajevo.

Johan van der Keuken : 'Amsterdam / Two Streets'
Photographs from the MEP collection

This exhibition follows two very different photographic paths which meet like two streets, with pictures of Damstraat and of Haarlemmerdijk.

Don't miss the exhibitions, films and installations by J. van der Keuken presented as part of the festival entitled Le Traversée du Paysage at the Studio national des arts contemporains in Tourcoing.

Aventures d'un regard by Johan van der Keuken is a book about his work produced in collaboration with François Alberta. Published by Editions Cahiers du Cinéma in the Albums collection. 450 black & white and colour illustrations, 240 pp, 295F. organized by the Maison Européenne de la Photographie as part of the Salon Paris Photo at the Carrousel du Louvre, 20 - 23 November 1998.

A book is also available, published by Paris Audiovisuel / Maison Européenne de la Photographie.

Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
Until 22 November 1998

Johan van der Keuken cinéaste : Une rétrospective (film retrospective)

After years of filmmaking, the idea of the single image has gradually faded in my mind. In fact, reality seems to be just as much hidden as revealed by such an image. A second of film often contains several meaningful photogrammes. This is why the choice of a single, 'true' photo, chosen by me, becomes a problem. Johan van der Keuken

Programme organized by Danièle Hihon

Maison de l'Amérique Latine
from 5 November to 22 December 1998

Johan van der Keuken : "Bolivie / Un jour à la Paz / Le poids des montagnes" ('Bolivia / A Day in La Paz / The Weight of Mountains')
Photo/Video installation

A series of large-format prints, where naked bodies are hardly distinguishable from the whiteness of the paper. The images gradually become darker and the outlines more distinct.

The second theme is a silent film of people making love, but the image is blurred: we know what we're looking at, but in reality we can't see anything.

Institut Néerlandais
from 5 November to 6 December 1998

Johan van der Keuken : Retrospective 1953 to the present day
Exposition photographique

Exhibition of photographs

Johan van der Keuken : "New York / colours on 42nd Street"
Photographic installation

On 42nd Street, I saw a long row of brightly-painted shutters on stores that were closed. I took photos of passers-by. In the exhibition, the photos are placed side by side, forming a mosaic several metres tall. A flat surface with the feeling of this New World: America!

Johan van der Keuken : "Indes / montage et démontage" ('India / montage and dismantling')
Photo/video installation

The 'dismantling' part is a sequence from the film L'oeil au-dessus du puits, which has been cut up into separate images. This 'dismantling' of the film sequence is presented alongside a montage of photographic images that has the same structure. Then there's the series on the entrance to Mysore Hospital. Pictures that speak of 'gently touching'. The entrance to the exhibition space is guarded by two man-sized images of the Dog God - River God, a figure that is both frightening and shy.

Exhibition curated by Johan van der Keuken & Jeroen de Vries

Maison Européenne de la Photographie
from 30 November 1998 to 14 February 1999

Jim Dine : Recent photographs

Jim Dine has been asked to design the poster for the Mois de la Photo 1998. He works in a variety of media: painting, sculpture, engraving and drawing. The most recent development in the relationship between photography and Jim Dine's art has come about because of his increasing interest in different types of printing technology: the century-old process of photoengraving which is presently enjoying a comeback, and numeric printing, a recent invention made possible by the latest computer technology.

Jim Dine has used these two techniques to produce a single oeuvre, which reaffirms the imagery of the last thirty years of his career in a way that is always new and unexpected.

An exhibition of his work has been organized by the Maison Européenne de la Photographie as part of the Salon Paris Photo at the Carrousel du Louvre, 20 - 23 November 1998.

A book is also available, published by Paris Audiovisuel / Maison Européenne de la Photographie.

Following Exhibition