Institut du Monde Arabe
from 10 November 1998 to 10 January 1999

Le Liban intime, photographies 1850-1960 ('Lebanon from Within, Photographs 1850-1960')

Local professional or amateur photographers provide an insider's view of how Lebanese society has evolved. These photographs, brought together by the Fondation arabe pour l'Image, reveal moments and memories of a past that seems both close and distant. The exhibition includes around 100 images shown in their original format.

Exhibition curated by Mona Khazindar, Fouad Elkoury & Samer Mohadad

Catalogue published by the Fondation arabe pour l'Image and the Institut du Monde Arabe.

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

Edouard Boubat : "Lella"

Who better than Boubat to share moments of joy with us? Lella is the photographic story of a first meeting.
'When people ask me what my secret is, I should reply : I cherish beginnings, blue-skied mornings in a foreign town; a new hunger'. "En avant: Route." Rimbaud.

In poetry there are no beginnings or endings. Photography shares this privilege. Simply seizing the moment.
Edouard Boubat

Catalogue published by Paris Audiovisuel/ Maison Européenne de la Photographie

Maison Européenne de la Photographie
from 18 November 1998 to 31 January 1999

Bernard Plossu : "Françoise"

...these photographs of Françoise... they speak of the feeling of love, of tenderness, of life together with our children. Except for two taken with an instamatic, with Françoise running after the children on a beach in Andalusia, the place of her roots, all the photographs were taken with a 50mm lens on my old Nikkormat, because this lens gets closest to "normal" vision (!) : no effects, just reality as it presents itself, with its direct poetry, day or night; with the rain or the sun, travelling, sleeping, looking at each other, photographing each other.

A book (also entitled "Françoise") is published by Mestizo, Murcia, Spain.

Bernard Plossu will be showing his photographs at the Espace Photographique Contretype in Brussels from 24 December 1998 to 4 January 1999.

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

Yves Guillot : "La Logeuse et le Vert Luisant"

"For 10 years, I worked on a series of photos whose generic title, 'La Logeuse' ('The Landlady'), also to be used for a book, was intended to reflect the vague, open-ended nature of the project: simple objects of interiority, the way they interact and the idea of the circle they appear to trace... ...'Le Vert Luisant' ('Glowing Green'), saw the return of human presences in a new series that acts as a counterpoint to 'La Logeuse'".

The photos themselves are 'vintage photographs', the property of the M.E.P. and of a private collector.

Companion volume published by Marval
Exhibition sponsored by Leica & Agfa.

Galerie la Ferronnerie
from 19 November 1998 to 9 January 1999

Arno Rafael Minkkinen : "Ten Minutes Past Midnight"

In 'Ten Minutes past Midnight', Arno Rafael Minkkinen gives us a truly intimate glimpse of his life, via the very first portraits and nude photographs of his wife Sandra in the 1970s. The second part of the exhibition consists of self-portraits depicting Daniel, his son, during childhood and adolescence.

Exhibition curated by Nathalie Casabo Emprin.
Catalogue published by Musta Taide and the Gallen-Kallelan Museo. Exhibition and catalogue produced with the support of the Finnish Embassy in Paris.

Fnac Montparnasse
from 3 November 1998 to 13 January 1999

Sergio Larrain : "Londres" ('London')

"A good picture is born of a state of grace. This happens when one is freed from conventions, free as a child discovering reality for the first time. The name of the game is then to organize the rectangle."
Sergio Larrain

The exhibition presents a view of life in London in the sixties.

Sergio Larrain's work is distributed by Magnum Photos
Exhibition curated by Laura Serani & Agnès Sire

A book entitled "Londres 58-59" is published by Hazan et Dewi Lewis (1998)