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 Paris' "Mois de la Photo," first established in 1980, has helped make Paris one of the world's capitals of photography. Each edition of the Month of Photography (held every two years in November) is devoted to a particular theme and features dozens of exhibitions as well as screenings, events and public discussions. This year the festival theme is "Paris collectionne" (‘Paris collects’) and shows off photos from several of the rich collections of photographs held in Paris such as the vast collection at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, which boasts over 20,000 contemporary images. Following is a selection from approximately sixty exhibitions taking place in Paris. For a complete list: http://www.mep-fr.org/
Month of Photography Selections
Photos Femmes Féminisme (1860-2010)
[Women and Feminism.]
18 November 2010 - 13 March 2011
Germaine Krull, Laure Albin-Guillot, Berenice Abbott, Gisèle Freund, Yvonne Chevalier, Edith Gérin, Sabine Weiss, Margaret Bourke-White, Janine Niepce and Irina Ionesco. The Marguerite Durand Library Collection.
Galerie des Bibliothèques, 22 rue Malher, 4e. Tel.: +33 (0)1 44 59 29 40 Metro: Saint Paul
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 1.00 pm to 7.00pm.
Late opening Thursday until 9.00 pm
Admission: 4 € / 2 €
La France de Raymond Depardon
30 September 2010 - 09 January 2011
Stunning large color photos with exquisite sharpness and detail taken with a large format camera in the tradition of Walker Evans and Paul Strand. Depardon is famous for his reportage work in deprived inner city areas, for his many books where images are interwoven with text, and for his films about everyday life in a changing society.
Bibliothèque nationale de France - Site François Mitterrand
Quai François-Mauriac, 13e.
Tel.: +33 (0)1 53 79 53 79
Metro: Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand or Quai de la Gare
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00 am – 7.00 pm
Sunday 1.00 pm – 7 pm
Admission : 7€ / 5€
Fragments latino-américains [Latin American Fragments]
19 November 2010 - 28 January 2011
This exhibition features a wide selection of photographs from the collections of the MEP, reflecting the work of sixteen photographers and video makers from nine Latin American countries. 16 artists, 9 countries, 40 years of images,
Maison de l’Amérique latine, 217 bd Saint-Germain, 7e. Tel.: +33 (0)1 49 54 75 00 Metro Stations : Rue du Bac or Solférino
Open Monday to Friday from 11.00 am
to 8.00 pm.
Saturday 2.00 to 6.00 pm
Free entrance
Anonymes For its inaugural exhibition, the BAL brings together eight of the most influential photographers and filmmakers of the past fifty years 18 September 2010 - 19 December 2010
Le Bal, 6 impasse de la défense, 18e. Tel.: +33 (0)1 44 70 75 50 Metro: Place de Clichy.
Open Wednesday to Friday de 12.00 am to 8.00 pm.
Thursday 12.00 am to 10.30 pm.
Saturday and Sunday 10.00 am to 8.00 pm.
Admission : 4 € / 3 €
Harry Callahan, Variations
To 19 December 2010
This selection of about one hundred prints from the collection of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, complemented by others from the Peter McGill Gallery, the MoMA and the Thomas Zander Gallery, provides an opportunity to discover Callahan’s favourite subjects – the city, his family and Nature: three threads closely linked to his private life, which were to remain entwined until the end.
Fondation Henri-Cartier-Bresson, 2 impasse Lebouis, 14e. Tel.: +33 (0)1 56 80 27 00. Metro: Gaîté
Open Monday to Friday 1.00 pm – 6.30 pm, and Wendesday until 8.30 pm.
Saturday 11 am – 6.45 pm.
Admission: 6 euros /3 euros
Larry Clark, Kiss the past hello
To 02 January 2011
A major retrospective of the photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark, born in 1943 in Tulsa USA. The exhibition which contains several sexually explicit photos is restricted to visitors over 18 years old. Features his legendary Tulsa (1971) and "Teenage Lust" (1983) photos as well as newer work such as pictures of Los Angeles Latino skateboarders, "The Perfect Childhood" (1993) and "Punk Picasso " (2003) The exhibition includes a recently discovered 16mm film on the lives of addicts in Tulsa by Clark shot in 1968 and film footage featuring young Venezuelan skater Jonathan Velasquez, who was the main character of the film "Wassup Rockers"
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 11 avenue du président Wilson, 16e. Tel.: +33 (0)1 53 67 40 00 Metro: Alma-Marceau or Iéna
Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 am to 6.pm.
Late Opening on Thursday until 9.00 pm
Entrance fee : 5 € / 2,5 €
Steidl : quand la photographie devient livre, de Robert Frank à Karl Lagerfeld
[When Photography and Books Become One From Robert Frank to Karl Lagerfeld]
09 November 2010 - 24 December 2010
Steidl founded the publishing house that bears his name in 1972, and has played a part in promoting the work of many important photographers with a whole series of remarkable books. Includes work by approximately twentyphotographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, David Bailey, John Baldessari and Raymond Depardon – all of whom have worked with Steidl.
Monnaie de Paris 11 quai de Conti, 6e. Tel.: +33 (0)1 40 46 56 66 Metro: Odéon or Pont neuf.
Open Tuesday to Sunday
from 11.00 am to 5.30 pm.
Entrance : 6€ /4€
Mario Giacomelli La matière de l’homme [The Substance of Man]
18 November 2010 - 05 January 2011
An undisputed master of contemporary photography, Mario Giacomelli stands out in the expressive and artistic scene of the twentieth century. From his beloved Senigallia, on the coast of Le Marche, where he spent all his life, Giacomelli was able to create unique and unforgettable images using a visual approach that is at once straightforward and visionary, combined with formidable manual dexterity.
Institut culturel italien de Paris 73 rue de Grenelle, 7e. Tel.: +33 (0)1 44 39 49 39 Metro : Rue du Bac or Sèvres-Babylone
Open Monday to Friday 10.00 am to 1.00 pm and 3.00 pm to 6.00 pm
Free entrance
André Kertész
To 06 February 2011
The show takes a chronological and linear approach, reflecting the key periods in Kertész’s creative life, punctuated by self-portraits that mark the entrance to each different exhibition area. In parallel, themed ‘cells’ spotlight particular characteristics of his career: personal work (the photographic postcard Distorsions), his involvement in publishing (the book entitled Paris vu par Kertész, 1934), recurrent creative experiments (shadows, chimneys) or the expression of feelings (solitude). Hitherto ignored or unexplored periods are also highlighted (his time in the army in 1914–1918; the New York period; his late Polaroids).
Jeu de Paume 1 place de la Concorde, 8e. Tel.: +33 (0)1 47 03 12 50 Metro: Concorde
Open Wednesday to Friday, 12.00 am to 7.00 pm, Saturday and Sunday 10.00 am to 7.00 pm. Late opening Tuesday until 9.00 pm.
Admission: 7 € / 5 €
Portraits d’écrivains de 1850 à nos jours
[Portraits of Writers from 1850 to the present day]
05 November 2010 - 20 February 2011
This exhibition of portraits features works taken from three Parisian collections. Photographs from the Maison de Victor Hugo collection evoke the early years of photography and the history of portraiture between 1850 and 1885, while photojournalism and studio portraits from the first half of the twentieth century are represented by a selection from the Roger- Viollet collections. Lastly the show focuses on great photographers of the second half of the twentieth century, with works borrowed from the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie.
The 200 photographs selected illustrate how original these collections are and how they complement each other not only chronologically but also aesthetically and thematically, bringing together the notions of ‘portrait’ and ‘masterpiece’ thanks to often unexpected comparisons and parallels.
The photographic collection at the Maison de Victor Hugo mainly features portraits of Victor Hugo, his family, his homes and his entourage, including friends The fifty or so portraits presented here emphasise the unique relationship the banned writer had with photography from the beginning. Some reveal links with photographers of the time such as Julia Margaret Cameron, while contemporary photographs taken by Olivier Mériel at Hauteville House, Guernsey, where the poet lived in exile, echo his absence.
The Roger-Viollet collections include a very large number of portraits, in particular portraits of twentieth century French writers, a favourite subject since the agency’s inception in 1938. These sets of pictures reflect both the activities of Roger-Viollet as a press agency, and the impeccable taste of its founders, Hélène Roger and Jean Fischer, who collected works by Albert Harlingue, Maurice-Louis Branger, Bernard and Boris Lipnitzki, Henri Martinie, Henri Manuel, Laure Albin-Guillot and Pierre Choumoff. About a hundred prints are on show; some were taken as reportage work at literary prize- givings or during visits to authors or publishing houses, while others are half- or full-length studio portraits. Certain portraits are presented as diptychs or triptychs, and there are also sets of pictures chosen and printed by the authors themselves.
The Maison Européenne de la Photographie collection is representative of the history of world photography from the 1950s to the present. Here, the MEP presents sixty portraits of literary figures, some of whom also feature in the Roger-Viollet collections (e.g. Colette, Marguerite Duras, André Malraux, Marguerite Yourcenar, Antonin Artaud, Philippe Soupault). Most of them have become key works in the history of photography, and were made by some of the greatest portrait photographers of the last century, for example Gisèle Freund, Denise Colomb, Edouard Boubat, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Robert Mapplethorpe, Carlos Freire, Keiichi Tahara and Marc Trivier. These portraits reflect the intense bonds that often linked major twentieth century writers and photographers, as well as the mutual admiration that grew up between them. Portraits of Allen Ginsberg and Hervé Guibert reveal profound and often intimate links between photography and literature.
Maison de Victor Hugo, r6 place des Vosges, 4e.Tel.: +33 (0)1 42 72 10 16Metro St Paul or Bastille
Open Tuesday – Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm.
Admission: 6 €
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