06.08.2018 Daniel Boudinet : le temps de la couleur
Daniel Boudinet : le temps de la couleur. This exhibition of photography will run from 16th June to 10th October 2018 at Jeu de Paume museum in Paris.
06.01.2018 Paris roof tops
Paris roof tops is the name of a series of photographs made by Michael Wolf, presented on memento with his kind permission.
04.27.2018 PROVOKE
“For the members of Provoke, it was now necessary to remove photography from its ideological and factual straitjacket” (Diane Dufour)
04.02.2018 Ed Ruscha
“Ed Ruscha has produced paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, and films that often reference the city’s architecture, urban landscape, and car culture.” (Marla Hamburg Kennedy)
03.19.2018 “The People’s cause”
“One of the images taken by young photographer Bruno Barbey shows exactly the freedom of expression that Sartre, with Simone de Beauvoir by his side, are in the process of defending in a dynamic way” (Nathalie Parienté)
02.12.2018 Le Gray, the Egyptian
There is some mystery surrounding the circumstances that seem to have led Le Gray towards the port of Alexandria…
12.11.2017 Thomas Ruff, The Little Prince of Stars
” Thomas Ruff cancelled out any resemblance to reality and broke with the traditionally more emotional representation of the subject.” (Elodie Morel)
11.24.2017 Constellations of Joan Fontcuberta
Constellations of Joan Fontcuberta, presented by Nathalie Parienté, an art historian and exhibition curator, and notably «Joan Fontcuberta. Ad Litteram».
09.18.2017 The story of a photography
The photography was was blurred and the main subject matter had barely made it into the frame.
06.30.2017 Morvarid K.: “Preserved for a better day”
With « Preserved for a better day », artist Morvarid K. recalls the daily lives of people living in Tehran.
05.12.2017 Marey’s motionless progress
By using a machine instead of biology to sequence time via images, Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) kick-started a change that would herald the future.
12.27.2016 Fairies, faith, beliefs & photographs
The individual is most often – if not always – mystified by what he or she has decided to see.
11.11.2016 Paris Photo 2016
diptyque is Paris Photo’s official partner.
09.09.2016 Henry Fox Talbot
Talbot is the English inventor of photography, just as Niépce and Daguerre were the French inventors of the same.
08.29.2016 Herbarium of Fontcuberta
Through Herbarium, one of his most emblematic work, the artist tackles fiction and irony to create a dynamic of doubt.
08.12.2016 Mapplethorpe Flora: The Complete Flowers
Daffodils, roses, orchids, irises, birds of paradise, tulips, each flower reveals itself to his serious and penetrating lens in the late evening light dappling the studio in which he lives.
08.01.2016 Josef Sudek at Jeu de Paume museum
Sudek’s mastery of the pigment printing process enabled him to produce highly atmospheric and evocative images, thereby reaping all of the reflective and descriptive power of the gelatin silver print.
06.27.2016 Pierre de Fenoÿl
« My meanderings through the world of photography made me veer firmly towards a religious and almost mystical perception of photography » (Pierre de Fenoÿl)
06.03.2016 Contemporary geophotography
Since the Seventies landscapes have blossomed in the field of «fine art » photography.
02.01.2016 Richard Mosse’s vie en rose
Richard Mosse’s work is a real challenge to the system that obliges you to believe what you see. He gives us images of beauty to speak to us of pain and of danger.
01.04.2016 Inside a woman’s bag…
Since the early days of photography, snaps have captured the world like some kind of visual encyclopaedia.
12.17.2015 Tree corpus: Valérie Jouve
Marta Gili, Director of the Jeu de Paume and art critic, shares with us some texts and an interview, from the exhibition “Corps en résistance” catalog on the place of trees in the work of Valérie Jouve.
11.26.2015 The trees of Atget
It’s at Saint-Cloud in 1921 that photographer Eugène Atget undertook a series named “Coins du Parc” (Corners of Park) which is about some trees neglected by the gardeners.
07.13.2015 Winnie Denker & the sentinel of Paris
Photographer Winnie Denker knows the Eiffel Tower better than anyone. Writer Françoise Sagan hated this iron structure until seeing Winnie’s photographs. She then wrote the text to the photographer’s first book The Sentinel of Paris which was dedicated to the Tower.
05.14.2015 Eadweard Muybridge
He may have been the first to photograph the vast and the wild – his photographs of Yosemite Park are legendary.
04.13.2015 Karl Blossfeldt
Elodie Morel, Sales Director for photographs at Christie’s, reflects on Karl Blossfeldt work…
11.13.2014 The writing of light
diptyque is one of the official supporters of this Paris Photo 2014, the annual international meeting for photography.