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06.08.2018 Daniel Boudinet : le temps de la couleur

Daniel Boudinet - Réverbère et éclairage nocturne (Ministère de la Culture / Médiathèque de l’architecture et du patrimoine / Dist. RMN-GP © Donation Daniel Boudinet)
Crossed paths

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

Michael Wolf - Paris roof tops (©Michael Wolf)
Along the way

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

Anonyme, Contestation autour de la construction de l’aéroport de Narita, c. 1969 / Collection Art Institute of Chicago
Crossed paths

“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 - Thirty Parking Lots, 1967 © Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian
Crossed paths

“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”

Le philosophe Jean-Paul Sartre avec Simone de Beauvoir (au fond, le regardant en souriant) distribuant le journal maoïste "La Cause du Peuple", interdit par le gouvernement français, à Paris en 1970. (© Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos)
Crossed paths

“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

Gustave Le Gray (1813-1884) - Tombeaux des Califes et types, 1862, Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie
Along the way

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 - 17H, 36M/-34° - (Christie's images LTD 2017)
Crossed paths

” 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

Joan Fontcuberta - MN 62: OPHIUCUS (NGC 6266), AR 17 h. 01,2 min. / D -30º 07′
Crossed paths

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

Une Delage au Grand Prix de l’Automobile Club de France, circuit de Dieppe, 26 juin 1912 – Jacques Henri Lartigue
Crossed paths

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”

'Preserved for a better day' (11), de Morvarid K. (© Morvarid K.)
Crossed paths

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

Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) - chronophotographie d'un vol de héron
Along the way

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

Frances Griffiths dix ans, photographiée avec ses amies fées par sa cousine Elsie Wright, qui en avait seize, en 1917.
Along the way

The individual is most often – if not always – mystified by what he or she has decided to see.

11.11.2016 Paris Photo 2016

denis-roche-20-avril-1979-rue-henri-barbusse-paris-galerie-le-reverbere-lyon
Crossed paths

diptyque is Paris Photo’s official partner.

09.09.2016 Henry Fox Talbot

William Henry Fox Talbot - Adiantum Capillus-Veneris (Maidenhair Fern), probably early 1839. Photogenic drawing negative 22.5 x 18.3 cm
Courtesy of Hans P. Kraus Jr., New York
Crossed paths

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

lavandula angustifolia, photographie de Joan Fontcuberta  
(© Joan Fontcuberta)
Crossed paths

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

Robert Mapplethorpe, Orchid, 1982, Dye Transfer
© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
Crossed paths

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

Josef, Sudek, Dans le jardin enchanté, 1954–1959
de la série Souvenirs
épreuve gélatino-argentique
17 × 23,3 cm
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa
Don anonyme, 2010
©Succession de Josef Sudek
Crossed paths

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

21.6.85 18h (France, Tarn, 1985), photographie de Pierre de Fenoÿl
Crossed paths

« 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

Jürgen Nefzger, Cofrentes, Espana, 2005. ©Jürgen Nefzger
Crossed paths

Since the Seventies landscapes have blossomed in the field of «fine art » photography.

02.01.2016 Richard Mosse’s vie en rose

Richard Mosse - Platon, 2012 (digital c-print dimensions variable) ©Richard Mosse.  Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Along the way

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…

My Purse (©Sarah Katherine, photographer, antiquing nerd, beauty admirer)
Crossed paths

Since the early days of photography, snaps have captured the world like some kind of visual encyclopaedia.

12.17.2015 Tree corpus: Valérie Jouve

Sans-titre (Valérie Jouve)
Crossed paths

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

"Parc de Saint-Cloud", Eugène Atget (1857-1927)
Crossed paths

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

© Winnie Denker
Along the way

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

Eadweard J. Muybridge - Valley of the Yosemite, from Rocky Ford. No. 4, 1872.
Along the way

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

Adiantum pedatum (Karl Blossfeldt,1928)
Along the way

Elodie Morel, Sales Director for photographs at Christie’s, reflects on Karl Blossfeldt work…

11.13.2014 The writing of light

Per Bak Jensen (Birds, 2014) - Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
Crossed paths

diptyque is one of the official supporters of this Paris Photo 2014, the annual international meeting for photography.

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