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Titre:
René Burri: explosions of sight

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A member of the famous artist-owned photo agency Magnum Photos, Swiss photographer René Burri (1933–2014) found himself wherever history was happening during the late twentieth century. His countless travels took him across Europe and the Americas to the Middle East to Japan and China to document the twentieth century’s major events. His extraordinary sense for people and their personalities resulted in remarkably candid portraits of celebrities, such as architects Le Corbusier, Oscar Niemeyer, and Luis Barragán; artists Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, and Jean Tinguely; and Che Guevara, whose 1963 portrait with a cigar is one of the world’s most famous and widely reproduced photographic portraits. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 'René Burri: Explosions of Sight' draws from Burri’s vast archive. With the museum, Burri staged both his first exhibition and his first major retrospective and maintained a close relationship throughout his life, entrusting it also with the conservation of his estate. The book brings together for the first time Burri’s entire body of work, both photographic and nonphotographic, including previously unpublished archival documents, as well as book designs, exhibition projects, travel diaries, collages, watercolors, and objects Burri collected. In doing so, it offers a new and uniquely intimate view of one of the world’s greatest photographers.

Titre:
La mémoire du futur

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Cet ouvrage confronte les travaux d'artistes contemporains et des oeuvres créées par les pionniers des premiers procédés photographiques. L'interview de A. Cartier-Bresson permet de retracer l'histoire des techniques photographiques pour mieux comprendre l'intérêt des photographes contemporains pour les pratiques anciennes.

Titre:
La beauté des lignes : collection Gilman et Gonzalez-Falla

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L’ouvrage présente une sélection de chefs-d’œuvre de l’histoire de la photographie issus de la collection de Sondra Gilman et Celso Gonzalez-Falla, constituée de plus de 1500 tirages originaux des plus grands photographes des XXe et XXIe siècles et basée à New York. Par des confrontations formelles et visuelles, le lecteur est invité à expérimenter à travers ces œuvres la puissance de la ligne photographique. Les photographies notamment de Bérénice Abbott, Eugène Atget, Robert Adams, Walker Evans, Vik Muniz, Man Ray, Nan Goldin ou encore Lee Friedlander entrent ainsi en résonnance au-delà de leur temporalité historique ou de considérations géographiques, par des correspondances formelles.

Titre:
Jan Groover, photographer: a laboratory of forms

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Published to coincide with an exhibition at Musee de l'Elysee in autumn 2019 and generously illustrated, 'Jan Groover, Photographer: Laboratory of Forms' traces the artist's career from the beginnings in America to her late years in western France. Having started her career as a painter, when she turned to photography in the 1970s she developed a distinct artistic attitude that saw her amalgamate the disciplines of photography and painting. She was especially known for her carefully composed photographic still-lifes. Essays on her life and work, her significance as an artist, alongside a very personal contribution by her husband, French artist and critic Bruce Boice, complement the images.