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4/9/2012

Three exhibitions

Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris

Claude Nori
Editeur et photographe

This exhibition pays tribute to Claude Nori, a unique figure in the history of French photography. For the first time, it presents in parallel the Contrejour publishing venture and Claude Nori’s own photography.
The show evokes the special atmosphere of a period of freshness and discovery when anything seemed possible; situates the context in which Contrejour was created; highlights its main publications over a period of almost twenty years; and presents the work of photographers whose talent was first revealed by Contrejour: Bernard Plossu, Mario Giacomelli, Luigi Ghirri, Anders Petersen, Marc Garanger and Sebastiao Salgado, to name but a few. It demonstrates the essential role of Claude Nori as a cultural agitateur as he brought this new creative photography to light. In parallel, it showcases Claude Nori’s own photographic work, a particular form of “photobiography” reflecting an epiphanic quest for happiness and love.

Coproduced by the MEP and the Rencontres Internationales de la Photo in Arles.

Catalogue: “Les désirs sont déjà des souvenirs”, Published by Contrasto

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Choi
Stenopes

After working in the graphic arts while studying at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Choi turned to photography and worked as a printer at a number of photo labs in Paris. Considered as the most talented printmaker of his generation, he is not only an admirable technician but also a uniquely inspired character who works with many major photographers. Since 2005, while continuing to work as a printmaker, he has undertaken his own artistic project first showcased in 2007 at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie with a series entitled “Autoportraits aux Enfers” (Self-portraits in Hell). His latest work, situated at the crossroads of photography and painting, shows strange figures and faces emerging from heavenly or infernal limbo. Made in a dark room using exposure times lasting several hours, these prints make use of the random creases of crumpled rice paper and carefully applied opaque pigments, and reinvent the age-old art of pinhole photography.

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Cedric Delsaux
Dark Lens

In the series entitled Dark Lens, familiar and disturbing characters from the Star Wars saga are placed in contemporary settings, socialized in the banal surroundings of our hyper-urbanized environment or against the grim backdrop of deserted post-industrial landscapes. They lose their original aura but acquire a kind of disquieting strangeness, giving the impression of running on empty and evoking a sense of violence devoid of purpose. Whereas Star Wars is a flamboyant epic telling the story of an intergalactic democracy gone bad, Dark Lens creates a contextual shift that resonates like a warning. Delsaux’s images provide a compelling evocation of already obsolete dictatorial technological power and provide a glimpse of a fictional but nonetheless possible future: an archeology of the worst-case scenario.

Catalogue: “Dark Lens”, Published by Editions Xavier Barral.

Exhibition presented as part of the European Month of Photography

Image: Choi, 05 © Choi

Press contact:
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