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Home > News > Exhibit - Paris, capital of photography 1920-40
21/02/2010
FLORENCE, ITALY PARIS, CAPITAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY 1920-40, The Christian Bouqueret
Collection January,14th - April, 11th 2010 In the early 1920s onwards, Paris
became a nexus for the cultural avant-garde. The city's status as the centre of
new European photography was undisputed. Photographers from all sorts of
countries and backgrounds came to Paris, attracted by the city's reputation for
modernity and economic prosperity. Many foreign artists facing exile saw Paris
as a refuge and a haven of freedom. Photography in France thus came to
enjoy a period of great creative energy, both individual and collective. French
photographers including Jacques-André Boiffard, Florence Henri, Maurice Tabard,
Roger Schall, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Emmanuel Sougez, Pierre Boucher, and René
Zuber rubbed shoulders with foreign photographers who had come to live in
Paris, either by choice or because events had forced them to flee their
homelands. They included the Germans Germaine
Krull, Erwin Blumenfeld, Marianne Breslauer, Gisèle Freund, and Ilse Bing, the
Hungarians Ergy Landau, André Kertész, Rogi-André, André Steiner, François
Kollar, and Brassaï, the Russians Hoyningen-Huene and Rudomine, the Americans
Man Ray and Berenice Abbott, the Belgian Raoul Ubac, and the Lithuanian Moses
Vorobeichic, better known as Moï Ver, to name but a few. Many of these photographers were
doubly outsiders: not only were they expatriates living far from their home
countries, they were also young, avant-garde artists breaking with cultural
tradition. This cultural melting-pot led to particularly rich encounters
between certain photographers, crossing the boundaries of nationality, such as
Man Ray and his French assistant Jacques-André Boiffard and Germaine Krull and
her Romanian-born assistant Eli Lotar. Lotar also later worked for Jean
Painlevé, Raoul Ubac, and Erwin Blumenfeld.
Open: 10am / 7 pm (Wednesdays
closed) Admissions:
Adults €9 (includes exhibit and Museum)- Reduced €7.50 - Admission charge for
schools: €4 per person |
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