Le Bal is a very special center for photography inaugurated in 2010 and located behind place Clichy in a discreet alleyway. The exhibition of 169 prints by Japanese American photographer Yasushiro Ishimoto, 1921-2012, is the most striking show I have ever seen there. And this is his first in Europe. Born in San Francisco, he was trained in Kochi, Japan, … Read More
Stephen Shore’s photographs, from vehicular to vernacular
Clément Chéroux, director of Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson was quite funny when he gave us the title of the new exhibit he curated: “From Vehicular to Vernacular”. What he meant is that Stephen Shore and he chose pictures from the huge sum of shots by the American photographer (b. 1947), which had all been taken from a vehicle or more recently … Read More
André Steiner at mahJ, what modernity!
Every museum in Paris is trying to have exhibitions with a theme related to the Olympic Games, with more or less success. Musée d’Art et d’Histone du Judaisme shows a small but particularly attractive exhibition of photographs by Hungarian artist André Steiner (1901-1978) who emigrated to France in 1928. Trained as a scientist at the Technische Universität in Vienna, he … Read More
The Albert Kahn Gardens, it’s time to go to Boulogne
Albert Kahn was a visionary and with the money he made on the stock exchange at the beginning of the 20 th century, he developed a systematic registry of autochromes, “Archives of the Planet”, shot by photographers whom he sent around the world to shoot great landscapes. The museum, set in the middle of his Japanese and English gardens of … Read More
Galliera, celebrates the Olympics and Paolo Roversi’s photographs
“La Mode en mouvement” (fashion on the move) is the second exhibition devoted to the permanent collections of the Palais Galliera, on sports and fashion. And what struck me this time is the amount of fans which were used in the XIX th and XX th century as well as the extraordinary swim ware collections developed by Jacques Heim in … Read More
The Jeu de Paume is closing from May 12 to September 28, and announces a brilliant season for the end of the year
Due to the Olympics, which will bar access to place de la Concorde and part of the Tuileries gardens all summer, the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume has to close down on May 12. So if you have not been yet, make sure to see the fabulous Tina Modotti exhibition and Bertille Bak (b.1983) “Out of Breath” who plays … Read More
Tina Modotti attracts the crowds at Jeu de Paume
Tina Modotti is mostly known as a Mexican photographer today and yet she was born in Udine, near Venice in 1896, lived in Klagenfurt, Austria, as a child, and immigrated with her family to San Francisco at 16. There, she was a seamstress, became a model and acted in a mute film in Hollywood. This is where she met Edward … Read More
Societies of friends are the new (social) power…
Now that everyone spends their time sending text messages and posting on Instagram, physical social life has virtually disappeared from our lives. I find myself enjoying talking to my baker more and more while buying a baguette! But little by little, “the Friends of…” and “Cercle des Mécènes” have developed and created cultural salons focused on specific themes. In music, … Read More