Dolorès Marat, La femme au sac à main, Charles-de-Gaulle-Étoile, 1987 © Dolorès Marat / Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.
Dolorès Marat, La femme au sac à main, Charles-de-Gaulle-Étoile, 1987 © Dolorès Marat / Collection Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris.
The exhibition reflects the singular gaze of various artists on the capital over the last thirty years. A testimony to both the evolution of the image and urban transformations, this journey, freely inspired by Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities, explores, in counterpoint, several essential themes. The territory (Parisian and metropolitan), space (urban and intimate), and social life (integrated or marginalized) are traversed, with great freedom, by highly talented photographers and video artists.
Among the works from the collections of the City of Paris, we find photographs and videos by renowned artists such as Chris Marker, Stéphane Couturier, Mohamed Bourouissa, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Martin Parr, William Klein, and Patrick Faigenbaum, displayed here alongside the work of younger emerging photographers such as Mathilde Geldhof.
The exhibition reflects the singular gaze cast by artists on the capital over the last thirty years. Bearing witness to both the evolution of the image and urban transformations, the journey, freely inspired by Italo Calvino's book Invisible Cities, explores, in counterpoint, several major themes. The territory (Parisian and metropolitan), space (urban and intimate), and social life (integrated or marginalized) are thus traversed, with complete freedom, by highly talented photographers and video artists. Among the works from the collections of the City of Paris are photographs and videos by renowned artists such as Chris Marker, Stéphane Couturier, Mohamed Bourouissa, Jane Evelyn Atwood, Martin Parr, William Klein, and Patrick Faigenbaum, shown here alongside the work of younger emerging photographers such as Mathilde Geldhof.
Curated by: Anne Cartier-Bresson, Chief Heritage Curator, Director of the Photograph Restoration and Conservation Workshop of the City of Paris, and Claire Berger-Vachon, associate curator.
The exhibition will open on Thursday, March 2 at 5:00 pm and will be open to the public until April 6, 2017.
