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The Egg Before the Hen, the Photograph Before History
In 1923, in a Paris studio, a man in a dark suit stares intently at an egg balanced in an egg cup, as if waiting for it to confess. This photograph opens “Premières fois / Premières photos” (“First Times / First Photographs”), the exhibition Luce Lebart has curated for the Pavillon Populaire in Montpellier, running through November 1, to mark the Bicentennial of photography.
L’œuf avant la poule, la photo avant l’histoire
En 1923, dans un studio parisien, un homme en costume sombre scrute un œuf posé dans un coquetier, comme s’il en attendait un aveu. Cette photographie ouvre « Premières fois / Premières photos », l’exposition que Luce Lebart consacre au Pavillon Populaire de Montpellier jusqu’au premier novembre, à l’occasion du Bicentenaire de la photographie.
Harry Gruyaert: Away from Home, Yet Everywhere at Home
Decades of wandering, and never so much as a compass. Harry Gruyaert needs nothing more than color, seized in passing, the way one steals a moment from a city: that is the entire substance of “A Sense of Place,” his exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles.
