Signes / Signs Mark Power's first solo exhibition in Parisuntil january 26th, 2008

Mark Power was born in Harpenden, England in 1959. His photographs have been exhibited in galleries throughout the world and published in books and numerous magazines.
Mark Power joined Magnum Photos as a Nominee in 2002, became an Associate in 2005, and a full Member in 2007. Meanwhile, in his other life, he is Professor of photography at the University of Brighton, a city on England's south coast where he lives with his partner Jo and their children Chilli (b.1998) and Milligan (b.2002).


Signes / Signs is an exhibition of approximately 60 works from across Mark Power's career at the Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian in central Paris from 15 November until 26 January 2008. Selected by the Portuguese Jorge Calado, 'Signes' is Power's first solo show in Paris.

Mark Power "Signes/Signs"
In collaboration with MAGNUM PHOTOS
from Thursday november 15th to January 26th, 2008

Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian
www.gulbenkian-paris.org
51 Avenue d'iéna
75016 Paris

métro : Etoile, Kléber, Georges V, Iéna
bus : 30, 31, 92

Geographic Treasures of the Society of Geography at the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Abu Simbel, African horse riders, Japanese SamouraÎ, impressive trees ... Discover at the BnF's Gallery of Photography, photographs from the famous Society of Geography. A testimony to the state of the world and its upheavals in the 19th century, but also the passion for inventory embedded in scholars geographers of the 19th century. A unique collection to see again and again.

The Society of Geography was founded in 1821 in Paris by 217 personalities that made up the scholarly elite of the time. Its establishment and its ambitions are in keeping with a vast enterprise of knowledge and discovery in the world.
The booming of photography, contemporary to the exploration great movement of the second half of the 19th century, makes it possible to refresh the imagination of the Western world for the unknown. Lonely travelers, scientific expeditions, religious, civil or military missions brought back the first images from regions and peoples hitherto ignored to Westerners.

The photographic collections of the Society of Geography, exceptional by their originality, their diversity and remarkable consistency, are a unic source for the history of travels and discoveries in the 19th century and in the first half of the 20thcentury. Spontaneously gathered and then, from 1881, collected and combined into a single fund under the leadership of the librarian James Jackson, these photographs come from foreign and french members but also outside correspondents of the Society: soldiers, diplomats, engineers, explorers and travelers it sponsored.

Geographic Treasures of the Society of Geography
Exhibition from September 18th to December 16th, 2007

Bibliothèque nationale de France
http://expositions.bnf.fr/socgeo/index.htm
site Richelieu – Galerie de photographie
58, rue de Richelieu, 75002 Paris

Metro : Lines 3 (Bourse),1 and 7 (Palais-Royal), 7 and 14 (Pyramides)
Bus : 20, 29, 39, 67, 74 , 85

Open from Tuesday to Saturday (10.00am to 7.00pm) and Sunday (12.00pm to 7.00pm) except Monday
Exhibition Full rate 7 € Reduced rate 5 €