Photographies, New acquisitions 2003-2007 until January 07th, 2008 at the Pompidou center

The Centre Pompidou presents a selection of recent acquisitions of the Cabinet de la photographie. Over the last five years, 1,750 works by 250 artists have been added to the collection.

Commissaires / organisateurs:
Mnam/Cci - Quentin Bajac - Clément Cheroux

Photographs, New acquisitions, 2003-2007
Until January 7th, 2008
Museum Gallery - 11h00 - 21h00
10€, 8€

Centre Pompidou
http://www.centrepompidou.fr
Place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris

every day from 11am to 10pm, except Tuesdays and May 1

Underground : Rambuteau, Hôtel de Ville, Châtelet
RER trains : Châtelet /Les Halles
Buses : 21 / 29 / 38 / 47 / 58 / 69 / 70 / 72 / 74 / 75 / 76 / 81 / 85 / 96

Car park
Rue Beaubourg and Les Halles underpass entrances

RINEKE DIJKSTRA:"Park Portraits" until January 19th,2008 at the Marian Goodman Gallerie

Reception Friday December 07th 2007, 06-08 pm at the Marian Goodman Gallerie

Following a fantastic traveling retrospective of her work, Rineke Dijkstra has recently unveiled her latest project - a new series of portraits of young people photographed, in city parks of the world, in which the artist's lens majestically captures life and the nuances of timeless rites of passage, and of identity, in medias res, an updated, modern album of magical woodland creatures. 'Park portraits', on show at the Marian Goodman Gallery in Paris, include images of schoolchildren and adolescents engaged in the rituals of their daily life, whether it be playing, socialising, resting, thinking, in city parks in Europe, China and the United States.

It's interesting that of all the portraits, varied as they are in focus and expression, not a single one is in what is known as a 'portrait' format. Using the lush framework of traditional landscape in a seemingly offhand manner echoes part of the sense of Dijkstra's latest images of youth - the natural and inevitable merging of two subjects, both personal and universal, which are in a state of constant change, and for which there is a longstanding artistic fascination to converse with and overturn. Writing about the park portraits in a Dutch daily newspaper during the time of the Stedelijk show, Kees Keijer wrote: 'Dijkstra let go of her former austerity and photographed four young people in Amsterdam during a "Dejeuner sur l'herbe anno 2005". Again the work is frontal, but now the pose is relaxed. The surroundings in Dijkstra's work used to be extremely sober; now, candy wrappings and empty soft drink bottles are lying about. A gaping rucksack zipper offers a nearly symbolic perspective on a different reality: one of homework, commitments and expectations for the future. But they don't want to think about that just now'.

The new body of work is slightly more playful than Dijkstra's previous, rather more austere series documenting the rites of passage of adolescence and childhood, from the 'Beach Portraits' of 1992, to the video installation 'Buzzclub/Mysterworld' (1996-1997), the 'Tiergarten Series' (1998-2000), 'Israeli soldiers' (1999-2000), and the single-subject portraits in serial transition: 'Almerisa' (1994-2005), 'Shany' (2001-2003) and 'Olivier' (2000-2003). In 'Park portraits', the portrait seems to shape the subject's possession of their own identity, now performing for us in a new, uncontrollable theatre of characters, safe in the comfort of their favorite spot.

Rineke Dijkstra. Park Portraits
December 07th,2007 to January 19th,2008

Marian Goodman Gallerie
http://www.mariangoodman.com/mg/paris.html
79, rue du Temple
75003 Paris

Metro Rambuteau
Free entrance 18h-20h

T. 01 48 04 70 52
Mail: parisgallery@mariangoodman.com

My Blueberry Nights prints from Darius Khondji for Wong Kar Wai at colette until January 07th

From December 3rd until January 7th, exhibition at colette of high quality panoramic pictures made during spotting by Darius Khondji for the Wong Kar Wai movie My Blueberry Nights. Collector book edited by Xavier Barral premiering for sale at colette starting December 3rd 2007.


colette
http://www.colette.fr/
213 rue Saint-Honoré
75001 Paris
Tel: +33 1 55 35 33 90 - Fax: +33 1 55 35 33 99
contact@colette.fr
Open from Monday to Saturday 11am to 7pm.
Metro : Tuileries or Pyramides / Bus line 68 or 72

Galerie: galerie@colette.fr - Tel: +33 1 55 35 33 97

Hedi Slimane /// Perfect Stranger Until January 5th, 2008

It is not on a podium that the designer Hedi Slimane is making his come-back but at the Galerie Almine Rech in Paris with the exhibition "Hedi Slimane / / / Perfect Stranger."

This art project was originally commissioned by the MUSAC. The Leon's Museum of Contemporary Art in Spain asked the designer to create a set of multimedia documents on the 2007 edition of the Benicassim festival. This rock rendez-vous had gathered last July some of the biggest names in the international arena such as Iggy & The Stooges, Nouvelle Vague, Dinosaur Jr, Amy Winehouse, Cassius, Muse, Unklle ... "Hedi Slimane /// Perfect Stranger" is a video, sound and photography tour in the heart of this festival. An exhibition at MUSAC and a book will follow this first step in the Paris gallery.




Hedi Slimane /// Perfect Stranger
www.hedislimane.com/diary/index.php
from Novembre 29th, 2007 to January 5th, 2008

Galerie Almine Rech
http://www.galeriealminerech.com/
19, rue de Saintonge
75003 Paris

Open from Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 07pm

Métro ; Art et métiers (ligne 3)
Fille du calvaire (ligne 8)
Bus : 96 (Arret Bretagne); 29 (arret rue vieille du temple)

www.hedislimane.com
www.myspace.com/hedislimaneofficial

Rodin and photography Until March 2nd, 2008 at Musée Rodin

Luck would have it that Rodin was born one year after photography. While he pursued his career as a sculptor, this new reproduction technique experienced what was probably its most fertile and inventive years. The artist was by no means oblivious to the practical and aesthetic appeal of this new medium, and the approximately 7,000 pictures he amassed between 1879 and 1917 illustrate both his own story and the history of photography.


Photography has opened for us the doors of his studio, which lay at the heart of his creation during the 1880s. This is where lumps of clay took shape, The Burghers of Calais were modelled naked before being clothed, and The Gates of Hell covered with a multitude of figures. Rodin started by hiring unknown photographers from the neighbourhood, Bodmer, Pannelier and Freuler who, unlike him, remained in the shadows. And then the clay figures were transformed into plaster, bronze and marble, and the studio became increasingly crowded. By the end of the 1890s, Rodin was an artist recognised by both his peers and the general public. Eugène Druet, an amateur photographer, followed by Jacques-Ernest Bulloz, became his official photographers, each one in his own manner following Rodin’s precise instructions.

Your photographs will make people understand my Balzac

A.Rodin to E. Steichen

This evolution in the role and place of photography in the sculpted work of Rodin is an accurate reflection of what happened in the early 20th century: photography was viewed under a different angle so that it gradually attained the status of an artwork.

This large-scale exhibition, devoted to the photographic collection of the Rodin Museum, will present 200 photographs for the first time since the Salon des Pictorialistes held in 1993. A catalogue, jointly published by the Rodin Museum and Gallimard, will accompany the exhibition.

RODIN AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Exhibition from 14th November 2007 to 2nd March 2008

Musée Rodin
www.musee-rodin.fr
79, rue de Varenne
75007 Paris

Metro Varenne (line 13)

Opening hours: 9.30am-4.45pm every day except Mondays.
Closed 25th December and 1st January
Admission price: Adults 6 euros, concession 4 euros.
Combined exhibition + permanent collection ticket + garden: 9€, concession: 6€

City and transparencies - Adrienne Arth photographies From November 24th to December 15th, 2007 at Tampon-Ramier

In the exhibition "City and transparencies" Adrienne Arth is going even further than usual in her stagging of the real world. Here, it's the movement and the race, the mass and the colour that are captured.

Legs, feet, bodies, faces, stolen moves on a metro exit, in a building reflection, in a train... We're witnessing a dislocation, a ripping of the reality. A sudden roar burst, a town is appearing: Paris, scarefied with humans, lives, traces... Photographs becomes a game of matters and shapes of many layers. The human being becomes a shape in space, a fulcrum where the eye stops and bounce back. In her work, the abstraction look is dominating, but also a definitive modern approach and a more radical photogrphic aesthetic.

City and transparencies - Adrienne Arth photographies
From November 24th to December 15th, 2007

L’Atelier Tampon-Ramier
http://www.ateliertampon-ramier.over-blog.com/
14, rue Jules Vallès
75011 Paris
Tel : 0143735346

Free entrance

Xavier Zimbardo. The apparitions' genius from November 29th, 2007 to January 10th at the Albert Benamou Gallerie

Since he escaped, twenty years ago, the verb archipelago where his teaching profession restricted him in order to give full time to his role as image creator, Xavier Zimbardo reported from his vagabondages through continents and worlds a stunning collection of photographic works. Nothing to do with documentaries cliches, anecdotal, quaint or exotic pictures. Each of his images has to be seen as an apparition, where the share of imagination, random effects and the inspirationnal impromptu haunt the scope of reality.

Whether views, scenes, portraits, this flash from another world make the snapshot iridescent. The aim of the artist is not to duplicate what he technically has under the eyes, but to subjectively produce what makes, from the bottom of his eye to the abbyss of the hypothalamus, the singular illumination of the captured image. From the shoot to the impression, through work on negative or the screen every Zimbardo's work is as accomplished as a dance on your optic nerve. Always with a need to dive his focal, mental, libidinal objective beyond visible, inviting our gaze to bear on the side of the wandering soul of things, living and worlds. That earned him the title of shaman photographer.



Xavier Zimbardo. Le génie des apparitions (The apparitions' genius)
Exhibition from November 29th, 2007 to January 10th, 2008

Albert Benamou Gallerie
www.benamou.net
24, rue de Penthièvre
75008 Paris
Tel : 01 45 63 12 21
Fax : 01 45 63 22 11
18h-21h

Email : albertbenamou@gmail.com

Fantasy - What Ever Happened to Your Dreams ? Until January 12th at the Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire

The English term "Fantasy", which means both fantasy and the fantastic, serves as a guide to the exhibition What Ever Happened to Your Dreams ?
From November 24 to January 19, at the Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Paris.

Erotical object and advetising privileged target, the child is often represented in contemporary art including photography and video. Adults (author or spectators of the image) have a tender and terrible glance to his World: sometimes seen as a double or a radical self, a mysterious being sometime hostile and cruel, nevertheless fragile and vulnerable, the child lives in a perfect or fantasy world where adults are projecting their fantasies.

The childlike universe, lures associated with an idyllic, fantastic or nightmarish virtuality, ideally takes shape in a fairy tale aesthetic. It is often referred to as a kind of lost Eden where fears and dangers, monsters and evil are hiding behind a prettiness display. It is that phantasmagoria that can be found in popular images.
In the latter, contemporary artists are allusively contributing while building on psychoanalysis and the contribution both cultural and technical of the photographic and film medium. If the works refer frequently and ambivalentely to the joys and anxieties related to the impulses of childhood - a time when dream / nightmare and reality are blending - affirmed staging, apparent or exaggerated digital manipulation are emerging as forms of symbolic resistance to the projections of desires and fears from adults and the roles they wish these childish figures will play.

The title of the exhibition at Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire: "What ever happened to your dreams?" is a direct reference to the 1960's Henry Farrell book adapted for the movies by Robert Aldrich in 1962, "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" It introduces the concepts of fantasy and duality between romance and terror, between purity and evil, embodied in the film by an aging Bette Davis locked in her child's wishes and lust for eternal youth, struggling with the perversity of Joan Crawford. This exhibition will put the emphasis on pieces illustrating the loss and the overwhelming desire for adults to preserve their dreams.

Fantasy - What Ever Happened to Your Dreams ?
from 24-11-2007 to 12-01-2008
Elke Boon, Maïder Fortuné, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Ellen Kooi, Mireille Loup,
Marie-France et Patricia Martin, Wendy McMurdo, Alessandra Sanguinetti, Santeri Tuori

Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire
Galerie les filles du calvaire
17, rue des Filles-du-calvaire
75003 Paris
Open from tuesday to saturday from 11:00 AM to 06:30 PM

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