Mirror, mirror on the wall... from november 19th to december 2nd, 2007 at the Galerie du Lucernaire

This exhibition is presented by the galerie du Lucernaire within the « Le 6ème, ateliers d’artistes » open doors week in Paris.

3 photographers…

Paul Muse is born in England in 1960. Photographer since he is eleven year old. After some litterature, Photo and cinema studies, he briefly worked in advertising before leaving the country for a two year stay in Sudan, then Portugal for 3 years. Moving to Paris in 1990, he since devoted himself to street photography and published his first solo exhibition in 1996. Since the summer of 2006, he works on the "Today" project, a daily newspaper in pictures and words, published on his website.

Frances Ryan settled down in Paris after years spent wandering around the world. It is only when she discovered the work of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston she decided to work exclusively in black and white. She runs through Paris, her city of adoption, to share with us the hidden secrets and her personnal vision of the city.

After studying Spanish litterature and Art History in Madrid and Paris, Laurence Toussaint worked for about 10 years at the contemporary art library Artcurial. Passionate for photography, she specialized in gardens and landscape and illustrate books about the wonders of nature.

Mirror, mirror on the wall...
Photographies by Paul Muse, Frances Ryan, Laurence Toussaint
from november 19th to december 2nd, 2007

Galerie du Lucernaire
http://www.lucernaire.fr/galerie.html
53, rue Notre Dame des Champs
75006 Paris
Free entrance (1st floor)
Monday to Saturday from 10am to 10pm
Sunday from 02pm to 10pm

Photoquai, 1st Still images Biennial in the World At the Quai Branly museum, Paris until November 25th, 2008

A biennial dedicated to contemporary photography
Photoquai was designed by the Quai Branly Museum as a contemporary biennial dedicated to non-Western visual arts. Its purpose has raised the interest of the institutions located along the Seine. They were approached by the Quai Branly Museum to be partners of the first edition of Photoquai.


For the first edition 2007 - which combines outside exhibitions promenade to silver prints display within institutions, as well as forums and workshops, the heart of the project lies mainly between the Eiffel Tower and the Pont de l 'Alma.
The Seine is the core symbolic anchor of the event; in accordance with the "popular" nature of the event, Photoquai proposes, along with exhibitions scheduled within partner institutions, street exhibitions, free of charge to the general public, on the docks the Seine along the Quai Branly museum. These exhibitions are the heart of Photoquai, and make the link between the different institutions.

Partner institutions (see list below)
- The Australian embassy
- The Brazilian embassy
- Bibliothèque Nationale de France - National Library of France
- The cultural center of China in Paris
- la Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine - City of Architecture and Heritage
- The Polish institute
- la Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume
- la Maison européenne de la photographie - The European House of Photography
- le musée national de la Marine - The National Maritime Museum

photoquai : 3 exhibitions at the quai Branly museum
West Gallery (suspended)
Two photographic exhibitions are presented simultaneously in the space usually dedicated to the main anthropology exhibition.

Ruby’s Room (1998-2007)Ruby's Room (1998-2007)
October 30, 2007-January 13, 2008

Commissioner: Yves Le Fur, Deputy Director and Heritage Collections at the Quai Branly Museum.

This series of very large images testify of the original glaze that the artist focuses on childhood, through an exploration of "what children do with their mouths". Respected figure of photography in New Zealand, Anne Noble talks about his work as an "alternative" archeology. Dedicated to the artist's daughter, Ruby, the series of forty photographs has been unveiled to the public in New Zealand, Australia, Germany and Spain. Thanks to a scale voluntarily disproportionate to the apparent banality of the subject, the use of contrasting colors and that direct flash, the artist seeks to emphasize in an unusual manner details of a body part, the mouth, in its many functions symbolic food, speech, language, and so on.

Camera obscura, the first daguerreotype portraits (1841-1851)
October 30, 2007-January 13, 2008

Commissioner Christine Barthe, head of photographic collections of the Quai Branly Museum.

The museum maibtain among its collections of old photographs a set of particularly outstanding daguerreotypes, some of which were shown at the "D’un regard l’Autre" exhibition. Moved to the West Gallery next to "Ruby's Room", another photographic exhibition consisting of large colorful prints, The Daguerréotypes plays on contrast of formats, colors, and technology - proposing a fugitive image through perceived reflection. This exhibition will present more particularly daguerreotypes made in East Africa by Charles Guillain, frigate captain, between 1846 and 1848.

Walker Evans
October 30, 2007-November 25, 2007

quai Branly Museum/ Sessions Pavillion

The Quai Branly Museum owns one of the 17 portfolios made by Walker Evans, for the African art exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1935. It is one of the few portfolios in this series in the world yet complete, which contains a selection of statues and masks (477 images).
With Photoquai, the Pavilion Sessions visitor will be able to see those outstanding images side by side with masterpieces that have inspired them, or objects that are close enough.

Photoquai « Forum »Debates, exchanges, meetings with artists, videographers, agencies and international festivals from China, Latin America, Africa… At the Claude Lévi-Strauss theater, the following activities will be debated: on the one hand, the question of commited images vs. anthropological gaze. Humanitarian approach - and, secondly, the existence of alternative structures for image broadcast.
30 and 31 October, Theater Claude Lévi-Strauss.
November 16 and 17, Theater Claude Lévi-Strauss.



Photoquai "studio" This year, the School of Architecture in Paris (ESA) will present the work of his students, from Jerusalem, Melbourne, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Singapore, Wellington. Leurs homologues français, en échange eux aussi pour un semestre, serviront de relais au projet dans les écoles partenaires de l'ESA à travers le monde. Their French counterparts, also in exchange for a semester, will serve as a relay to the project in ESA partners schools throughout the world. A project with the "National Higher School of Photography" in Arles (ENSP) and "Les Gobelins", the image school is underway for future editions of Photoquai.
30 octobre au 25 novembre, Théâtre Claude Lévi-Strauss. October 30 to November 25, Theater Claude Lévi-Strauss.

The outdoor exhibits presented Quai Branly and on the Debilly bridge are freely available every day from October 30 to November 25.


Musée du quai Branly
www.quaibranly.fr
October 30-November 25
Anne Noble, and Ruby's Room "Camera obscura, the first daguerreotype portrait, 1841-1851"
Admission to the museum is done by the 206 and 218 rue de l'Université
or by 27, 37 or 51 Quai Branly - 75007 Paris
Tuesday, Wednesday, Sunday: 11h - 19h
Thursday, Friday, Saturday: 11 am to 21h
Weekly closing on Monday
The exhibitions are on the West Gallery suspended from the Shelf Collections




Indoor exhibits


Australian Embassy
30 octobre – 25 novembre
Ricky Maynard, Portrait of a distant land
4, rue Jean Rey - 75015 Paris
Du lundi au vendredi, de 9h à 17h sauf jours fériés
Par métro : Bir-Hakeim ou RER Champ de Mars
Entrée libre
Plus d'infos http://www.france.embassy.gov.au/

Brasilian Embassy
30 octobre – 9 novembre
Sebastião Salgado, Indiens du haut Xingu
14 – 30 novembre
Carlos Freire, Avatars
34, cours Albert 1er - 75008 Paris
Tel : 01 45 61 63 00
Plus d'infos http://www.bresil.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=category§ionid=5&id=187&Itemid=49&cataff=187

Bibliothèque Nationale de France – site Richelieu
18 septembre – 16 décembre
Trésors photographiques de la société de géographie
58, rue de Richelieu - 75002 Paris
Du mardi au samedi de 10h à 19h
Le dimanche de 12h à 19h
Fermeture le lundi et les jours fériés
Tarif plein : 7 euros
Tarif réduit : 5 euros
Par métro : lignes 3 (Bourse),1 et 7 (Palais-Royal), 7 et 14 (Pyramides)
Par bus : 20, 29, 39, 67, 74, et 85
Plus d'infos http://www.bnf.fr/pages/zNavigat/frame/pratic.htm

China cultural Center in Paris
30 octobre – 25 novembre
Trois photographes chinois contemporains
1, boulevard de la Tour Maubourg - 75007 Paris
Du lundi au samedi : 10h – 12h et 14h – 18h
Entrée libre
Par métro : lignes 8 et 13 - Invalides ou Tour Maubourg
Par RER C : Invalides
Plus d'infos http://www.cccparis.org/newsite/exposition_Photoquai.htm

Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine
30 octobre – 25 novembre
Architecture sans architecte en terre malienne
Palais de Chaillot
1, place du Trocadéro et du 11 novembre - 75016 Paris
Entrée libre
Plus d'infos http://www.citechaillot.fr/activite/evenements.php?init&id=167

Polish Institute
27 octobre – 14 novembre
Bogdan Konopka & Luo Yongjin, La Chine, les saveurs du divers
17 – 23 novembre
Krystyna Ziach, Infinity
31, rue Jean Goujon - 75008 Paris
Du lundi au vendredi : 9h30 – 17h
Entrée libre
Plus d'infos

Gallerie Françoise Paviot
27 octobre - 8 décembre
Bogdan Konopka, "Chine, l'Empire du gris"
57, rue Saint-Anne - 75002 Paris
Tél : 01 42 60 10 01
Ouvert au public du jeudi au samedi de 14h30 à 19h et sur rendez-vous
Samedi code porte : 45 B 67
Par métro : Quatre-Septembre et Pyramides
Par bus : 39

Gallerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume
16 octobre – 11 novembre
Omar Amiralay, rétrospective
1, place de la Concorde - 75008 Paris
Mardi (nocturne) : 12h à 21h
Mercredi à vendredi : 12h à 19h
Samedi et dimanche : 10h à 19h
Fermeture le lundi
Tarif plein : 6 euros
Tarif réduit : 3 euros
Par métro : Concorde (lignes 1, 8, 12)
Par bus : 24, 42, 72, 73, 84, 94
Plus d'infos http://www.jeudepaume.org/?page=article&sousmenu=1&idArt=313&lieu=1

European House of photography
10 octobre – 25 novembre
« Micro-ondes » - installation photographique de Rogiero Reis
5/7, rue de Fourcy - 75004 Paris
Ouvert tous les jours de 11 heures à 20 heures, sauf les lundis, mardis et jours fériés
Plein tarif : 6 euros
Demi-tarif : 3 euros
Par métro : Saint Paul ou Pont Marie
Par bus : 67, 69, 96 ou 76
Plus d'infos http://www.mep-fr.org/maison.htm

Musée national de la Marine
24 octobre – 25 novembre
« Suez Désiré, ou le paysage métamorphosé »
Palais de Chaillot
17, place du Trocadéro - 75116 Paris
Le musée est ouvert tous les jours (sauf le mardi, le 25 décembre, le 1er janvier et le 1er mai) de 10h à 18h
Plein tarif : 9 euros
Tarif réduit : 7 euros
Tarif 6-18 ans : 5 euros
Par métro : Trocadéro
Par bus : 22, 30, 32, 63, 72, 82
Batobus : Tour Eiffel
Plus d'infos http://www.musee-marine.fr/site/fr/horaires_acces_paris

Pavillon des Sessions, musée du Louvre
30 octobre – 25 novembre
Walker Evans, photographies
Entrée par la Porte des Lions
Tous les jours sauf le mardi et le vendredi de 9h à 18h, nocturnes jusqu'à 22h le mercredi
Par métro : Palais-Royal/musée du Louvre
Par bus : 21, 24, 27, 39, 48, 68, 69, 72, 81, 95
Plus d'infos http://www.quaibranly.fr/fr/collections/pavillon-des-sessions-au-musee-du-louvre/informations-pratiques-pavillon-des-sessions-du-louvre/index.html

Helen Levitt at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation Street Set until December 23rd, 2007

Until December 23rd, the HCB Foundation will be showing a rare collection of black & white and colour images made by the great American photographer Helen Levitt in New York and Mexico between the 1930's and 1980's.
Helen Levitt is one of the great living poets of urban life. Best known for her images of life on the streets of New York in the 1930's and 1940's, her photographs reveal the gentle and subtle expressions and gestures of adults engaged in conversation and children at play in mysterious and inventive ways.

Helen Levitt started her carreer as a photographer in the '30 in New York, the city she loves more than anything else. But she always choosed carefully her playground: Brooklyn, Harlem, Lower East Side, where social misery strikes. Her glaze isn't accusatory. she stares without bias, sensitive to a rampant urban poetry but beyond everything to people crawling everywhere, bringing streets to life et moreover children playing games still innocent. The set is up for ever. Helen levitt won't change it, faithfull to herself et to the society she's depicting tenderly.


Levitt grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Dropping out of school, she taught herself photography while working for a commercial photographer. While teaching some classes in art to children in 1937, Levitt became intrigued with the transitory chalk drawings that were part of the New York children's street culture of the time. She purchased a Leica camera and began to photograph these works as well as the children who made them. The resulting photographs appeared, to great acclaim, in 1987 as In The Street: chalk drawings and messages, New York City 1938–1948. Named as one of the "100 best photo-books", first-editions are now highly collectable.


She studied with Walker Evans 1938 and 1939. In 1943 Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art curated her first solo exhibition, after which she began to find press work as a documentary photographer. In the late 1940s she briefly became a film director, working with James Agee, with whom she shot the short art film In the Street. In 1959 and 1960, she received two Guggenheim Foundation grants to take colour photographs on the streets of New York but much of this work was stolen in a burglary. The remaining photos, and others taken in the following years, can be seen in the book Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt (May 2005). Her first major book was A Way of Seeing (1965). In 1976 she was a Photography Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts.

She has remained active as a photographer for nearly 70 years and still lives in New York City. The New York's "visual poet laureate" is notoriously private and publicity shy.


Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
web: www.henricartierbresson.org/
2, impasse Lebouis 75014 Paris
tél. : 01 56 80 27 01

Metro : Gaité, line 13, exit n° 1, next to Rue de l'Ouest
Edgard Quinet, line 6

From Tuesday to Sunday from 1 PM to 6.30 PM
Saturday from 11 AM to 6.45 PM
Late night Wednesdays until 8.30 PM
Closed on Mondays and on November 1st

Admission:
6 € adults
3 € students, seniors and unemployed
Free on Wednesday evening (6.30 PM - 8.30 PM) and for the Friends of the Foundation

FROM THE STREET TO THE NIGHT @ Colette

"Icon hypster" Colette set up an exhibition around night photographers and street ones.
A really interesting mix with argentic big names and digital celebrities, all withnesses of our world and the next trends.

“From The Street to the Night” exhibition until November 3rd with Amy Arbus, Bob Colacello, Hans Eijkelboom, The Sartorialist, Face Hunter, Cobra Snake, the Misshapes, Alistair Allan, Marco dos Santos, Jeremy Kost, Façade & many blogs…
An exhibition focusing on day –in the streets- & on night –in the clubs- photography. From Paris to New York, from Berlin to Tokyo & from L.A to Shangai. It is a complete photographic report in an era of photo blogs that are witnessing our time on a day-to-day basis. In the streets, in clubs, in private parties, during catwalks, with friends, in front of celebs, in the middle of unknowns, the new portrayer is everywhere.
Through “From The Street to the Night” colette pays tribute to those artists who capture our time with talent, slenderness, humor, intellect & of course a trumendous energy.

Blogs:
Fromthestreettothenight.blogspot.com
linleeloves.blogspot.com: Australian Linlee Allen compares Los Angeles to Paris.
hel-looks.com: Helsinki streets.
style-arena.jp: Tokyo streets by neighborhood.
stilinberlin.blogspot.com: Berlin streets.
damstyle.blogspot.com: Amsterdam streets.

Colette
www.colette.fr/
213 rue Saint-Honoré - 75001 Paris - France
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.
Subway Tuileries or Pyramides / Bus line 68 or 72