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Jean-Christophe Béchet

Past exhibition
2012-02-03
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Jean-Christophe Béchet Las Vegas, Nevada Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
Jean-Christophe Béchet
Las Vegas, Nevada
Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm

 

In the wake of the mastery of twentieth century photographers, how can a photographer today photograph the U.S.A?   Jean-Christophe Béchet chooses to answer this recurring question from a personal perspective—that of the inquisitive traveler.  

 

 

 

Neither reporter nor photojournalist, he has opted for the professional profile of the visitor on foot who passes through places and follows his path checking out memories and putting his knowledge to the test of reality.

He attempts to tell the story of a country that over time has become increasingly battered and bruised.

 

This show highlights Béchet’s photography—over thirty photographs-- a kind of photographic sampling of his seventeen trips to the States over the period ranging from 1996 to 2011.  Most of the photographs are printed by Roland Dufau using the Cibachrome process.  


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Works
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Las Vegas, Nevada Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Las Vegas, Nevada
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Californie Tirage argentique noir et blanc baryté Dim. papier: 55,5 x 112
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Californie
    Tirage argentique noir et blanc baryté
    Dim. papier: 55,5 x 112
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Las Vegas, Nevada #12/13 Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Las Vegas, Nevada #12/13
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Californie Tirage Cibachrome réalisé par Roland Dufau Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Californie
    Tirage Cibachrome réalisé par Roland Dufau
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Las Vegas, Nevada #137 Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Las Vegas, Nevada #137
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Key West, Floride Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Key West, Floride
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Daytona Beach, Floride #199 Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Daytona Beach, Floride #199
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Monument Valley, Arizona Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Monument Valley, Arizona
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Kodak City, Rochester, NY Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Kodak City, Rochester, NY
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Gallup, Nouveau Mexique Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Gallup, Nouveau Mexique
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Daytona Beach, Floride #193 Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Daytona Beach, Floride #193
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Californie Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Californie
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Williams, Nevada #1 Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Williams, Nevada #1
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Daytona Beach, Floride #1 Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Daytona Beach, Floride #1
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Nevada #1 Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Nevada #1
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet San Francisco, California Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    San Francisco, California
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Williams #2 Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Williams #2
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Butte (Montana, USA) Tirage argentique sur papier baryté Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Butte (Montana, USA)
    Tirage argentique sur papier baryté
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Nouvelle Orleans, Louisiane Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Nouvelle Orleans, Louisiane
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
  • Jean-Christophe Béchet Nevada #2 Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome) Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
    Jean-Christophe Béchet
    Nevada #2
    Tirage Ilfochrome (Cibachrome)
    Dim. papier: 40 x 50 cm
Press
  • American Puzzle

    Télérama Sortir, 8 December 2011
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Press release
AMERICAN PUZZLE
 
 

« 1996, I go to the US for the first time. 15 years later, in 2011, I counted, I have been to the US 17 times. At first I naturally wanted to avoid the traditional, the cliche?, the been-said, the de?ja? vu.

In the field, two paths stood in front of me : seek the concept, the small series of objects, portraits or places that had not yet been captured. To show off and say : I was the first ! Or abandon these Olympiads of contemporary art, scoff forever at being « the first », and be happy with simply being yourself, which is already complex enough ... To do this there is no choice but to take on one’s legacy and to make it the basis for a contemporary point of view.

For a long time I thought I was visiting the heart of the « New World », but with the years I photographed an Old World, rattling and dented. Obviously the New World is elsewhere. Certainly in Asia. Yet America, this country-continent, is still fascinating and worrisome for a European. How to understand this adherence to the same values and signs : capitalism, the dollar, the flag, basketball hoops, Jesus, the cult of the automobile ? Yes, the American Way of Life is changing and adapting, but still exists.

Today, I do not know if I succeeded in avoiding this redundancy, I hope, but I know that no pleasure is vain if it is shared ... ».

Jean-Christophe Be?chet

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