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Leon Levinstein
Choreography of the bodies
27 January - 25 March 2023
Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present its first solo exhibition dedicated to the work of Leon Levinstein. Composed of some thirty photographs taken over nearly thirty years, from the 1950s to the 1980s, the exhibition is a walk through the city, up close to the bodies that deploy...
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Robert Frank
American solitude
27 January - 25 March 2023
Robert Frank has rarely had his work exhibited in a gallery on the European continent, much less in France, so it is with immense pleasure that Les Douches La Galerie brings together a group of fifteen photos that belonged to Sid Kaplan , the man who made the prints, and...
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Tom Arndt
American Reflections
4 November 2022 - 21 January 2023
After
Home
in 2014, Les Douches la Galerie dedicates a new solo exhibition to the work of Tom Arndt. Alongside the publication of the book
American Reflections
by the Atelier EXB, the exhibition brings together twenty-six photographs taken from 1970 to the present day, and printed by the artist. Together,...
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Ernst Haas
The American West
4 November 2022 - 21 January 2023
On the occasion of the publication of the book
The American West
, Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present its fourth solo exhibition of Ernst Haas. Taken between 1952 and 1981, the thirty-two photographs presented here reflect his sensitive explorations of the Western landscapes and the broad technical...
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Frank Horvat, L'imprévisible
8 September - 29 October 2022
Nous présentons pour la première fois à la galerie, le travail de Frank Horvat. Un homme insaisissable qui a toujours aimé brouiller les pistes. Eu égard à la richesse de son oeuvre, nous avons privilégié ses photographies de mode. En faisant sortir les mannequins dans la rue, Frank Horvat a...
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Louis Faurer, Le guetteur mélancolique
8 September - 29 October 2022
Nous avons le plaisir de présenter notre première exposition personnelle de Louis Faurer. Un photographe américain dont l’œuvre reste largement confidentielle mais qui aura marqué ses contemporains. Excellant dans la lumière hypnotique du crépuscule avec ses photographies de Time Square, Louis Faurer s’est épanoui dans le New York des années...
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Ray K. Metzker, Light sculptor
11 May - 23 July 2022
For its third solo exhibition of Ray K. Metzker’s work, Les Douches la Galerie has assembled a new selection of photographs representative of his strength of experimentation and his mastery of the medium. From his graduation work in 1957-58 at the Institute of Design in Chicago to the
City Whispers
...
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Thomas Boivin, Fragments
11 May - 23 July 2022
Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present its first exhibition of Thomas Boivin, from May 11 to July 23, 2022. Bringing together about twenty photographs,
Fragments
recounts his explorations of the familiar streets of northeastern Paris and reveals his ability to suspend in light the scenes of the everyday.
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Bordering the Real
Surrealist photographs
18 February - 30 April 2022
Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present
Bordering the Real
, a group show exploring the importance of the photographic medium in surrealist practices from the late 1920s to the 1950s. Featuring the work of 12 artists, the exhibition gathers some 40 photographic prints that reflect on the uncanny in...
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Bogdan Konopka, Strains of Light
18 February - 30 April 2022
For its first solo exhibition of Bogdan Konopka’s work, Les Douches la Galerie presents a selection of photographs that reflect both his signature subjects and his masterful use of the medium. Taken between 1993 and 2017, these images evoke the power of nature and the movement of water, as well...
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The poetry of the gaze
Tribute to Sabine Weiss by her daughter Marion
27 January - 12 February 2022
In tribute to Sabine Weiss, Les Douches la Galerie presents from January 27 to February 12, 2022 an exhibition imagined with her daughter Marion Weiss.
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Vivian Maier, Grasping the Unexpected
5 November 2021 - 12 February 2022
Alongside the Vivian Maier retrospective at the Musée du Luxembourg, Les Douches la Galerie presents a new solo show from November 17, 2021 to February 5, 2022. Mostly unreleased, in color and black and white, the selected prints reflect her wanderings through the city, from the early 1950s in New...
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Hervé Guibert, Self Image
5 November 2021 - 12 February 2022
On the occasion of the thirtieth anniversary of Hervé Guibert's death, Les Douches la Galerie is presenting a new solo exhibition from November 17, 2021 to February 5, 2022. Through a selection of self-portraits, this exhibition seeks to reflect on his inner world and to explore autofiction in photography.
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Of Plants: Experimental Prints
Group show
4 September - 30 October 2021
From September 4 to October 30, 2021, the exhibition
Of Plants: Experimental Prints
brings together the crossed perspectives of Thierry Balanger, Sébastien Camboulive, Pascal Kern and Paul Pouvreau. Their organic compositions, whether imprints or factitious, lush or nebulous, attest to their singular place in French contemporary photography.
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Philippe Séclier, Valpo
4 September - 30 October 2021
Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to announce its first solo show by Philippe Séclier, from September 4 to October 30, 2021. A authentic travel diary,
Valpo
tracks his explorations of the Chilean port, over the years and in the footsteps of Sergio Larrain. Taken during several trips between 1998...
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Sabine Weiss, On dirait le Sud
7 - 31 July 2021
Alongside the major retrospective of Sabine Weiss presented at the Rencontres d'Arles, Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present a selection of southern and summer works. Through their streets and their inhabitants, Sabine Weiss portrays Arles, Avignon, Saintes Maries de la Mer, but also Naples or Athens. The exhibition...
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In Praise of the Hand
Group Show
11 March - 31 July 2021
Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present
L’éloge de la main
[
In Praise of the Hand
], a collective exhibition crossing various movements that investigates the motif of the hand in photography. This exhibition brings together fifty prints from the works of twenty-eight artists spanning the period from 1925 to...
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Roger Catherineau or Unrealism
Curator: Éric Rémy
11 March - 3 July 2021
From March 11 to July 3, 2021, Les Douches la Galerie presents
Roger Catherineau or Unrealism
, curated by Éric Rémy. Composed of over twenty vintage prints made between 1952 and 1961, this exhibition reflects his expressionist practice, his technical virtuosity and his great freedom of experimentation.
From May 26 to...
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Sabine Weiss, In the Sunshine of Life
28 November 2020 - 27 February 2021
When I had to choose a title for this exhibition, I wanted to highlight the character of Sabine Weiss. Sunshine, smile, energy, optimism, dedication... there is no lack of qualifiers. Temperament, too!
In the Sunshine of Life
soon became obvious because it summarizes quite well her appetence. As you will...
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Vivian Maier, Self portraits
28 November 2020 - 27 February 2021
Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present a new selection of self-portraits by Vivian Maier. Produced between 1953 and the 1970s, they once again demonstrate her eye for reflections, her great sense of composition and, more generally, the richness of her work.
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Sid Kaplan, New York Rhythm
24 September - 30 October 2020
We are very pleased to welcome to the gallery, with the complicity of Deborah Bell, Sid Kaplan?s first solo exhibition in France. This 82-year-old young man has never stopped wandering the streets of his New York City, the Lower East Side, where the misery is not picturesque. His photographs are...
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Ernst Haas, New York in Color
16 September - 30 October 2020
On the occasion of the publication of the book New York in Color, 1952-1962 by Prestel Publishing, Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present a selection of prints, to be discovered from September 13 to October 31, 2020.
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Ray K. Metzker, When hands weave the light
18 March - 19 September 2020
Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present
When hands weave the light
, our second exhibition dedicated to the work of Ray K. Metzker. Composed of some fifty prints taken from various series, this exhibition highlights his sustained interest in experimentation. A virtuoso of light and absolute master of his...
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Hervé Guibert, De l'intime
23 January - 14 March 2020
Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present De l'intime, its second exhibition dedicated to the work of Hervé Guibert, from January 24h to March 14th, 2020. After unveiling the museum insights in
The Palaces of Inviting Monsters
, this exhibition highlights a sensitive anthology of familiar objects, portraits of...
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The Things of Life
Group show
23 January - 14 March 2020
Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present the group show The Things of Life, featuring works by Marcel Arthaud, Pierre Boucher, René Jacques, Jean Moral, Roger Parry, Jean Roubier, André Steiner and René Zuber, with the complicity of Eric Remy. Artisans of the experimental New Vision in the 1930s, these...
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Christmas selection
Group show
1 - 24 December 2019
Les Douches la Galerie a le plaisir de vous présenter sa sélection de Noël 2019. Les tirages sont visibles sur demande à la galerie, du mercredi au samedi de 14h à 19h, ou sur rendez-vous.
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Paul Pouvreau, Litterally and Figuratively
14 November 2019 - 18 January 2020
We are very pleased to welcome Paul Pouvreau among the artists that Les Douches la Galerie represents. With his new work,
Les Invasives
[
Invasive
], Pouvreau continues his thirty-year project of hijacking household objects, those insignificant things that take over our modes of consumption. He overturns the codes of classical representation...
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Ernst Haas, Visionary Color
5 September - 9 November 2019
Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present its second exhibition of the singular works of Ernst Haas. The nearly forty prints that make up
Visionary Colour
, most of which have never been exhibited before, testify to the timelessness of his work. Taken between 1952 and 1981, the photographs presented...
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Staff picks
Group show
20 June - 27 July 2019
This summer, from 20 June through 27 July, Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present a selection of our favourite works by Berenice Abbott , Tom Arndt , John Baldessari , Jean-Christophe Béchet , Harry Callahan , Sébastien Camboulive , Stéphane Couturier , Marion Dubier-Clark , Aymeric Fouquez ,...
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La bascule du regard
Group show
13 April - 15 June 2019
It is with great pleasure that Les Douches la Galerie and Eric Rémy present La bascule du regard [The Turning Gaze], bringing together the works of Pierre Boucher, Jean Moral and André Steiner. Growing out of the Bauhaus, the artisans of the New Vision represent a generation of experimental photography...
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Sébastien Camboulive, Contiguity
13 April - 15 June 2019
Les Douches la Galerie is very pleased to present
Contiguïté
[
Continguity
], Sébastien Camboulive's latest solo exhibit, following on from his series
Spirales
[
Spirals
] in 2008,
Visages
[
Faces
] and
La limite pluie-neige
[
Neither Snow Nor Rain
] in 2013. Built round old magazine images,
Contiguïté
brings together twenty never-before-seen prints through a...
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Vivian Maier, The Color Work
19 January - 30 March 2019
Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present a new exhibition, dedicated to Vivian Maier's color work.
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Christmas selection
Group show
1 - 22 December 2018
Our Christmas selection will be on view at the Gallery from November 23 through December 22, 2018. An eclectic selection of images including works by Harry Callahan, Ernst Haas, Stéphane Couturier, Vivian Maier, Moï Ver, Marvin E. Newman, Weegee, Sabine Weiss, and a few anonymous prints! On this occasion, the...
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Aaron Siskind, L'épure photographique
27 October - 22 December 2018
Opening on Saturday, october 27th, from 2 to 7 pm Aaron Siskind (1903-1991)'s work cannot be reduced to a single photographic genre. Alongside his remarkable career as a teacher who put a stamp on several generations of photographers, this great figure in the history of American photography never ceased to...
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Hervé Guibert, In the Palaces of Inviting Monsters
6 September - 20 October 2018
Curators: Christine Guibert and Agathe Gaillard Opening on September 6 from 6 to 9 pm After presenting some of Hervé Guibert’s photographs in the collective exhibit
Autoportaits
[
Self-Portraits
] in 2014, we are pleased to dedicate a solo exhibit to him that brings together nearly sixty original prints. The exhibit is...
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Sabine Weiss, Fred Herzog: Mirror City
8 June - 28 July 2018
Sabine Weiss and Fred Herzog never tire of patiently, carefully strolling through cities. For it is urban landscapes, which they help us to see and feel, that best reflect their world, their obsessions, their commitments. Beginning this 20th June, the Centre Georges Pompidou will host an exhibit on Sabine Weiss,...
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Mervin E. Newman, Le goût de la modernité
8 March - 2 June 2018
Marvin E. Newman, the storyteller, Marvin E. Newman the inventor. Marvin E. Newman, the charmer. At the age of ninety, with a mischievous glint in his eye, Marvin E. Newman casually drops a thousand tales that tell the story of American photography from the end of the Second World War...
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Steve Rifkin, Au fil du temps
20 January - 3 March 2018
I first discovered Steven Rifkin's own photographs as I was perusing the collection of photographic prints that he has been assembling for over thirty years. Almost by chance, at his vast studio in Mount Vernon, in the suburbs of New York City, I came across a body of small, remarkable...
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Black Chicago
Group show
28 October 2017 - 13 January 2018
The seven photographers who are the subject of this exhibit – Wayne Miller, Ray K. Metzker, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Marvin E. Newman, Vivian Maier, Tom Arndt and Carlos Javier Ortiz – cover the period from 1940 to the present. None of them has followed the same path and none have the...
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Pascal Kern, L'éloge du paradoxe
12 September - 21 October 2017
We are pleased to announce
In praise of paradox
, the new solo show by Pascal Kern.
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Jean-Christophe Béchet, European Vintage
7 June - 29 July 2017
It is our great pleasure to be able to present Jean-Christophe's meanderings across Europe in a series of never-before-seen images. He dug deep into his personal archives and came up with original prints that he himself made, the sort of 'vintage' artist prints that collectors so dearly covet. This new collection contains...
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Ray K. Metzker, Abstractions
3 March - 27 May 2017
Ray K. Metzker holds a special place in the history of American photography. A fixture in the best-known institutions, his work, consisting exclusively of black and white images, is completely representative of an entire generation of profoundly experimental photographers. Born in 1931, Metzker was deeply influenced by his studies at...
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Arlene Gottfried, Bacalaitos and Fireworks
19 January - 25 February 2017
Arlene Gottfried's photographic work 'Bacalaitos and Fireworks' documents the Puerto Rican community of her native New York. For forty years, she was a frequent part of that community, which saw her beginnings in photography and which in some ways became a second family to her over the years. This work...
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Ezra Nahmad, Leave
19 January - 25 February 2017
Ezra Nahmad brings forward figures and narratives of exile, between immigration, exodus, cosmopolitanism and globalisation. The fragility and ferociousness of the sense of belonging, the visceral reactions against confinement, the desire to flee. This multiplicity of experiences within a circumscribed territory.
Leave
, is the final part of Ezra Nahmad's Israeli...
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Multiples et éditions
Group show
3 December 2016 - 14 January 2017
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Berenice Abbott, Vivian Maier : Une fantastique passion
8 October - 26 November 2016
What is the connection between these two utterly different women? Berenice Abbott sought out the light, while Vivian Maier hid amongst the shadows. One indefatigably knocked on every door in order to get her projects off the ground; the other criss-crossed the globe on her own. Beyond their particular predilections,...
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Carte blanche à l'artothèque de Vitré
Carte blanche à l'artothèque de Vitré
6 September - 1 October 2016
Exhibit curator
: Isabelle Tessier, director of the Vitré Artothèque. In partnership with the association Ville Ouverte, Les Douches la Galerie regularly gives a free hand to French artothèques [art libraries] to curate an exhibition at the gallery in order to pay tribute to the work done by the forty or...
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Le monde de Sabine Weiss
17 May - 30 July 2016
We are pleased to invite you to our very first solo exhibit dedicated to Sabine Weiss. It would indeed be presumptuous of us to claim to be presenting an exhaustive portrait of her work, which has continued to grow and expand since 1942. She takes on all genres without privileging...
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Sophal Neak, Nek Na ?
12 March - 27 April 2016
We are very pleased to present Sophal Neak's first ever individual exhibit in France. The work of this young, twenty-six-year-old Cambodian artist is a genuine favorite of ours that we discovered last year during Phnom Penh's Promenades Photographiques, which was begun and supported by Christian Caujolle. Neak's remarkably composed series...
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Arlene Gottfried, L'insouciance d'une époque
9 January - 5 March 2016
Humor, tenderness, intimacy, joy... there is no lack of words to sum up this portrait of New York in the 1970s and 80s. Life back then had no limits and seems light years away from what we have grown accustomed to today. This black and white fresco exudes the boundless...
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Ernst Haas, La couleur à toute épreuve
6 November - 23 December 2015
Living as we do in the digital age, it is difficult for us to imagine the number of photographers who found their calling after discovering the work of Ernst Haas. His publications and his retrospective at the MoMA in 1962 have influenced an entire generation. We?ve forgotten now, but colour...
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Chicago Eyes
Group show
16 October - 27 November 2015
This exhibit is part of
CHICAGO À PARIS
, organized by the Théâtre de la Ville, with the support of The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States and the University of Chicago. For the occasion, Les Douches La Galerie will host the sociologist and historian Henri Peretz...
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Homer Sykes, My Britain
5 September - 31 October 2015
The work of the British photographer Homer Sykes (born in 1949) remains largely unknown in France. It was at the beginning of the 1970s that this Canadian-born photographer became a photojournalist. He freelanced for various magazines and newspapers, such as The Observer, The Telegraph, Time and Newsweek, covering conflicts in...
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Pierre Schwartz, Aymeric Fouquez : L'obstination du paysage
20 June - 30 July 2015
Les Douches La Galerie has the pleasure of presenting 'The Persistence of Landscaping', an exhibit that brings together Aymeric Fouquez's series
North
and Pierre Schwarz's series
Goalposts
. Through images of military cemeteries of the First World War and football goalposts, respectively, the peculiar visions of these two photographers document the...
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New York
Group show
20 March - 13 June 2015
We are pleased to announce
New York
, a group show including Berenice Abbott, Tom Arndt, Arlene Gottfried, Ernst Haas, Helen Levitt, Vivian Maier, Ray Metzker, Louis Stettner, and Sabine Weiss. Through a wide bench of photographs, the exhibition captures the spirit of this most fascinating city, each image possessing its...
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Rodolf Hervé, On the Ground
20 January - 5 March 2015
Après avoir exposé ses Polaroids en 2008, nous avons le plaisir de présenter une deuxième exposition personnelle de Rodolf Hervé, regroupant des photographies prises à Budapest entre 1989 et 1994 ainsi qu’un montage de ses vidéos. Alors que la Hongrie s’engage dans des années de transition démocratique, une nouvelle sorte...
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Self-portraits
Group show
6 November 2014 - 10 January 2015
The Self-Portrait When a photographer shoots him/herself, s/he upsets a code of conduct, and the “shoot” morphs into a real challenge. This show of around 40 modern and contemporary prints reveals the photogenic power of this moment of truth. Berenice Abbott and Val Telberg preferred to use the photographic medium...
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Minnesota
13 September 2014 - 10 January 2015
We?re happy to introduce for the first time in France the photographer Tom Arndt. Born in Minneapolis, Tom Arndt?s photography focuses on his native Minnesota. Belonging to the grand, classic tradition of American documentary photography, Tom Arndt?s body of work offers us a sensitive, empathetic portrayal: a family album...
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Ezra Nahmad
22 May - 26 July 2014
'Officials and scholars from around the world offered diverse views of how the Chinese Dream concept championed by President Xi Jinping will benefit the country and the world at the International Dialogue on the Chinese Dream seminar in Shanghai on Saturday. »
(China Daily, December 8th, 2013) Chinesedream juxtaposes two...
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Alexis Cordesse, Rwanda
27 March - 17 May 2014
The genocide in Rwanda took place amid general indifference.
On April 6, 1994, President Juvénal Habyarimana was assassinated.
The authorities immediately put into practice their extermination plan, which sought to murder all opponents of their regime as well as the totality of Tutsis in Rwanda
(and the remaining political authority...
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Une balade à travers les procédés photographiques
15 January - 15 March 2014
We are thrilled to show for the second time the photography of Jean-Christophe Béchet. In 2012 we presented his series
“American Puzzle”
and now in 2014 we’re showing “Accidents”, photographic prints originating from his different series. They’re unintended images, taken by chance or resulting from technical flukes that the photographer...
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Vivian Maier
15 October - 21 December 2013
We are proud to present the first Vivian Maier solo show in Paris. Unknown in her lifetime, she leaves an outstanding body of work composed of more than 100,000 negatives and undeveloped roll films. Vivian Maier photographied tirelessly the streets of New York and Chicago in the 50s and 60s...
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Une question de point de vue
10 September - 12 October 2013
Some landscape photographs are uninspiring. Wathever is happening within the frame stems from this simple, descriptive aspect. Such objectivity and strict description tend to convey an indifference to the wonder of Nature. The photograph winds up depicting a dismal spectacle of natural desolation. Others recount the story of an organic...
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Bruce Wrighton, At Home
14 May - 22 June 2013
Seeing Bruce Wrighton Again!
Seeing Bruce Wrighton?s photography again is pure pleasure. Being in the midst of his photographs is a rare treat beyond words. These are strong reactions to an American I never knew. He died in 1988 at the age of 38, leaving behind him a powerful but...
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Sébastien Camboulive
15 March - 4 May 2013
Sébastien Camboulive aime jouer avec les ambiguïtés. Rien n’est plus lassant pour lui qu’un travail photographique qui se donne immédiatement. Ses images produites nous donnent toujours un sentiment paradoxal que l’on soit face à ses anciens travaux comme Spirale ou La Limite Pluie Neige ou face à ces nouvelles séries...
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André Mérian
19 January - 23 February 2013
We are pleased to invite you to the fourth show by André Mérian at the gallery. He has been thinking about the question of landscapes and the imprint that man has left on them since 1988. André Mérian finds his inspiration in borders, transitory frontiers, outlying areas : after the...
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Alaska Editions by Sebastien de Montabonel
29 November 2012 - 12 January 2013
Every December, we feature the work of unusual, off the beaten path publishers. Sébastien Montabonel and the Alaska Editions provide us with exceptional, meticulous publications prepared with exquisite artistry that showcase original artistic projects.?? We’re also showing our annual presentation of portfolios. Ville Ouverte editions continues to publish the work...
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Berenice Abbott & Raphaël Dallaporta
20 September - 22 November 2012
Since its beginnings in 1839, photography has been a rich, potential source of inspiration for scientists. We can see what’s invisible – from the infinitely teeny to the infinitely huge –because of it, at the beginning of the 20th century, the avant-garde grabbed this scientific iconography, reworked it and adapted...
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Carte blanche donnée à l'Artothèque de Caen
5 - 28 July 2012
En partenariat avec l'association Ville Ouverte, nous donnerons chaque été, une carte blanche à une artothèque afin qu’elle puisse présenter aux Parisiens une «toute petite partie» de leur collection. Nous voulons ainsi rendre hommage au travail réalisé par la quarantaine d'artothèques situées dans toute la France et qui jouent un...
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Ets. Giorgetti, Sculptures
15 May - 30 June 2012
Ets. Giorgetti, Sculptures
is the third show by Aymeric Fouquez at Douches la Galerie. His work on “anonymous sculptures”-- still situated in the North of France, his favorite territory--suggests a reflection on the sense that you can give to objects set here and there, in principle, without much consistency. To...
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Berenice Abbott
7 March - 4 May 2012
We’re happy to invite you to the show of
Changing New York
with a selection of prints of Berenice Abbott. During the entire - ten year period of the project - 1929 -1939 - Berenice Abbott produced the finest record ever made of an American City. Her point was graphically...
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Jean-Christophe Béchet
2 February - 5 April 2012
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...
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by Roland Angst
15 November - 23 December 2011
Les Douches la Galerie vous invite à (re)découvrir le travail de Roland Angst, directeur des Éditions Only Photography, et à vous faire partager sa passion pour la photographie. Deux ans après la publication de l'ouvrage de Frauke Eigen 'Shoku' (2009), Only Photography a publié quatre monographies: 'Automagic', un volume contenant...
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Portfolios #3
Group show
15 September - 29 October 2011
Dedicating an entire show to the presentation of portfolios has from here on in become a ritual at the Douches la Galerie. It’s a visual boost that we are particularly fond of. It permits the viewing of a particularly coherent body of images from the artist’s work at a given...
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Brigitt Ollier et Daniel Boudinet
21 June - 22 July 2011
Nouvelle proposition des Douches la Galerie, l’ouverture de son espace, au début de l’été, à des personnalités plurielles, dans le prolongement de sa programmation habituelle. Pour 2011, rendez-vous avec Brigitte Ollier et Daniel Boudinet, qui se rejoignent ici pour la première fois dans l’intimité de leurs images. Pari du petit...
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Body Shops
4 - 17 May 2011
Juraj Lipscher has explored in German Switzerland, for nearly ten years, a range of establishments devoted to the care of the body. Place where the human being is both present and totally absent. Clinics for cosmetic surgery, morgues and gyms, bomb shelters, beauty parlors and more recently, brothels. Body shops...
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Portraits et Abstractions
1 March - 22 April 2011
How do you recognize a portrait by the photographer, Arnold Newman? Check out the portrait's setting. You'll usually find Newman's subject with a characteristic object, an iconic accessory or a familiar pièce of furniture. You could call this Newman's trademark, his signature that has influenced generations of photographers. Newman himself...
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Bruce Wrighton
9 November 2010 - 10 January 2011
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Jérémie Lenoir
15 June - 3 July 2010
Cette exposition vous permettra de découvrir le travail aérien de Jérémie Lenoir sur des paysages de France transformés par l’occupation humaine et qui, confrontés à une nouvelle perspective, témoignent de notre emprise sur les sols, de notre mainmise sur la terre.
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Aymeric Fouquet
22 March - 29 May 2010
Après la série
NORD
, Aymeric Fouquez nous livre un nouveau témoignage sur la façon dont Histoire et Paysage sont étroitement liés. Cette nouvelle série réalisée au sud de Leipzig et au nord de Dresden, nous montre comment les pouvoirs économiques et politiques tentent d’effacer les traces d’un passé (un paysage...
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Thierry Girard
2 December 2009 - 6 January 2010
Une photographie, un livre… telle est la proposition de cette exposition pour (re)découvrir le travail photographique de Thierry Girard. Un observatoire du regard sur vingt cinq années consacrées au paysage rural et au paysage urbain.
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André Mérian
26 March - 29 May 2009
Le protocole ayant conduit à la réalisation de ‘Land‘ d’André Mérian tient en quelques mots: montrer aux Pays-Bas le moment ou la ville devient campagne. Derrière cette apparente simplicité de l’énoncé se cache en fait un projet d’une rare complexité. Sous jacent, pointe évidemment les enjeux liés au document, notion...
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Sébastien Camboulive
16 October - 20 December 2008
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Pierre Schwartz
12 June - 26 July 2008
A l’occasion de la sortie du livre Buts aux Editions Ville Ouverte et dans le cadre du Championnat d’Europe de Football 2008, nous présentons une sélection de photographies issues de ce travail. Il s’agit d’une série de photographies en noir et blanc de buts de football prises de façon systématique...
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Rodolf Hervé
10 April - 5 June 2008
Far from well known and having disappeared long before able to aspire to true recognition during his lifetime, Rudolf Hervé is one of those artists who, to paraphrase Bergson, belongs to the future. This series of Polaroids, taken between 1986 and 1993 is a veritable manifesto. Twisting, swelling, superimposing, scratching—all...
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Aymeric Fouquez
18 October - 14 December 2007
Les photographies ont été réalisées dans le Nord, la Somme et le Pas-de-Calais où se sont déroulés la plupart des affrontements lors de la première guerre mondiale. L’intérêt d'Aymeric Fouquez pour les cimetières érigés appartenant aux anciens pays belligérants s’est porté sur leur incursion dans la campagne française. Le photographe...
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Photographies de Georges Fessy
13 September - 10 October 2007
Ville Ouverte présente dans son espace d’exposition du 10 ème arrondissement une sélection, grand format, du travail photographique de Georges Fessy sur le patrimoine industriel, publié aux Editions Scala.
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Inauguration Les Douches
20 June - 27 July 2007
À l’occasion de l’inauguration de ses nouveaux locaux, Ville Ouvertepropose une exposition collective autour des photographies de : Luc Boegly, Déshérences Nocturnes / Tokyo_000 Olivier Nord, Bel Horizon André Mérian, Statement Deidi Von Schawen, Structures Éphémères
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