85 research outputs found
âLe Portrait Daguerrien en AmĂ©riqueâ/âThe Daguerreian Portrait in Americaâ (14 Sept â 1 Dec 2013)
The exhibition âLe Portrait daguerrien en AmĂ©rique/The Daguerreian Portrait in Americaâ took place in Bry-sur-Marne at the Daguerre Mansion and in Lagny-sur-Marne. The exhibition was coâcurated by Professor François Brunet (University of ParisâDiderot), Wm. B. Becker (Director of the American Museum of Photography) and Margaret Calvarin (Museum Director of the City of BryâsurâMarne). The portion of the exhibition in LagnyâsurâMarne was under the direction of CeÌline Cotty. This interview to..
Interview with Joel Meyerowitz on the occasion of âJoel Meyerowitz. A Retrospectiveâ
GĂ©raldine Chouard: Thank you, Joel Meyerowitz, for granting us this interview on the occasion of the exhibition of your work in Paris at the Maison EuropĂ©enne de la Photographie. The first picture of the exhibit, of a woman diving into the water, literally makes the visitor take the plunge into flux (cloud of bubbles) and color (swimming-pool blue); itâs almost as if we get splashed watching it. Why did you choose to exhibit this picture upside down? Joel Meyerowitz: I was making an installat..
Rosa Parks @ 100
Cornell University associate professor RichĂ© Richardson, a native of Montgomery, Alabama, gave a talk at the Rosa Parks Museum in the city on February 4, 2013 entitled âRosa Parks @100â as part of the national celebration from Montgomery to Detroit. Her art quilt, âRosa Parks, Whose âNoâ in 1955 Launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Was Heard Around the World,â is among the art that was presented at this historic celebration. Other highlights included National Book Award poet Nikky Finney r..
Rosa Parks @ 100
Cornell University associate professor RichĂ© Richardson, a native of Montgomery, Alabama, gave a talk at the Rosa Parks Museum in the city on February 4, 2013 entitled âRosa Parks @100â as part of the national celebration from Montgomery to Detroit. Her art quilt, âRosa Parks, Whose âNoâ in 1955 Launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Was Heard Around the World,â is among the art that was presented at this historic celebration. Other highlights included National Book Award poet Nikky Finney r..
âLe Portrait Daguerrien en AmĂ©riqueâ/âThe Daguerreian Portrait in Americaâ (14 Sept â 1 Dec 2013)
The exhibition âLe Portrait daguerrien en AmĂ©rique/The Daguerreian Portrait in Americaâ took place in Bry-sur-Marne at the Daguerre Mansion and in Lagny-sur-Marne. The exhibition was coâcurated by Professor François Brunet (University of ParisâDiderot), Wm. B. Becker (Director of the American Museum of Photography) and Margaret Calvarin (Museum Director of the City of BryâsurâMarne). The portion of the exhibition in LagnyâsurâMarne was under the direction of CeÌline Cotty. This interview to..
Review of Richard Bausch, Hello to the Cannibals
Richard Bausch is credited with five collections of short stories and nine novels that have received various awards in the United States. His latest work, Hello to the Cannibals, blends a historical epic and a more intimate tale. Watch outâthis is a voracious novel. Other CarnageAn ethnologist investigating cannibalistic rites in Africa asks the head of the tribe : « Do you still have cannibals in your tribe ? » « No, we ate the last one yesterday, » answers the head of the tribe. Undoubtedly..
Eggleston : la ville à l'épreuve de la démocratie
The proof of democracy is in the city. This article analyses the representation of cities as seen by contemporary American photographer Eggleston, whose work is here approached in terms of four defining characteristics: signaletics, eccentricity, kineticity, and dialogality. The aim of this study is to define the link between these urban images and the concept of "democracy", a term applied by Eggleston himself to his 1989 album, The Democratic Forest
A Weltian Rhapsody: Paul Strand, âBlindâ (1917) and Eudora Welty, âBlind Weaver on the WPA, Oktibbeha County, 1930sâ
There are few photographs of blind people in the repertoire of American photography. One of the most famous is âBlindâ (1917) by Paul Strand (which is part of the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York). It is a photograph of a blind woman taken on the street in New York City. This woman is a beggar. Around her neck just below a pin bearing her license number, she is wearing a placard spelling out her blindness, which allows her to beg: this was the Progressive Era..
Eudora Welty de A Ă Z : LâAmĂ©rique Ă la lettre
AbĂ©cĂ©daire cybernĂ©tique et interactif, « Eudora Welty : lâAmĂ©rique Ă la lettre » revient Ă lâalphabet, matiĂšre premiĂšre des mots, pour rendre hommage Ă une femme de lettres qui a donnĂ© Ă lâAmĂ©rique une Ćuvre dâune Ă©blouissante densitĂ© po(ĂŻ)Ă©tique. De lettre en lettre, des perspectives transversales ont ainsi Ă©tĂ© ouvertes pour lâexploration de thĂšmes, figures et motifs librement articulĂ©s, selon un mode fragmentaire et pluriel. Loin de recouvrir lâĆuvre weltienne, ce patchwork critique sâĂ©labore ainsi autour dâun principe de contiguĂŻtĂ©, sur le mode de la connexion ou du rĂ©seau, et invite Ă une lecture Ă plusieurs entrĂ©es, dans tous les sens, en toute licence
André Bleikasten. Philip Roth. Les ruses de la fiction.
On connaissait la prose riche et nuancĂ©e de Bleikasten sur Faulkner, lâauteur auquel il a consacrĂ© (une large part de) sa vie universitaire : dans la critique amĂ©ricaine contemporaine, son Parcours compte sans doute parmi les plus beaux. On dĂ©couvre maintenant, avec cet ouvrage sur Roth, une plume sensible aux effets dâune autre Ă©criture : trempĂ©e Ă lâencre de la complicitĂ© (et non plus de la mĂ©lancolie), elle dessine les contours dâune Ćuvre tout Ă la fois joueuse et sĂ©rieuse, dâune verve in..
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