Past
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Ernst Haas
The Forces of Abstraction 23 November 2024 - 25 January 2025 Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present a new exhibition dedicated to Ernst Haas (1921–1986). Featuring around twenty color photographs, primarily taken in New York, the exhibition unveils the most personal and poetic project of the American photographer, centered on abstraction. This remarkable series coincides with the release of... Read more -
Val Telberg
Un surréaliste américain à Paris 12 September - 10 November 2024 The year 2024 marks the centenary of one of the most captivating and influential artistic movements of the 20th century: Surrealism. A hundred years ago, André Breton published the iconic Surrealist Manifesto. To commemorate this anniversary, the Centre Pompidou is hosting a major exhibition, Le Surréalisme d’abord et toujours, and... Read more -
Revolving Doors
Sept tapisseries de Man Ray 12 September - 10 November 2024 Revolving Doors is a series of works created by Man Ray early in his career in the United States around 1916-1917, before he moved to Paris in 1921 and became a central figure in the Dada and Surrealist movements. This series accompanied Man Ray throughout his long career: initially created... Read more -
Le Temps irrémédiable
Jean-Claude Gautrand (1932-2019) 30 May - 13 July 2024 After a first exhibition of the series L’Assassinat de Baltard in 2023, Les Douches la Galerie invites you to discover French photographer Jean-Claude Gautrand's (1932-2019) early experiments from the 1960s with a selection of vintage prints from his iconic series: Métalopolis (1964), Les Filets (1966), Gazoville (1966), La mort du... Read more
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Made in USA
Vivian Maier (1926-2009) | Sabine Weiss (1924-2021) 11 April - 25 May 2024 One of them, Sabine Weiss, was born in 1924. The other one, Vivian Maier, was born in 1926. Both chose the street as their field of action and had a deep empathy for the passers-by they photographed. One of them, Sabine Weiss, was born in Switzerland but became a naturalized... Read more -
Thomas Boivin
Ici - Belleville, Ménilmontant, Place de la République 17 February - 6 April 2024 Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present Thomas Boivin's new exhibition, Ici -Belleville, Ménilmontant, Place de la République, from February 17 to April 6, 2024. Since 2010, Thomas Boivin has been pursuing his photographic work in the northeast of Paris, wandering around his home, strolling the streets, always... Read more -
Homage to Marvin E. Newman (1927-2023)
17 February - 6 April 2024 Marvin E. Newman, who passed away on September 13, 2023, photographed everything from street photography to advertising and sports commissions, nightlife and fashion. Les Douches la Galerie, which had the pleasure of presenting his first solo show in France, in 2018, wanted to pay tribute to him, a few months... Read more -
I want to see art
Homage to Christian Bouqueret (1950 - 2013) 1 December 2023 - 10 February 2024 Françoise Morin and Les Douches la Galerie are pleased to invite you to the opening of the new collective exhibition, 'I want to see art', curated by Eric Rémy, on Thursday, November 30th, beginning at 6 p.m. This exhibition is a vibrant tribute to Christian Bouqueret (1950-2013), historian, gallery owner,... Read more
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Cabinet de curiosités de Noël
30 November - 22 December 2023 Les Douches la galerie vous propose, du 30 novembre au 22 décembre, une sélection de dix-neuf images dans son Cabinet de curiosités spécial Noël. Des tirages originaux, et même des tirages uniques, en noir et blanc comme en couleur, pour des prix qui varient de 900 à 2 000 euros.... Read more -
Roger Ballen, Enigma
22 September - 25 November 2023 CURATORS : FRANÇOISE MORIN ET PHILIPPE SÉCLIER Les Douches la Galerie is pleased to present, for the first time this Fall, a solo show by Roger Ballen, including his early series from the 80s and 90s.The South African photographer has been exploring the twists and turns of his subconscious for... Read more -
The Shapes of Water
Group show 10 June - 9 September 2023 Featuring works by: Berenice Abbott, Pierre Boucher, Roger Catherineau, Harold Edgerton, Emeric Feher, Jean-Claude Gautrand, Joseph Jachna, Pierre Jamet, Sid Kaplan, Peter Keetman, André Kertész, François Kollar, Bogdan Konopka, Rainer Leitzgen, Dora Maar, Daniel Masclet, Ray K. Metzker, Elfriede Stegemeyer, André Steiner, Claude Tolmer, Raoul Ubac, Willy Zielke and René... Read more -
New York by Frank Horvat
10 June - 9 September 2023 Between 1982 and 1986, Frank Horvat visited and photographed New York several times. Les Douches la Galerie is proud to mount the first gallery exhibition of this series in colour that helped the French photographer move beyond the bounds of his own style. Read more
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Philippe Séclier
Valpo 10 June - 9 September 2023 CABINET OF CURIOSITIES _ Between 1995 and 2000, Philippe Séclier photographed a hundred and so ports around the world. The magic of those mythical ports, captured in an expressionistic style, soon appeared in Séclier’s first work, Hotel Puerto, whose publication is partially indebted to the good word of the travel... Read more -
Thomas Boivin
Walks 25 April - 27 May 2023 Cabinet of curiosities _ In the summer of 2021 we rented a small house near the Claise, a tributary of the Creuse, in the south of the Indre-et-Loire. At the foot of the house, the river was navigable for a hundred meters or more. The landscape, at this place, is... Read more -
Romain Urhausen
A Subjective Consciousness 7 April - 27 May 2023 Les Douches la galerie is pleased to present the work of Romain Urhausen (1930-2021), through a selection of some forty vintage prints, representative of his experimental approach. Read more -
Jean-Claude Gautrand
Baltard’s Murder 7 April - 27 May 2023 Les Douches la galerie is pleased to present, for the first time, fifteen prints from the famous photographic series taken in 1971 by Jean-Claude Gautrand: Baltard’s Murder. Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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,... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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. Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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. Read more -
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... Read more
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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. Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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. Read more -
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... Read more
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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. Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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. Read more -
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... Read more -
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 ,... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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. Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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,... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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. Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
Multiples et éditions
Group show 3 December 2016 - 14 January 2017 Read more -
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,... Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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Bruce Wrighton
9 November 2010 - 10 January 2011 Read more -
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. Read more -
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... Read more -
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. Read more
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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... Read more -
Sébastien Camboulive
16 October - 20 December 2008 Read more -
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... Read more -
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... Read more
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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... Read more -
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. Read more -
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 Read more
