Michel Frizot
Guest at Moviment
Michel Frizot, Emeritus Director of Research at CNRS - EHESS, is a historian and theorist of photography.
Michel Frizot teaches at Paris University 4, the Ecole du Louvre and EHESS.
The author of numerous works, exhibition curator, notably for André Kertész, Jeu de Paume, 2010; Germaine Krull, Jeu de Paume, 2015; Henri Cartier-Bresson, China 1948-49 – 1958, 2019, HCB Foundation Paris, and Gaston Paris, Centre Pompidou, 2022, he also works for the recognition of aspects excluded from canonical history, in particular the popular uses of photography (Identités, 1986), amateur photography (Photo trouvée, Phaidon, 2006), or press photography (VU, le magazine photographique, 1928-1940, La Martinière, 2009).
Perception of photographs also forms a focus of his research, with Toute photographie fait énigme (2014), or more recently L’Homme photographique (Hazan, 2018), a collection of texts on the specifics of the photo image and its interpretation.
© Photo : Centre Pompidou/Florian Ebner
Treasure revealed:
Brassaï’s contact sheets
Photography Meeting
The photographer Brassaï (1899–1984) – a familiar man-about-town in the streets of Paris, associate of denizens of the night, friend of the artists of the day, keen searcher for graffiti – left behind a superb body of work, as evidenced by his archive of thousands of contact sheets. Taken initially with a large-format camera and later on using a medium-format device, the images were printed, cut out and then pasted onto cardboard sheets.
Such complete and beautiful photographic archives are rare indeed. Not intended for distribution as artistic works, these panels are displayed and annotated as archives for the first time, as part of Moviment.
Friday, 5 May 2023
