Les photographes invités / Master featured photographers

1. GEORGE GEORGIOU > 9 au 17 avril 2011 / ITALY

> Biographie / Biography

George Georgiou was born in 1961, photographed extensively in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey for the last decade, living and working in Serbia, Greece and for nearly five years in Istanbul. His work has focused on transition and identity and how people negotiate the space they find themselves in.

> Expositions / Exhibitions

> Prix / Awards

Two World Press Photo prizes in 2003 and 2005. The British Journal of Photography project prize 2010. Pictures of the Year International first prize for Istanbul Bombs in 2004. Nikon Press Award UK for photo essay 2000.

> Bibliographie / Bibliography

The Book "Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West" has been published by Filigranes editions, French . Postcart edizioni, Italian . Schilt publishing, English . Apeiron, Greek

> Liens / Links

Signatures in France : http://www.signatures-photographies.com

Prospekt in Italy : http://www.prospekt.it

Panos in UK : http://www.panos.co.uk

> Contact

http://www.georgegeorgiou.net

2. NAN GOLDIN / The ballad of my life > 17 au 25 avril 2010 / Italy

Photographe de la Galerie Yvon Lambert. Paris, France

> Biographie / Biography

Goldin was born in 1953 Washington, D.C., and grew up in an upper-middle-class Jewish family in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Lexington. She enrolled at the Satya Community School in Lincoln and start photography in 1968 at fifteen years old. Her first solo show, held in Boston in 1973, was based on her photographic journeys among the city's gay and transsexual communities, to which she had been introduced by her friend David Armstrong. Goldin graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University in 1977/1978, where she had worked mostly with Cibachrome prints.

Following graduation, Goldin moved to New York City. She began documenting the post-punk new-wave music scene, along with the city's vibrant, post-Stonewall gay subculture of the late 1970s until 1986s. She was drawn especially to the Bowery's hard-drug subculture; these photographs form her famous work (The Ballad of Sexual Dependency). These snapshot aesthetic images depict drug use, violent, aggressive couples and autobiographical moments. Most of her Ballad subjects were dead by the 1990s, lost either to drug overdose or AIDS; this tally included close friends and often-photographed subjects Greer Lankton and Cookie Mueller. The main themes of these early pictures are love, gender, domesticity, and sexuality; these frames are usually shot with available light. She has affectionately documented women looking in mirrors, girls in bathrooms and barrooms, drag queens, sexual acts, and the culture of obsession and dependency. The images are viewed like a private journal made public

Since 1995 she has included a wide array of subject matter: collaborative book projects with famed Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki; New York City skylines; uncanny landscapes her lover, Siobhan; and babies, parenthood and family life. Goldin's work is most often presented in the form of a slideshow; her most famous being a 45 minutes show in which 800 pictures are displayed.

In 2003, The New York Times nodded to the work's impact, explaining Goldin had "forged a genre, with photography as influential as any in the last twenty years." In addition to Ballad, she combined her Bowery pictures in two other series: "I'll Be Your Mirror" (from a song on The Velvet Underground's The Velvet Underground & Nico album) and "All By Myself."

Goldin lives in New York and Paris (one reason the French Pompidou Centre mounted a major retrospective of her work in 2002). Her hand was injured in a fall in 2002, and she currently retains less ability to turn it than in the past. In 2006, her exhibition, Chasing a Ghost, opened in New York. It was the first installation by her to include moving pictures, a fully narrative score, and voiceover, and included the disturbing three-screen slide and video presentation Sisters, Saints, & Sybils. The work involved her sister Barbara's suicide and how she coped through a numerous amount of images and narratives. Her works are developing more and more into cinemaesque features, exemplifying her graviation towards working with films.

> Expositions personnelles / Solo Exhibitions

1990 > 2007
New York, Boston, USA. Essen, Munich, Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg Germany. Leiden, Amsterdam Netherlands. Galerie du Jour, agnes b., (catalogue) , Galerie Urbi et Orbi , Yvon Lambert, Centre Georges Pompidou, La Chapelle de la Salpétrière, Fondation Cartier Paris, France. Stockholm, Goteborg Sweden. Geneva, Zurich Switzerland. Athens, Greece. Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue) . Barcelona, Spain. Tokyo, Japan. London, England. Reykjavik, Iceland. Torino, Italy. Montréal, Quebec, Canada (catalogue).
1985 > 1989
Boston, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, (catalogue) New York, Bloomington. Portland, Oregon. Boston. Chicago.Houston, Texas USA. Les Recontres d'Arles, Arles, France. Denmark. Sweden. Finland.
1973 > 1977
Cambridge, USA. Atlantic Gallery, (with David Armstrong), Boston, USA.

> Prix / Awards

> Bibliographie / Bibliography

> Liens / Links

Interviews & presentation of Nan Goldin's work

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z3sihEuiEk
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hh61liRjac&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xKDsrMH-Sg
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQuTYEF97Os&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Y0eEk8JVs&feature=related

Diaporamas

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQuTYEF97Os&feature=related
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4Y0eEk8JVs&feature=related

Articles

• http://fototapeta.art.pl/2003/ngie.php
• http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/13609/nan-goldin/
• http://www.helium.com/items/581015-artist-profile-nan-goldin

Contact

• http://www.yvon-lambert.com/nan_goldin-A21.html

3. ANDERS PETERSEN / A possible route of escape > 11 au 19 juillet 2009 / Paris

Photographe membre de l'agence VU

> Biographie / Biography

Anders Petersen est né en 1944 à Stockholm où il vit encore aujourd'hui. Au début des années 60 à 18 ans, un séjour à Hambourg lui ouvre une voie qui fera de la photographie son moyen d'expression. En 1966, il entre à la mythique Ecole de Photographie de Christer Strömholm, puis fonde en 1967 avec Kenneth Gustavsson un groupe qui produit dans les années 70, des reportages socialement engagés et critiques sur la société. Aujourd’hui, Anders Petersen est, à son tour, directeur d’atelier à l’école de photographie et de cinéma de Göteborg. Considéré comme l’héritier du “grand old man” de la photographie suédoise, il est sollicité dans le monde entier. Il expose régulièrement et presque chaque année depuis 1967. Il est présent dans des collections en Suède, Allemagne, Suisse, Danemark, France et aux Etats Unis.

Born in 1944 at Stockholm, Anders Petersen has been involved in Swedish photography since the late 60's. He is one of its central figures, and no one else has made a stronger impact on a younger generation. Yet, he hardly gives the impression of being a father figure. If anything, he is the eternal boy, travelling through an alien wonderland with its secret love encounters and bewildering adult conflicts. His pictures of the world out there somehow seem to be taken in a state of permanent amazement. His pictures are intimate, and yet they disclose no all too unpleasant details concerning the people involved. One of the secrets in Anders Petersen's photography is his indication of a possible route of escape, a kind of alternative movement through the city, which could lead to a different story.

> Prix / Awards

Il a reçu de nombreux prix et récomprenses depuis les années 70. Il a été élu "Photographe de l'année" aux Rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles en 2003.

He has received numerous grants and rewards since the seventies. In 2003 Anders Petersen was elected the “Photographer of the Year” by the International Photofestival in Arles.

> Bibliographie / Bibliography

Café Lehmitz, 1978
Fngelsen (prison), 1984
Karnevalen i Venedig, carnaval de Venise, 1991
Ragan till krleken, une maison de retraite 1991
Ingen har sett alt, un hôpital psychiatrique 1995
Anders Petersen Fotographier 1966 - 1996, livre rétrospective
Close distance, 2002 . Du mich Auch, 2002
Anders Petersen, Sète #08, 2008

> Liens / Links

http://www.anderspetersen.se

4. DENIS DAILLEUX / le portrait et son atmosphère > 14 au 22 juillet 2006 / Paris

Photographe de l'agence VU, représenté par la galerie Camera Obscura

Sa passion pour les gens, pour les autres, l’a naturellement amené à développer le portrait comme mode de figuration privilégié de ceux dont il avait l’envie, le désir d’approcher davantage ce qu’ils étaient. Naturellement et avec la délicatesse qui le caractérise il va installer dans le carré de son appareil des anonymes des quartiers populaires du Caire ou encore Catherine Deneuve et autre personnalités, avec cette même discrétion qui attend que l’autre lui donne ce qu’il espère, sans le revendiquer, en espérant que cela adviendra.

Alors, patiemment, il a construit un portrait inédit de la capitale de cette Egypte avec laquelle il entretient une relation amoureuse, voire passionnelle, pour mêler, entre des noirs et blancs au classicisme exemplaire et des couleurs à la subtilité rare, une alternative absolue à tous les clichés, culturels et touristiques, qui encombrent nos esprits.

Si l’Egypte reste, à l’heure actuelle, son grand oeuvre, le travail de portraits en noir et blanc qu’il a réalisé avec sa grand-tante, s’inscrira dans un questionnement de la notion même de portrait à la fin du XXe siècle. A sa manière discrète, Denis Dailleux est un photographe classique auquel on a terriblement envie de dire qu’on le remercie de son regard généreux et hors temps.

> Prix et bourses

• 2001 Prix FujiFilm, Festival "Terre d'Images" de Biarritz, pour le livre "Le Caire" (Editions du Chêne)
• 2000 Prix Hasselblad de la ville de Vevey/Suisse
  Prix World Press Photo à Amsterdam pour "les fêtes religieuses du Caire"
• 1997 Prix "Monographies" des Editions Filigranes pour son sujet "les quartiers populaires du Caire"
• 1996 Bourse du Fiacre du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication

> Expositions personnelles

• 2006 "Le Caire" Traders Pip gallery, Masstricht (Pays-Bas)
• 2003 "Le Caire" Atelier de Visu, Marseille "Le Caire" Institut Français de Barcelone (Espagne)
• 2002 "Le Caire" La Gambille, ODDC, Saint-Brieuc
• 2001 "Le Caire" Théâtre Agora - Evry "Le Caire" La Passerelle - Gap
• 1998 "Habibi Cairo, Le Caire mon Amour" FNAC Montparnasse - Paris
• 1995 "Ma Grande-Tante" FNAC Montparnasse - Paris
• 1994 "Enfants des banlieues" Galerie du Jour Agnès B. - Paris
• 1993 "Portrait Botanique" Nouveau Théâtre - Angers

> Expositions collectives

• 2006 "VU' par Robert Delpire" Galerie VU, Paris
• 2005 "Permutations on the Picturesque" Senior and Shopmaker, New-York (USA)
• 2004 "Nazar" (The arab world), the Noorderlicht Photo Festival (Pays-Bas) Collection Agnès B, Les Abattoirs, FRAC Midi-Pyrénées
• 1999 "La Traversée du siècle" Galerie Fait & Cause, Paris

> Editions

• 2000 "Le Caire" - Editions du Chêne
• 1997 "Habibi Cairo, Le Caire mon Amour" - Editions Filigranes

5. ANTOINE D'AGATA / Aux limites de l'acte photographique  > 1er au 9 avril 2006 / Italy

Photographe de l'agence Magnum

Antoine d'Agata est né en 1961 à Marseille. Il quitte la France en 1983 et, pendant dix ans, vit à l'étranger. En 1990, il s'initie à la photographie à l'ICP à New York, avec Joan Liftin, Charles Harbutt, Larry Clark, Nan Goldin. En 1991 et 1992, il travaille comme assistant au Bureau éditorial de l'agence Magnum à New York. En 1993, il revient en France où il cesse toute activité photographique jusqu'en 1996. En 1998, il publie son premier livre « De mala muerte ». Il est représenté par la Galerie VU de 1999 à 2003.

Il obtient le Prix Niépce, Paris, 2001. Il met un terme à son travail sur la nuit en 2003.

Il entre en 2004 chez Magnum.

Antoine d'Agata vit et travaille à Paris.

" La nuit, le sexe, l'errance,...et la nécessité de photographier, non comme un acte réfléchi, mais comme une simple mise à plat d'expériences ordinaires ou extrêmes. Une pratique photographique indissociable d'une certaine façon d'appréhender l'existence, où le risque, le désir, l'inconscience et le hasard restent les éléments essentiels. Aucune attitude morale, aucun jugement, simplement l'éthique de l'affirmation qu'il faut, pour explorer certains univers, les partager jusqu'au bout, sans précaution aucune. Un passage à l'acte photographique, aux limites de la disparition, de la jouissance et de la mort.  Antoine d'Agata, 2004

> Editions

Ses photographies on été publiées dans de nombreux magazines et livres :

• « La Ville sans Nom », Texte B. Le Dantec aux éditions Le Point du Jour Paris (en préparation)
• « Stigma » Texte P. Azoury. aux éditions Images en Manoeuvre Marseille, 2004
• « Insomnia » Texte C. Caujolle and B. Le Dantec aux éditions Images en Manoeuvre, Marseille, 2003
• « Vortex » Texte Christian Caujolle. aux éditions Atlantica Paris, 2003
• « Home Town » sans texte, aux éditions Le Point du Jour Editeur, Paris, 2002
• « Antoine d'Agata» Texte A. d'Agata. Centro de Estudios fotograficos, Vigo, Spain, 2001
• « Mala Noche» Texte B. Le Dantec and José Agustin, aux éditions En Vue, Nantes, France, 1998
• « De Mala Muerte » Texte Paco Ignacio, aux éditions Le Point du Jour Paris, 1998

> Expositions & collections & workshop

Son travail est présent dans de nombreuses collections : Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Forum für fotografie, Koln Allemagne, Collection photographique de la Fnac, etc.

Il expose régulièrement de la Santa Cecilia Gallery à Roma, au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Shanghai en Chine, au MuViM à Valencia en Espagne, à la Galerie Le bleu du ciel de Lyon et lors de manifestations comme Les Rencontres d'Arles ou encore Paris Photo 2005 au Carrousel du Louvre …

Il participe également à de nombreux workshops comme Toscana Photographic Workshop en Italie, Atelier de Visu à Marseille, Les rencontres d'Arles, en Suède, Brésil, Asie...

Born in 1961 in Marseille, Antoine D'Agata leaves France in 1983 and remains overseas for the following ten years. In 1990 an interest in photography leads him to follow courses at the ICP in New York, the same year as Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. An intern within the Editorial Department at the New York Magnum office from 1991 to 1992, he returns to France in 1993. Until 1996 he leaves photography aside. In 1998 his first book is published " De mala muerte ". Distributed by the Galerie VU from 1999 onwards, he goes on to publish his second book " Hometown " in 2001. That same year he is the recipient of the Niépce prize. In September 2003, his exhibition " 1001 Nuits " opens in Paris, accompanied by the publication of " Vortex " and " Insomnia ". In 2004 he joins Magnum Photos and the book " Stigma " comes out. Shooting of his first short feature film in video, " Ventre du Monde " in October 2004.

Antoine D'Agata is based in Paris.

The night, the sex, the wandering... and the need to photograph it all, not so much the perceived act but more like a simple exposure to common and even extreme experiences... It is an inseparable part of photographic practice, in a certain sense, to grasp at existence or risk, desire, the unconsciousness and chance, all of which continue to be essential elements. No moral posturing, no judgement, simply the principle of affirmation, necessary to explore certain universes, to go deep inside, without any care. A ride into photography to the vanishing point of orgasm and death. " Antoine d'Agata, 2004

> Liens / Links

• http://www.magnumphotos.com
• http://www.visavisphoto.com
• http://www.documentsdartistes.org

6. BRUCE GILDEN / In the face, in the street > 11 au 19 avril 2009 / Italy

Photographe membre de l'agence Magnum

> Biographie / Biography

Bruce Gilden was born in in 1946 Brooklyn, N.Y. and attended Penn State University where he became bored studying sociology. In 1968, after seeing the Antonioni film Blow Up, he bought his first camera. Though he took some night classes at the School of Visual Arts in New York he is basically self-taught in photography. When he was a child Gilden spent hours gazing through his bedroom window studying the activity on the street below. His fascination for street life continued and led him to his first long-term personal projects photographing in Coney Island and then to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

Gilden, who has done extended projects on New York, Haiti, France, Ireland, India and Japan, started exhibiting as early as 1971 and has since shown his work widely in museums and galleries all over the world. The strong dynamic forms and graphic quality of his images and his in-the-face theatrical style distinguish Gilden's original vision.

> Prix et bourses

Gilden has received numerous grants and awards for his work including three National Endowments for the Arts fellowships (1980, 1984 and 1992), a Villa Medicis Hors les Murs (1995), New York State Foundation for the Arts Grant (1979, 1992 and 2000), the European Award for Photography (1996) and a Japan Foundation Fellowship (1999).

> Bibliographie / Bibliography

Vis A Vis International Magazine #6 (Vis A Vis Editions, Paris 1990)
Facing New York, (Cornerhouse, 1992)
Vis A Vis International Magazine #12 (Vis A Vis Editions, Paris 1992)
Haiti, Photographs by Bruce Gilden,1996 (Dewi Lewis and Editions Marval, 1996)
Haiti Dreams and Nightmares, 1997
After The Off (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1999)
Go: Photographs of Tokyo and Osaka (Munkendals, 2000)
Coney Island Bruce Gilden (Trebruk, 2002)
New York City Bruce Gilden (Powerhouse, 2004)

> Liens / Links

• http://www.magnumphotos.com
• http://www.source.ie/artists/artistsG/artgilbru.html

7. ARNO MINKINNEN / Figures humaines au sein des forces de la nature
> 27 octobre au 4 novembre 2007 / Italy

> Chronology

• 1945 > Born, Helsinki, Finland
• 1951 > Emigrates with family to the United States.
• 1969 > Marries Sandra Jean Hughes of Dumont, New Jersey
• 1972 > First solo exhibition at Soho Photo Gallery. Reapplies successfully to Rhode Island School of Design. Teaching with Callahan is Aaron Siskind. Moves to Narragansett, Rhode Island. 1976
• 1978 > "Frostbite", first monograph is published by Morgan & Morgan. First American publication in Popular Photography Annual and Camera 35.
• 1979 > Daniel Hughes Minkkinen is born February 15. Begins series of self-portraits with son. Meets Duane Michals, Arthur Tress, and Peter Hujar.
• 1983 > Invited by Lucien Clergue to present work in "Fantastic Photography in Europe" at the Rencontres d'Arles. Conducts first workshop in Arles. Meets Nathalie Emprin, translator and assistant and future owner of a Gallery. Also philosophy professor Robert Pujade. Begins work with Polaroid 20 x 24 camera at Museum of Fine Arts Boston. "Father & Son", first showing of self-portraits with Daniel at the Robert Klein Gallery in Boston.
• 1984 > Invited back to teach in Finland at the Lahti Institute of Design and University of Art and Design Helsinki. Meets Viviane Esders who presents exhibitions in Paris and other French venues. Stays two years in Finland with Sandra and Daniel in Lahti, Finland.
• 1986 > Gives up bid to become Professor of Photography in Finland. Returns to America and resumes advertising career as Creative Director at Crosson, Wolf & Partners in Boston. Kimmo Koskela, a former Finnish student, begins filming biographical material on life and work.
• 1992 > Joins the University of Art and Design Helsinki as Docent in the Photography Department. Finnish government confers knighthood with the First Class Order of the Lion Medal. Begins self-portraits with women in Asikkala, Finland.
• 1994 > "Waterline", published in France (Marval), America (Aperture) and Finland (Otava) with an essay by Michel Tournier, is voted Book of the Year at the 25th Rencontres d'Arles. "Waterline" retrospective begins museum tour in Europe. Celebrates 25th wedding anniversary with Sandra on Nantucket Island.
• 1995 > First solo exhibition in New York (since 1972) at Houk Friedman Gallery. Begins working in the American southwest. Meets Radu Stern, director adjoint, École d'arts appliqués, Vevey, Switzerland. Begins teaching first year students in the photography program there.
• 1996 > "Still Not There" is screened at the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. Begins summer teaching at the Maine Photographic Workshops and the Toscana Photographic Workshops. Conducts "Spirit Level", a three week workshop with Timo Laaksonen for ten American, ten Finnish, and ten Swiss students through Finland, Eastern Europe and Switzerland.
• 1997 > "Body Land" is published by Federico Motta Editore in Milan. "Still Not There" is screened at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. Drives cross country to continue work in the American southwest.
• 1998 > Musta Taide in Helsinki publishes "ten minutes past midnight", a major exhibition at Gallen Kallela Museum, studio home of the Finnish painter. Show travels to the Mois de la Photo in Paris. "Body Land" is published by Editions Nathan in Paris. "Still Not There" receives silver key at Trebianka Solvice Film Festival; Geraldine Chaplin is the juror. Meets Valerio Tazzetti at Photo & Co. in Torino.
• 2000 to 2006 > Attends opening in Japan of "The Body as an Expression of the Subconscious" at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Continues teaching in Maine and Tuscany. Begins working with pinhole cameras.

> Prix / Awards

• 1994 > Grand Prix du Livre, 25th Rencontres d'Arles, France
• 1992 > Order of the Lion First Class, Heslinki, Finland
• 1991 > NEA, New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

> Expositions personnelles / Solo exhibitions

• 2000 > In the Spirit of the Masters, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, Finland . The Body as an Expression of the Subconscious, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
• 1996 > Reindeer in the Canyon, Galerie Nathalie Emprin, Paris, France
  Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Il Diaframma, Milano, Italy
  Waterline, Castello Fortezza, Montalcino, Italy ; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium ; Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark ; Sundsvall Museet, Sundsvall, Sweden ; Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland ;
  Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
• 1995 > Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
• Two Decades of Self-Portraits, Houk Friedman Gallery, New York, NY
• 1994 > Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Akehurst Gallery, London, England
• 1993 > Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Galerie du Château d'eau, Toulouse, France
• 1992 > Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Prague House of Photography, Prague, Czech Republic
• 1992 > Spirit Level, Images Center of Photography, Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1991 > Imatge Primordial, Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain
• 1990 > Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Peri Center of Photography, Turku, Finland
• 1988 > 15 Years in Front of My Camera, Galerie Viviane Esders, Paris, France.
  High Noon, Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, NY
• 1984 >Ten Years in Photography, Photographic Museum of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
• 1983 > Father & Son, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
• 1976 > Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Fotografiska at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1974 > Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Photographic Museum of Finland, Helsinki, Finland
• 1972 > Freemale, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY

> Collections

• Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
• Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
• Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
• Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
• Galerie Municipale de Chateau d'eau, Toulouse, France
• Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
• Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
• Fotografiska Museet at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
• Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
• Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
• Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
• The Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, Kansas
• Barry Friedman, New York

8. MICHAEL ACKERMAN /Pregnant visions > 12 au 20 juillet 2008 / Paris

Photographe de l'agence Vu - Paris

> Biographie / Biography

Michael Ackerman est né en 1967 à Tel-Aviv et vit entre New York et Cracovie. Membre de l’agence vu, il acquiert une reconnaissance internationale avec sa série sur Bénarès "End Time City" dont l’ouvrage édité par Nathan/Delpire lui permet de recevoir le prix Nadar du meilleur livre photo de l’année 1999. Sa première exposition individuelle a lieu à la galerie VU, suivent alors New York, Milano, Briesc,Madrid, Naples, Marseille, Berlin, Katowice, Havanna, Zurich ou encore Rotterdam. En 2001 son livre "Fiction" est paru à nouveau aux éditions Nathan/Delpire. Il participe à de nombreux stages en Italie, au Mexique, Etats-Unis, Norvège et Pologne.
Graduates university in 1990, goes back to NY and to India again, to work in Benares. After coming back to New York he meets the Coen brothers (film directors), with whom he starts a longterm friendship and artistic collaboration. In 1999 "End Time City" is published in France by Nathan/Delpire and worldly by Scalo. This book receives the Prix Nadar for best photobook of the year. First individual exhibition takes place at VU Gallery, as well as exhibitions in New York, Milano, Briesc, Madrid, Naples, Marseille, Berlin, Katowice, Havana, Zurich and Rotterdam. In 2001, his book "Fiction" is re-published by Nathan/Delpire. He gives lectures at workshops in Italy, Mexico, United-States, Norway and Poland.

> Prix / Awards

2001 Prix Nadar pour son livre "End Time City"
1998 Prix Infinity pour jeune photographe (Centre International de la photograhie)

> Bibliographie / Bibliography

• "Fiction" Texte de : Postface une conversation entre Gilou Le Gruiec, Christian Caujolle et Michael Ackerman
  Editeur : Nathan / Delpire (2001) . 160 pages . Taille : 27x20 cm
  
  "End time city" photographies de Michael Ackerman à Bénarès, en Inde.
  Texte de : Christian Caujolle et note d'Adam Cohen
  Editeur : Nathan / Delpire (1999 . 140 pages . Taille : 26,7x29,8 cm

> Liens / Links

http://www.agencevu.com/photographers/photographer.php?id=1