Last straight for the Rencontres d’Arles. This cult photography festival has taken place every summer since 1970 in the city’s emblematic heritage sites. Like all previous editions, forty exhibitions exhibiting ” an annual review of contemporary photographic creation How to find it? Don’t panic, we were there and prepared a small selection of our must-haves for you to discover until September 24th.
Lumières des Saintes, a photographic pilgrimage
We fell in love with this exhibition which brings together the shots of different photographers for ” retrace the history of the pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, where gypsies, Manouches, Roma and travelers from France and Europe meet every year “.
Extraordinary images spanning the centuries, to be admired inside the Chapel of the Museon Arlaten.
Saul Leiter, Blends
60 years of “minor fragments of an unfinished world” said the artist. This world is perhaps that of the New York turmoil. In any case, his photographs (accompanied by some paintings) show all the humor and poetry of the artist.
A beautiful enigma to (try to) decipher, within the walls of the imposing Palais de l’Archevêché.
Susanna house
The genesis of this exhibition is the story of a chance find: in 2004, two antique dealers discovered three hundred and forty photographs from the 1950s and 1960s in a flea market in New York.
Let’s find the men dress up (this is the term they chose) a the “respectable” housewife, the girl next door or the landlady », as told by the signage of the exhibition.
“Behind these photographs, in reality, there is a vast clandestine network of men in disguise. They are married, good fathers to white middle class America. They are engineers, airline pilots or civil servants in federal agencies. They embody the American dream. And his nightmare. Because the America of those years was also an America of racial, sexual or political segregation.
Susana house
It is estimated today that he was in fact the first” american transgender network “.
An essential piece of history, to be discovered at the Espace Van Gogh.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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