As an observatory for photographic creativity and technique, Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles has over the years become an unmissable event for lovers of the eighth art. As a little taster, here are a couple of artists featured in this 48th edition.
“The more we think about countries that are closed off, downtrodden and plunged deep into political and economic crises, the more present photographers are. They reveal, narrate, witness, invent, repair and reconstruct using their own language, that of pictures. They decode the warning signs of societies undergoing profound change…”, writes Sam Stourdzé, artistic director of the festival.
True to its history, the 48th festival of Rencontres d’Arles opens the photographic floor to a multitude of different viewpoints. A reflection of this approach is the choice of a photograph by Karlheinz Weinberger as the festival’s poster. Weinberger, the Swiss photographer who died in 2006, remains relatively unknown to the wider public. This new spotlight will bring his work out of the darkroom, especially his raw avant-garde snapshots of the Swiss youth revolt in the ‘60s.
Les Rencontres d’Arles (previously know as Rencontres internationales de la photographie d’Arles) was founded in 1970 by the Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, author Michel Tournier and historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette. Through the originality and the eclecticism of its selection, the festival earned a top-class reputation. Guided by insatiable curiosity, Les Rencontres has helped numerous photographers win over their audience and, in equal measure, has brought to light new photographic perspectives for spectators.
Classic compositions, baroque, delicate or lyrical, there are no boundaries to ring-fence a festival that has become one of the most important in the world.
From the 3rd-24th September, this Provençal town transforms into a modern-day confluence of visual creativity. Connect with the Rencontres through 40 exhibitions set within a gentille old city dating back over 2500 years.
https://www.rencontres-arles.com
Translation : Paul MCKeen
Untitled
© Karlheinz Weinberger, 1958,
courtesy Galerie Esther Woerdehoff
Untitled, from The Most Perfect Day series, Berlin, 2016.
Courtesy of the artist.
Architecture of Density, 2005-2009.
Courtesy of the artist.
The Real Toy Story, 2004.
Courtesy of the artist.
Grace Kelly. No one would have thought Grace Kelly would die in a car accident along the same road she’d taken, almost thirty years earlier, in To Catch a Thief. Yet, on her way to Paris with her daughter, Stéphanie, her car drove off a curve in the road, crashing into the parking lot of a house 40 meters below. Stéphanie was barely injured; Grace died the next day.
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Helmut Newton. When Helmut Newton’s Cadillac left the famous Château Marmont in Los Angeles it was 11:40 on a Friday night. The car just missed running over a passing photographer from the Associated Press before crashing into a wall in front of the hotel on Sunset Boulevard. Helmut Newton died a few hours later at a nearby hospital. He was 83 years old, and could have been ill.
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Anthropometric notebook.
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Vitrines, 2008.
Courtesy of the artist.
Sans titre
Avec le soutien du Centre des monuments nationaux.
Gideon Mendel
The home of John Jackson, Toll Bar Village near Doncaster, UK, June 2007, from the Floodlines series.
Courtesy of the artist.
Jeff and Tracey Waters, Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey, UK, February 2014, from the Submerged portraits series. Courtesy of the artist.
Movie Theater Booth, Times Square, New York City, 1963.
Courtesy of the artist and Howard Greenberg Gallery.
Camel Coat Couple in Street Steam, New York City, 1975.
Courtesy of the artist and Howard Greenberg Gallery.
Day of an offensive. War with the Islamic State in Syrte, 2016. Courtesy of Samuel Gratacap/Les filles du calvaire gallery
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Detention center for migrants from Zaouia, 2014. Courtesy of Samuel Gratacap/Les filles du calvaire gallery
Vence, 1959.
Courtesy of the Archives of the Fondation Dubuffet, Paris/ photographie John Craven.<
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Juego de las Probabilidades, 2007.
Courtesy of the artist and Mor Charpentier Gallery, Paris.
Korzhin, 3 June 2016. The village wants to sell this statue for 15’000 USD in order to repair the local kindergarten and the school. The price is a bit high and the local mechanic who’s in charge of selling the statue expects to get no more than 3’000 USD from selling the scrap metal.
Courtesy of Niels Ackermann/Lundi13.
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Giovanni, Arles, 2015.
Courtesy of the Éric Dupont gallery
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Untitled, from the Wild Grass series, 2006. Courtesy of Gallois Montbrun & Fabiani.
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Memories of Father.
Courtesy of Masahisa Fukase Archives.
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Quito, 1994.
Courtesy of the artist. Copyright:Rencontres Arles
Typologies, Évry, 2014.
Courtesy of the artist.
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Marilyn Monroe & Celine Liu, from the Celine Liu series, 2014.
Courtesy of the artist.
