Harry Gruyaert (by) Brice Matthieussent.
André Frère| N° d'inventaire | 29813 |
| Format | 14 x 19 |
| Détails | 120 p., numerous color photographs, paperback. |
| Publication | Marseille, 2023 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782492696169 |
Collection: Just Between Us
For several decades, Harry Gruyaert has undoubtedly been the most famous colorist photographer. Born in Antwerp in 1941, a lifelong cinema enthusiast, he nevertheless made his career in photography, joining the Magnum agency in 1981. Brice Matthieussent, writer, critic, and translator, has been Harry Gruyaert's friend for almost forty years. Their complicity gives rise to exchanges mixing memorable memories—Belgium in black and white, then in color, the discovery of Morocco, India, the United States, Russia, Africa—surprising or moving anecdotes, humor and irony, admiration, and above all the traces of a fierce energy, a desire to discover new landscapes, different ways of life, and all the potential of this unexplored medium that was color photography some fifty years ago. Each chapter, devoted to a country or a photographic practice explored by Harry Gruyaert – fashion, industry, theatre, street scenes, landscapes, etc. – begins with the evocation of an iconic image of Gruyaert linked to this precise subject, before mixing the biography with fascinating reflections on the work of a lifetime and, of course, on the photography of this immense colorist.
Collection: Just Between Us
For several decades, Harry Gruyaert has undoubtedly been the most famous colorist photographer. Born in Antwerp in 1941, a lifelong cinema enthusiast, he nevertheless made his career in photography, joining the Magnum agency in 1981. Brice Matthieussent, writer, critic, and translator, has been Harry Gruyaert's friend for almost forty years. Their complicity gives rise to exchanges mixing memorable memories—Belgium in black and white, then in color, the discovery of Morocco, India, the United States, Russia, Africa—surprising or moving anecdotes, humor and irony, admiration, and above all the traces of a fierce energy, a desire to discover new landscapes, different ways of life, and all the potential of this unexplored medium that was color photography some fifty years ago. Each chapter, devoted to a country or a photographic practice explored by Harry Gruyaert – fashion, industry, theatre, street scenes, landscapes, etc. – begins with the evocation of an iconic image of Gruyaert linked to this precise subject, before mixing the biography with fascinating reflections on the work of a lifetime and, of course, on the photography of this immense colorist.