Pierre de Fenoÿl: an imaginary geography.
| N° d'inventaire | 19634 |
| Format | 25 x 28.5 |
| Détails | 230 p, B/W illustrations, hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
Pierre de Fenoÿl (1945-1987) devoted his life to photography. He was successively a reporter, archivist, curator, gallery owner, art buyer and founder of the Vu agency (later Viva), before becoming in 1975 the first director of the Fondation Nationale de la Photographie and, in 1978, the first advisor for photography at the Centre Pompidou. Guided by an irresistible passion, he worked very actively for the recognition of photography by institutions in the 1970s and 1980s and exhibited major photographers such as Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Duane Michals, Edouard Boubat, Tony Ray-Jones and André Kertész, before becoming interested in 19th-century photography. But Pierre de Fenoÿl is also the author of a significant photographic body of work. His personal research first took him to India in the footsteps of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then, after receiving a grant from the Villa Medicis hors les murs, which allowed him to undertake a trip to Egypt in the footsteps of Maxime du Camp and Félix Teynard, he decided to devote himself entirely to photography and, in 1984, settled in the Southwest to devote himself to the observation of landscapes. The photographer revealed himself to be haunted by the question of time and memory in photography and defined himself as a "chronophotographer." Sometimes linked to the "creative photography" of his time, his work is more akin to a search for the sacred, inspired by the theater of nature and the art of walking. His landscapes, imbued with a silent mystery, sometimes evoke Flemish or Italian painted landscapes, as much as the masters of primitive photography. In 1984, he participated in the major mission organized by DATAR to assess the state of the French landscape. He died suddenly in 1987, without having had time to print or show a large part of his images.
Pierre de Fenoÿl (1945-1987) devoted his life to photography. He was successively a reporter, archivist, curator, gallery owner, art buyer and founder of the Vu agency (later Viva), before becoming in 1975 the first director of the Fondation Nationale de la Photographie and, in 1978, the first advisor for photography at the Centre Pompidou. Guided by an irresistible passion, he worked very actively for the recognition of photography by institutions in the 1970s and 1980s and exhibited major photographers such as Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Duane Michals, Edouard Boubat, Tony Ray-Jones and André Kertész, before becoming interested in 19th-century photography. But Pierre de Fenoÿl is also the author of a significant photographic body of work. His personal research first took him to India in the footsteps of Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then, after receiving a grant from the Villa Medicis hors les murs, which allowed him to undertake a trip to Egypt in the footsteps of Maxime du Camp and Félix Teynard, he decided to devote himself entirely to photography and, in 1984, settled in the Southwest to devote himself to the observation of landscapes. The photographer revealed himself to be haunted by the question of time and memory in photography and defined himself as a "chronophotographer." Sometimes linked to the "creative photography" of his time, his work is more akin to a search for the sacred, inspired by the theater of nature and the art of walking. His landscapes, imbued with a silent mystery, sometimes evoke Flemish or Italian painted landscapes, as much as the masters of primitive photography. In 1984, he participated in the major mission organized by DATAR to assess the state of the French landscape. He died suddenly in 1987, without having had time to print or show a large part of his images.