Fleeting encounter, premeditated encounter: from snapshot capture to collaborative staging, the exhibition explores the relationship that forms, at the moment the photograph is taken, between the photographer and their subject. What does the image reveal about the respective position of these two bodies? About their complicity, their face-to-face, the silent pact sealed by one's gaze on the other's appearance?
The exhibition showcases iconic works and other, less well-known ones, from the 1920s to the present day, in a sensitive journey that favours echoes, affinities and cross-contaminations between the images.
"With, always at the centre of each photo, this small struggle of consciousnesses between who reveals and who unveils oneself, of which the photographic portrait has always been the privileged stage."
– Bertrand Schefer
With:
Lola Álvarez Bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Bill Brandt, Josef Breitenbach, Horace Bristol, Esther Bubley, Elinor Carucci, Mark Cohen, John Coplans, Gregory Crewdson, Imogen Cunningham, Bruce Davidson, Rineke Dijkstra, Walker Evans, Leonard Freed, Lee Friedlander, David Goldblatt, John Gutmann, Birney Imes, Graciela Iturbide, Sarah Jones, André Kertész, Chris Killip, Dorothea Lange, Sergio Larraín, Richard Learoyd, Danny Lyon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Roger Mayne, Susan Meiselas, Tina Modotti, Daidō Moriyama, Nicholas Nixon, Alexander Rodchenko, August Sander, Tomoko Sawada, Chris Shaw, Aaron Siskind, Graham Smith, Louis Stettner, Issei Suda, Yutaka Takanashi, Shoji Ueda, Weegee, Francesca Woodman.