"The city exists as a mass and is scattered in seeds, in gramen, but what raises and rouses these seeds, touches them, makes them spin, is the luminous palpitation of the beings who walk through it, these are the paths themselves". Jean-Christophe Bailly Each of the works in the exhibition "Urban Spirit" is like one of the seeds mentioned by Jean-Christophe Bailly: receptacles of germinating potential, urban experiences of ready to bloom. Through t…

Curated by Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Drive-In is an exhibition about cars, showing the approach of this subject by numerous photographers, from the fifties to nowadays. When Elliott Erwitt, during and after the depression era, photographed those rolling dreams with his candid sense of humor and irony, cars, especially the very large and imposing ones, were already a landmark in the American landscape. In the early fifties, when Swiss photographer Robert Frank, thanks to a Guggenhei…

Arthur Tress (USA, *1940) Born in 1940 in Brooklyn, Arthur Tress grew up near Luna Park in Coney Island and started photographing in the streets. Quickly, his images revealed a strangeness which he called himself “magical realism”: the appearance of the fantastic in a common world, as it would first seem. A girl catching goldfish in front of the Chateau de Breteuil, a boy with hands made of roots, or a man-silhouette emerging through smoke, ... although these photos-fictions use…

La Galerie Esther Woerdehoff propose, du 30 janvier au 10 mars 2007, l'exposition collective Bestiarium. Elle met en premier plan la créativité et les rêveries des photographes contemporains sur le monde animal. C'est un panorama insolite et surprenant. Protagonistes sont, bien sûr, les animaux: pris dans leur environnement naturel, vus comme des jouets ou comme partie essentielle dans les cérémonies humaines. À l'interprétation donnée par les photographes représentés par la galerie…