"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…

Est-il nécessaire de présenter Louis Stettner ? Ses photographies sont désormais des icônes et des symboles de la photographie contemporaine, des images qui ressentent à la fois de la photographie straight américaine et de la photographie européenne. Stettner découvre la photographie par ses protagonistes : Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Wegee et Brassaï. C’est ce dernier qui lui apprend qu’une vision personnelle peut transformer une chose ordinaire en quelque chose d’extraordina…