ARLES 2023 LES RENCONTRES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE : The photo festival celebrates photography greats this year such as SAUL LEITER and GREGORY CREWDSON
We’re looking forward to the bustling opening week of the Rencontres d’Arles 2023. Where thrilling exhibitions, keynotes, and book signings attract photography fans from all corners of the globe once again, like each year in July, to this small village in southern France.
Renowned book publishers, such as Kehrer, are presenting their visual highlights of the year in pop-up book shops under the roof of the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation, only a short distance from the Place du Forum and from Place de la République…
“We particularly recommend the exhibition ‘Saul Leiter: Assemblages at the Palais de l’Archevêché’ because we plan on publishing a new, comprehensive survey of his life’s work this fall to honor the great photographer’s 100th birthday.” says the Kehrer Publishing team. Saul Leiter – The Great Retrospective is the official and comprehensive publication celebrating the 100th birthday of one of the greatest and most famous photographers of the 20th century. Curated in cooperation with the Saul Leiter Foundation, this ambitious book, full of never before seen works, spans Leiter’s complete oeuvre.
And also in Arles – Kering and the Rencontres d’Arles are honoring Rosangela Rennó with the fifth ‘Women in Motion’ award for photography.
Our personal highlight: Echoing the Gregory Crewdson exhibition ‘Eveningside’ presented this summer to mark the publication of the same name (Publisher: Skira Paris) at La Mécanique Générale in Arles, the performance GREGORY CREWDSON FEAT. STUART BOGIE, with photos and live music, offers a unique exploration into Gregory Crewdson’s work, set to original music by James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) and multi-instrumentalist/composer Stuart Bogie. Over the past thirty years, Gregory Crewdson has created a meditative portrait of America with his photos. His photographs evoke fragments of a twilight world, combining an autobiographical dimension with the fragility of ordinary lives in search of transcendence.
“When James Murphy and I discussed a collaboration, and the idea of him providing a score for the ‘Eveningside’ series, he came back to me with two pieces of music he created with Stuart Bogie. They’re nearly identical in length, just under 20 minutes each, and very closely related, but have very distinct emotional and tonal qualities. One is entitled ‘Eveningside’ and the other ‘Morningside’, the first to accompany the behind-the-scenes meditation ‘Making Eveningside’, and the other to accompany an exploration of the details of some of the images from the series. Above is just that – image details set to ‘Morningside’. I hope you will watch full screen on a decent monitor with good sound and fully take it in. Enjoy.” Gregory Crewdson
This year, the key visual is from Finnish photographer Emma Sarpaniemi,who is based in Europe. In her practice, she investigates definitions of femininity through collaborative and performative self-portraits. She playfully dives into the relationship she has with the models she works with, to explore intimacy and companionship. Sarpaniemi has presented her work at The Finnish Museum of Photography, The Finnish Institute in Stockholm and Melkweg Art Gallery in Amsterdam.
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