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RIVERS OCEAN, THE LANDSCAPE OF MISSISSIPPI’S COLORS

Chapelle Saint-Martin du Méjan, Arles, France

On my final day in Arles I went to see Nicolas Floc’h‘s marvelous exhibit. When I first entered the large space, I was somewhat disappointed. On the left-hand wall were several large, framed prints, each of a single colour. Opposite, on a diagonal partition bisecting the room was a grid of smaller framed prints with different colours in each column and each row showing a top-to-bottom darkening gradient of the image above it. These were all images taken in different spots and depths of the Mississippi. But, as you turn a corner, to view the other side of the partition and the other 2 walls of the space and a small, windowed alcove, you discover something much more interesting. There are large B&W prints of spots travelled to along the Mississippi and its many tributaries and feeder rivers with a tall stack of colour images showing the colours of light in the water at different depths at that location.

Transcendence

After the Musée Réattu I did finally find my way to Vague to see the Transcendence show.

Musée Réattu

Hunting for the Transcendence show at Vague, I came upon the Réattu Museum, its courtyard and windows on the river (Rhône). I came upon a well-known French photographer with whom I was not familiar, Jean-Claude Gautrand, who documented many important stories for the latter half of the 2oth century and into the 21st. Click on images below to see them larger.

Tower Steps

In the last post on La Tour I had been trying to see Joel Coen introduce his curation of Lee Friedlander’s photographs but the crowds were too big and I was turned away. I returned the next day to see the show without Joel and capture some more of the stark geometry of the place.

Lord of Things

Michel Medinger creates still life images from constructions of objects he has collected. Learn more about this show here.

Neither give nor throw away

Sophie Calle’s well known project, The Blind, was spoiled by flooding and subsequent mold. At Arles, she gave it all a final resting place, together with some other items of hers that she no longer wanted but wasn’t prepared to throw away. Read all about it here and see more below (click to enlarge).

Arles Reflections

École National Supérieure do la Photographie, Arles, France

La Tour

The heart of Luma is Gehry’s La Tour (the Tower). An interesting structure on the outside, it boasts more entertainments and interest on the inside. It was here that I saw Joel Coen’s curation of Lee Friedlander’s work. The images below are all interior shots (click on them to enlarge).

Love is Blind?

After seeing the powerful Mary Ellen Mark retrospective and Reflection: Japanese Photographers Facing the Cataclysm at the Espace van Gogh, I moved on to see some lenticular images by Mustapha Azerroual and Marjolaine Levy at the Cloître Saint-Trophime and, as is my wont, I photographed the space rather than the exhibit (see below).

Installation View

Installation view of my work in the UCA Grad Show, ending tomorrow.

National Museum

We visited the National Museum (of Art), Muzeum Narodowe. Once again I was more interested in photographing the spaces and the geometry than the art and artifacts. Click any of the images below to see them bigger.

Warsaw Rising

We visited a museum dedicated to the Warsaw Rising of 1944 (not to be confused with the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, when the segregated Jews revolted). In this case, as the Germans retreated westward and the Russians advanced from the East, the people of Warsaw rose up. As usual, rather than photograph the objects in the museum, I focused my camera on the space and, of course, found a reflection of myself to photograph as well.