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Objectif : monuments (Objective: Monuments)
1984
In 1984, the Direction du Patrimoine du ministère de la Culture (Ministry of Culture, Heritage Directorate) solicited seven photographers to carry out assignments in cooperation with the Directions régionales des affaires culturelles (DRAC) (Regional Directorates of Cultural Affairs) in Alsace, Guyenne, Aquitaine, Provence, Île-de-France, the Lyonnais, and Paris. The purpose of this project was to demonstrate a broadening of the concept of protected heritage from a contemporary artistic point of view.
Photographers
Publication
- « Objectif : monuments », novembre 1984, numéro hors-série de Photographies, revue éditée par l’Association française pour la diffusion de la photographie ; directeur de la publication : Pierre Barbin ; rédacteur en chef : Jean- François Chevrier.
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Mission photographique de la DATAR (DATAR Photographic Mission)
1984-1988
The Comité interministériel d'aménagement du territoire (Interministerial Committee on Spatial Planning) of 18 April 1983 constitutes the founding act of the Mission photographique de la DATAR [Délégation à l'Aménagement du territoire et à l'Action régionale (Spatial Planning and Regional Action Delegation)]. Among the decisions made, article 3–7 provides for the funding of a project "Photographie de la France de 1983" ("Photographs of the France of 1983"), on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the creation of the DATAR. Launched officially in January 1984 and initially for just one year, this photographic mission brought together for the first time some 15 photographers under the direction of Bernard Latarjet, at the time General Secretary of the Fonds interministériel de développement et d'aménagement rural (Interministerial Fund for Rural Development and Planning) managed by the DATAR, and François Hers, photographer.
It continued its activity until 1988, in partnership with various governmental agencies and private firms. National in scope, the mission constitutes a model for cultural action aimed at affirming the artistic dimension of photography and of renewing the representation of the territory. Indeed, the 29 photographers participating in it are given the assignment of "recreating a culture of the landscape."
The collections of proofs and contact sheets are deposited at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.Photographers
- Dominique Auerbacher
- Lewis Baltz
- Gabriele Basilico
- Bernard Birsinger
- Alain Ceccaroli
- Marc Deneyer
- Raymond Depardon
- Despatin et Gobeli
- Robert Doisneau
- Tom Drahos
- Philippe Dufour
- Gilbert Fastenaekens
- Pierre de Fenoÿl
- Jean-Louis Garnell
- Albert Giordan
- Frank Gohlke
- Yves Guillot
- Werner Hannappel
- François Hers
- Josef Koudelka
- Suzanne Lafont
- Christian Meynen
- Christian Milovanoff
- Vincent Monthiers
- Richard Pare
- Hervé Rabot
- Sophie Ristelhueber
- Holger Trülzsch
Website
Publications
- Bulletin de la Mission photographique de la DATAR, supplément de la revue Photographies, nos 1 et 2, Paris, 1984.
- Mission photographique de la DATAR (éd.), Paysages, photographies, travaux en cours, 1984-1985, Paris, Hazan, 1985, 517 p.
- Mission photographique de la DATAR (éd.), Paysages, photographies. En France, les années quatre-vingt, Paris, Hazan, 1989, 683 p.
Audiovisusal Documents
- Territoires photographiques, a series of twelve short films produced by the INA and FR3 with the participation of the DATAR and the Ministry of Culture :
- Gabriele Basilico. Le littoral, réalisation Olivier Guiton (8 min 37, 1985).
- Raymond Depardon. Fermes familiales, réalisation Frédéric Compain (9 min 05, 1985).
- Despatin et Gobeli. Portraits de Français, réalisation Didier Deleskiewicz (8 min 29, 1985).
- Robert Doisneau. La banlieue parisienne, réalisation Gilles Delavaud (9 min 37, 1985).
- Tom Drahos. Villes nouvelles, réalisation Olivier Guiton (8 min 37, 1985).
- Gilbert Fastenaekens. Paysages industriels, réalisation Frédéric Compain (8 min 37, 1985).
- Pierre de Fenoÿl, réalisation Didier Deleskiewicz (8 min 12, 1985).
- Albert Giordan. Les centres commerciaux, réalisation Olivier Guiton (8 min 47, 1985). François Hers. Paris, réalisation Gilles Delavaud (8 min 38, 1985).
- Christian Milovanoff. Les bureaux, réalisation Didier Deleskiewicz. (7 min 49, 1985).
- Sophie Ristelhueber. Paysages vus du train, réalisation Gilles Delavaud (9 min 56, 1985).
- Holger Trülzsch. La forêt de Marseille, réalisation Frédéric Compain (8 min 34, 1985).
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Mission du Conservatoire du littoral (Mission of the Coastal Protection Agency)
Since 1985
In 1985, the Mission du Conservatoire du littoral initiated its first four photography campaigns in partnership with the DATAR Photographic Mission. Since 1991, it has been commissioning photographers to report on its efforts to preserve natural coastal areas. The collection, which includes some 1000 original prints, received support from the Fondation Gaz de France and from various public and private partners. Line Lavesque (of the association À travers le paysage) is artistic director.
Photographers
- Jane Evelyn Atwood
- Jean-Christophe Ballot
- John Batho
- Frédéric Bellay
- Alain Ceccaroli
- Thibaut Cuisset
- Luc Choquer
- John Davies
- Sabine Delcour
- Marc Deneyer
- Raymond Depardon
- Éric Dessert
- Gilbert Fastenaekens
- Marcel Fortini
- Jérôme Galland
- Thierry Girard
- Harry Gruyaert
- Werner Hannappel
- Michael Kenna
- Bogdan Konopka
- Josef Koudelka
- Suzanne Lafont
- Dolorès Marat
- Olivier Mériel
- Vincent Monthiers
- Anna Papoulias
- Bernard Plossu
- Édith Roux
- François Sagnes
- Jacqueline Salmon
- Frédéric Schwalek
- Michel Séméniako
- Magdi Senadji
- Aldo Soares
- Françoise Stijepovic
- Joachim Vallet
- Olivier Verley
- Massimo Vitali
Website
Publications
- Figures du littoral, vol. 1, Paris, Marval, 1994, 319 p.
- Figures du littoral, vol. 2, Paris, Marval, 1995, 287 p.
- Atwood Jane Evelyn, Papoulias Anna, Stijepovic Françoise, Sur le sentier des cabanes. Domaine du Vigueirat, Camargue, Conservatoire du littoral, 2000, 44 p.
- Ballot Jean-Christophe, Abbaye de Beauport, Paris, Marval, 1995, 88 p.
- Batho John, Éléments. Les rochers de Ploumanac'h, Paris, Marval, 1992, [72 p.].
- Bellay Frédéric, Tatihou, petite île fortifiée au large de Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue sur la côte est du Cotentin, Paris, Marval, 1991, [54 p.].
- Ceccaroli Alain, Cicatrices. Les sites du débarquement, Paris, Marval, 1991, [36 p.].
- Ceccaroli Alain, Mériel Olivier, Monthiers Vincent, Littoral. L'hiver, Trézélan, Filigranes, coll. « Visa », 1, 2001, 61 p.
- Choquer Luc, L'Archipel des Sept-Îles, Paris, Marval, 1995, 112 p.
- Cuisset Thibaut, Les Bouches de Bonifacio, Paris, Marval, 1995, 236 p.
- Davies John, Littoral. Le retour de la nature, Trézélan, Filigranes, coll. « Visa », 3, 2001, 61 p.
- Delcour Sabine, Littoral. Delta de la Leyre. Bassin d'Arcachon, Trézélan, Filigranes, 2007, 65 p.
- Deneyer Marc, Littoral. Rivages de Charentes, Trézélan, Filigranes, 2008, 46 p.
- Depardon Raymond, Littoral. Piétinements, parcours. La Pointe du Raz, Trézélan, Filigranes, coll. « Visa », 5, 2002, 61 p.
- Depardon Raymond, Pointe du Raz, Paris, Marval, 1991, [104 p.].
- Dessert Éric, Littoral. Parc national de Port-Cros, Trézélan, Filigranes, 2008, 64 p.
- Fastenaekens Gilbert, Les Îles du Salut, s. l., 1995, 264 p.
- Fortini Marcel, Littoral. Pointe du Cap Corse, Trézélan, Filigranes, coll. « Visa », 6, 2006, 61 p.
- Fortini Marcel, Cap Corse, Capandula, Paris, Marval, 1994, 288 p.
- Galland Jérôme, Baie d'Audierne, Paris, Marval, 1995, 114 p.
- Girard Thierry, Brouage, Paris, Marval, 1993, [128 p.].
- Konopka Bogdan, L'Île Dumet, Paris, Marval, 1995, 160 p.
- Koudelka Josef, Camargue, Arles, Acte Sud, 2006, non pag.
- Marat Dolorès, Paris-Normandie, s. l., 1995, 40 p.
- Mériel Olivier, Baie du Mont-Saint-Michel, Paris, Marval, 1995, 64 p.
- Monthiers Vincent, Le Cap Ferret, Paris, Marval, 1993, [152 p.].
- Plossu Bernard, L'Archipel de Riou, texte d'Alain Reinaudo, Paris, Marval, 1992, [204 p.].
- Plossu Bernard, Littoral des lacs. Annecy, Bourget, Léman, Marseille, Images en manœuvres Éditions, 2008, 98 p.
- Sagnes François, Le Jardin du Rayol, Paris, Marval, 1992, [230 p.].
- Salmon Jacqueline, La Rade d'Hyères, île et presqu'île, Paris, Marval, 1995, 212 p.
- Schwalek Frédéric, Le Marquenterre, Paris, Marval, 1994, 16 p.
- Séméniako Michel, Domaine d'Abadia, Paris, Marval, 1995, 184 p.
- Senadji Magdi, Le Cabanon Le Corbusier, Paris, Marval, 1994, 256 p.
- Soares Aldo, Gardes du littoral, Paris, Conservatoire du littoral, 1998, [160 p.].
- Vallet Joachim, Les Orpellières, Paris, Marval, 1994, 178 p.
- Verley Olivier, Côte d'Opale, le site des caps, Paris, Marval, 1995, 16 p.
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Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire de Belfort (The Four Seasons of the Territory of Belfort)
1987-1991
Between 1987 and 1991, at the initiative of Alain Buttard of the Centre d'action culturelle de Belfort (Belfort Cultural Action Center), twelve photographers participated in the mission of Les Quatres Saisons du Territoire de Belfort, in turn part of a larger project, "Les 101 communes de l'art" ("101 Art Municipalities"). The latter includes both the sculptural heritage, whose photographic inventory was prepared by Bernard Birsinger, and contemporary painting, with the commissioning of original prints.
The photographic mission set up a revolving schedule with each photographer invited to return to work on the same territory at a different season each year. The photography collection is preserved by the General Council of the Territory of Belfort.
Photographers
Publications
- Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire. L’été 1987, Belfort, Granit CAC, 1988, 139 p.
- Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire. Le printemps 1988, Belfort, Granit CAC, 1989, 141 p.
- Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire. L’hiver 1989, Belfort, Éditions de l’Est, 1991, 157 p.
- Les Quatre Saisons du Territoire. L’automne 1990, Belfort, Éditions de l’Est, 1991, 157 p.
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Mission photographique transmanche (Cross Channel Photographic Mission)
1988-2005
The Centre régional de la photographie (CRP) (Regional Photography Center) of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, under the direction of its founder, Pierre Devin, sponsored the Cross Channel Photographic Mission from 1988 to 2005. This involved providing images of the transformations occasioned by the "construction project of the century," that of the Channel Tunnel, launched jointly by French and British authorities in January 1986. The CRP also documented the project's impact on the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France and commissioned 26 photographers. More than 400 of their prints are preserved by the organization.
Photographers
- Lewis Baltz
- Olivo Barbieri
- Tim Brennan
- Marilyn Bridges
- Christian Courrèges
- John Davies
- Claude Dityvon
- Fabiana Figueiredo
- Jean-Louis Garnell
- Bruce Gilden
- Jean-Pierre Gilson
- Ralph Hinterkeuser
- Bernard Joseph
- Michel Kempf
- Josef Koudelka
- Max Lerouge
- Philippe Lesage
- Daniel Michiels
- Françoise Nuñez
- Martin Parr
- Bernard Plossu
- Wojciech Prazmowski
- Michael Scheffer
- Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt
- Jacques Vilet
- Wolfgang Zurborn
Website
Publications
The Cross Channel Photographic Mission, along with the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Regional Photography Center, published 27 booklets featuring the work of the photographers. The first eight of these documents have been published by Éditions de la Différence.
- Gilson Jean-Pierre, « Rivages », Cahier 27, 2006, 34 p.
- Figueiredo Fabiana, « Migrances », Cahier 26, 2005, 34 p.
- Hinterkeuser Ralph, « Lille métropole », Cahier 25, 2001, 34 p.
- Bernard Joseph, « Des visages », Cahier 24, 1998, 34 p.
- Courrèges Christian, « Capitale Europe », Cahier 23, 1998, 34 p.
- Zurborn Wolfgang, « Au centre de la vitesse », Cahier 22, 1996, 40 p.
- Bridges Marilyn, « Vue d’oiseau », Cahier 21, 1995, 80 p.
- Scheffer Michael, « Das Land. Lille », Cahier 20, 1995, 64 p.
- Lerouge Max, « Euralille, le chantier », Cahier 19, 1995, 52 p.
- Michiels Daniel, « Thiérache », Cahier 18, 1995, 50 p.
- Vanden Eeckhoudt Michel, « Sur la ligne », Cahier 17, 1994, 64 p.
- Prazmowski Wojciech, « L’ange brisé », Cahier 16, 1994, 58 p.
- Lesage Philippe, « Espaces portuaires », Cahier 15, 1994, 15 p.
- Nuñez Françoise, « Ports », Cahier 14, 1994, 44 p.
- Gilden Bruce, « Bleus », Cahier 13, 1994, 44 p.
- Barbieri Olivo, « Frontière franco-belge », Cahier 12, 1993, 36 p.
- Brennan Tim, « Fortress Europe, nos 11 à 42 », Cahier 11, 1992, 48 p.
- Plossu Bernard et Bailly Jean-Christophe, « Route nationale 1 », Cahier 10, 1992, 64 p.
- Baltz Lewis, « Ronde de nuit », Cahier 9, 1992, 28 p.
- Vilet Jacques, « Escaut. Source. Océan », Cahier 8, 1991, 76 p.
- Dityvon Claude, « Canal du Nord », Cahier 7, 1990, 48 p.
- Koudelka Josef, « Josef Koudelka », Cahier 6, 1989, 34 p.
- Parr Martin, « One day trip », Cahier 5, 1989, 40 p.
- Garnell Jean-Louis, « Chantier de percement du tunnel sous la Manche », Cahier 4, 1989, 40 p.
- Lesage Philippe, « Chantier du Lien fixe transmanche. Terminal, février-mars 1988 », Cahier 3, 1989, 40 p.
- Davies John, Durand Régis et Kempf Michel, « Autoroute A 26. Calais-Reims », Cahier 2, 1989, 66 p.
- Plossu Bernard et Butor Michel, « Paris-Londres-Paris », Cahier 1, 1988, 40 p.
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Bureau audiovisuel du ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche
(Audiovisual Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fishing)1988-1999
Between 1988 and 1999, the Bureau audiovisual du ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche commissioned photographs of French and European rural areas under the coordination of Éric Perrot. The project, initiated in 1988 and entitled Europe rurale: Regards hors des villes (Rural Europe: Looking Outside of Cities), brought together 17 photographers for five years, leading to an exhibition and a book in 1994. That same year, the project D'est en ouest. Chemins de terre et d'Europe (From East to West, Dirt Roads of Europe) was also presented, bringing together the work of six photographers.
Subsequently, projects take the form of individual, long-term research —such as that of Anne Testut, who, from 1991 to 1995, worked on European eating habits —or of short-term artistic commissions. These commissioning activities ceased in 2000. The collections are preserved at the Ministry of Agriculture's photothèque.
Photographers
- Jean-Christophe Ballot
- Nick et Marie Ellen Brokensha
- Luc Choquer
- Dominique Cros
- Carl De Keyzer
- Patrizia Di Fiore
- Stéphane Duroy
- Fouad Elkoury
- Jean-Pierre Favreau
- Anne-Marie Filaire
- Antoine de Givenchy
- Guy Hersant
- Paul den Hollander
- Didier Hubert
- Graciela Iturbide
- Yvon Lambert
- Xavier Lambours
- Bernard Molins
- Marie-Paule Nègre
- Paulo Nozolino
- Louise Oligny
- Gilles Peress
- Françoise Saur
- Klavdij Sluban
- Anthony Suau
- Anne Testut
- Laure Vasconi
- Martine Voyeux
- Roger Wagner
Publications
- D’est en ouest. Chemins de terre et d’Europe, Trézélan, Filigranes, 1994, 8 p.
- Europe rurale 1994. Regards hors des villes, Trézélan, Filigranes, 1994, 17 p.
- Balot Jean-Christophe, L'Eau grande. Le paysage dans les basses vallées angevines et la vallée de la Loire, Grane, Créaphis, 2001, 103 p.
- Brokensha Nick et Marie Ellen, Le Voyage en Mayenne, Trézélan, Filigranes, 1998, 64 p.
- Cros Dominique, D'Aubrac en Lot, Trézélan, Filigranes, 1997, 57 p.
- Hersant Guy, Champs. Agriculture dans l'Aisne, Trézélan, Filigranes, 1999, 92 p.
- Lambours Xavier, Gueule de bois. Portraits d'arbres, Trézélan, Filigranes, 1997, 71 p.
- Saur Françoise, Massif central, territoires intérieurs, La Tour-d'Aigues, Éditions de l'Aube, 2000, 78 p.
- Testut Anne, Europe à table, Trézélan, Filigranes, 1995, 18 p.
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Trwa Kartié
1990-1994
Initially entitled "Entre mythologies et pratiques" ("Between Mythology and Practice,") this was a government-commissioned project undertaken as part of an urban social development program on Reunion Island, on the sites of Piton Saint-Leu, Rivière des Galets, and Trois-Bassins, between 1990 and 1994. The purpose of this mission, initiated in 1989 by three photographers, the BKL group, was to "make authentic creative work socially relevant" with the collaboration of sociologist Michel Anselme, and then Jean-Paul Curnier.
In this context, the authors' work developed according to a thematic approach, was connected to actions carried out with the inhabitants, and involved feedback throughout and training programs in the practice of photography. Beyond its artistic dimension, the project sought to develop exchanges between planning experts and the inhabitants through mediation.
Photographers
- Jean Bernard
- Karl Kugel
- Bernard Lesaing
Publication
- Bernard Jean, Kugel Karl et Lesaing Bernard, Trwa Kartié. Entre mythologies et pratiques, île de la Réunion, 1990-1994, Paris, Éditions de La Martinière, 1994, 448 p.
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Observatoire photographique national du paysage
(National Photographic Observatory of the Landscape)Since 1991
Initiated by the Environment Ministry's Mission paysage (Landscape Mission, subsequently the Landscape Office) and following a communication of the Council of Ministers of 22 November 1989, the Observatoire photographique had as its purpose to commission photographers in cooperation with local partners responsible for protection, spatial planning, and management policies. Photographers, experts, and other involved parties, working in concert on the territory, determine an itinerary of some forty points of view that will be re-photographed regularly to monitor the transformation of the landscape over time. This itinerary concretizes the encounter between a territorial project conducted by a public agency project manager and the artistic project of the photographer.
During 1990s, the Observatoire photographique was under national governance involving the ministry, a steering committee, and a council of experts. Presently, the photographic routes benefit from decentralized management: the regional directorates of the Ministry in charge of the Environment provide the interface between local partners and the Landscape Office at the central level.Currently, there are twenty itineraries on the French territory: 01 – Parc naturel régional du Pilat ; 02 – Département de l’Hérault ; 03 – Plateau de l’Arbois ; 04 – Région du Nord-Pas-de-Calais ; 05 – Département des Côtes-d’Armor ; 06 – Canton de Saint-Benoît-du-Sault ; 07 – Environs de Valence ; 08 – Département des Hauts-de-Seine ; 09 – Ville de Montreuil ; 10 – Vallée des Duyes et de la Bléone ; 11 – Parc naturel régional des Vosges du Nord ; 12 – Parc naturel régional du Livradois-Forez ; 13 – Parc naturel régional de la Haute Vallée de Chevreuse ; 14 – Parc naturel régional de la Forêt d’Orient ; 15 – Friches industrielles de Lorraine ; 16 – Parc naturel régional d’Armorique ; 17 – Picardie maritime ; 18 – Banlieue de Paris ; 19 – Île de la Réunion ; 20 – La Martinique.
The campaigns of retaking photographs at the same site can be carried out by the initial photographer, by another photographer on the basis of a new commission, or managed within a local supporting structure. The 21 photographers mentioned here (in the order of the itineraries) are those who took the first shots on these routes.Photographers
- Sophie Ristelhueber (01)
- Raymond Depardon (02)
- Alain Ceccaroli (03)
- Dominique Auerbacher (04)
- Thibaut Cuisset (05)
- John Davies (06)
- Gérard Dufresne (07)
- Jean-Marc Tingaud (08)
- Anne Favret et Patrick Manez (09)
- Gilbert Fastenaekens (10)
- Thierry Girard (11)
- Anne-Marie Filaire (12)
- Gérard Dalla Santa (13)
- Jacques Vilet (14)
- Claude Philippot (15)
- Jean-Christophe Ballot (16)
- Fred Boucher (17)
- Alain Blondel et Laurent Sully-Jaulmes (18)
- François-Louis Athénas (19)
- Jean-Baptiste Barret, Pascal Joachim, Aline Ravenet, Henri Salomon, Jean-Luc Vuillet (20)
Websites
- https://terra.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/observatoire-photo-paysage/home/
- http://carmen.carmencarto.fr/index.php?map=opp.map&service_idx=53W
National publications
- Itinéraires croisés, actes des rencontres de l’Observatoire photographique du paysage, les 24 et 25 septembre 1999 à Rochefort, organisées par le ministère de l’Aménagement du territoire et de l’Environnement, la ville de Rochefort et la Région Poitou-Charentes, septembre 2000, 133 p.
- Méthode de l’Observatoire photographique du paysage, ministère de l’Écologie, de l’Énergie, du Développement durable et de l’Aménagement du territoire, 2008, 71 p. [en ligne].
- L’Observation photographique au service des politiques du paysage, acte du colloque européen des 13 et 14 novembre 2008, ministère de l’Écologie, de l’Énergie, du Développement durable et de la Mer, 2009, 196 p. [en ligne].
- Transformations, actes de la journée d’échange du 21 juin 2016 relative aux 25 ans de la démarche « Observatoires photographiques du paysage », ministère de l’Environnement, de l’Énergie et de la Mer, 2016, 66 p. [vidéos en ligne].
- Mollie-Stefulesco Caroline (dir.), Séquences / Paysage. Revue de l’Observatoire photographique du paysage, nº 1, Paris, Ministère de l’Environnement / Hazan, 1997, 112 p.
- Mollie-Stefulesco Caroline (dir.), Séquences / Paysage. Revue de l’Observatoire photographique du paysage, nº 2, Paris, Ministère de l’Environnement / Hazan, 2000, 112 p.
- Quesney Daniel, Stefulesco Caroline et Ristelhueber-Guilloteau Véronique, L’Observatoire photographique du paysage, Paris, Ministère de l’Environnement / Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, 1994, 36 p.
- À paraître aux Éditions Parenthèses en novembre 2017 : un ouvrage sur le sujet de Jac Fol, Frédérique Mocquet et Daniel Quesney, sous la coordination du bureau des paysages du ministère chargé de l’Environnement.
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Centre méditerranéen de la photographie (Mediterranean Center of Photography)
Since 1994
Created in 1990 by José Cesarini and Marcel Fortini, the Centre méditerranéen de la photographie is an association governed by the French law of 1901, and subsidized by the Corsican authorities. As of 1994, Marcel Fortini initiated a photographic commissioning program to showcase the territory of Corsica in its various economic, political, historical, cultural, and social aspects. Between 1994 and 2014, he commissioned 26 photographers whose works are preserved in the Center's collection. From 1998 to 2003, a photographic mission on the greater Bastia area was entrusted to ten photographers to undertake a memory work on the neighborhoods affected by the city's urban planning policy.
Another photographic mission entitled "Escales de mémoire" ("Memory Stop-overs") took place from 2007 to 2011 in the context of a public procurement contract awarded by the city of Bastia. It brought together the creative work of six photographers on the southern neighborhoods of the city, then part of an urban renewal program that included the construction of a cultural center, Alb'oru. A new photographic mission is scheduled for 2018.
Photographers
1994-2014- Jane Evelyn Atwood
- Roberto Battistini
- Jean-François Baumard
- Valérie Belin
- Nadia Benchallal
- Antonio Biasiucci
- Stéphane Couturier
- Thibaut Cuisset
- Bruno Debon
- Suzanne Doppelt
- Stéphane Duroy
- Alain Fleischer
- Joan Fontcuberta
- Jellel Gasteli
- Mimmo Jodice
- Jean-François Joly
- Dolorès Marat
- André Mérian
- Walter Niedermayr
- Paulo Nozolino
- Albano Silva Pereira
- Marie-Eva Poggi
- Jens Rötzsch
- Georges Rousse
- Laurent Van der Stockt
- Massimo Vitali
Photographers
1998-2003- Caroline Bach
- Kenza Boudour
- Dominique Degli Esposti
- Lin Delpierre
- Antoine Giacomoni
- Jan Lemitz
- André Mérian
- Manuel Salvat
- Fabio Sgroi
- Laurent Van der Stockt
- Bruno Boudjelal
- Jérôme Camilly
- Léa Eouzan
- Arno Gisinger
- Jean-François Joly
- Olivier Laban-Mattei
- Stéphanie Lacombe
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Publication
- Centre méditerranéen de la photographie (éd.), Images d’un territoire. Dix ans de commandes photographiques en Corse, Ajaccio, Éditions Albiana, 2005, 279 p.
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Paysages-Territoires (Landscapes-Territories)
1998-2002
The Paysages-Territoires mission is the result of the collaboration between artists and researchers in the Des territoires seminar of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (National School of Fine Arts) with the Direction régionale de l'environnement (DIREN) (Regional Environment Directorate) of Île-de-France. Between 1998 and 2002, twelve photographers worked on protected sites of the Île-de-France under the direction of William Hayon and Jean-François Chevrier.
Photographers
- Marie-Claire Ciavaldini
- Gérard Dalla Santa
- Frédéric Delesalle
- Donato Di Blasi
- Jean-Louis Elzéard
- Patrick Faigenbaum
- Suzanne Lafont
- Mikael Levin
- Paola Salerno
- Gilles Saussier
- Jean-Louis Schoellkopf
- Marc Pataut
Publication
- Chevrier Jean-François et Hayon William (dir.), Paysages territoires. L’Île-de-France comme métaphore, Marseille, Éditions Parenthèses, 2002, 427 p.
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Pôle image Haute-Normandie (Upper Normandy Image Center)
Since 2001
In 2001, Didier Mouchel, head of the photographic mission of Pôle image Haute-Normandie, initiated a program of long-term regional commissions under the heading "Paysages, territoires et socialization" (Landscapes, Territories, and Socialization). An artist-photographer is invited annually to create a work on the territory of Haute-Normandie. A selection of each artist's photographs is preserved in the Pôle's collection.
As of 2015, under the new name Centre photographique – Pôle image Haute-Normandie and under the direction of Raphaëlle Stopin, the commissioning program continues on an annual basis in the territory of the Normandy region.
Photographers
Website
Publications
- Chapin Jean-Luc, Il s’agit d’un pays familier, Évreux, Département de l’Eure / Rouen, Pôle image Haute-Normandie éd., 2005, 48 p.
- Chapin Jean-Luc, Liber – Arbres, écritures, Rouen, Pôle image Haute-Normandie éd., 2003, 23 p.
- Cuisset Thibaut, Une campagne photographique, texte de Gilles A. Tiberghien, Trézélan, Filigranes, 2009, 61 p.
- Davies John, Seine Valley, Cherbourg-Octeville, Le Point du jour / Rouen, Pôle image Haute-Normandie, 2002, 52 p.
- Di Fiore Patricia, Marges, Trézélan, Filigranes / Rouen, Pôle image Haute-Normandie, 2011, 69 p.
- Esser Elger, Nocturnes à Giverny, Munich, Schirmer / Mosel, 2012, 48 p.
- Fréger Charles, Bleus de travail, Rouen, POC Éditions, 2003, 112 p.
- Grimbert Benoît, Normandie. Paysages de la reconstruction, Cherbourg-Octeville, Le Point du jour, 2006, 114 p.
- Rifflet Maxence, Une route, un chemin. Sur la côte ouest de la Manche suivi de Boucles de la Seine, Cherbourg-Octeville, Le Point du jour, 2010, 164 p.
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Euroméditerranée
2002-2009
This project, realized between 2002 and 2009, was initiated jointly by the public urban development agency Euroméditerranée, the city of Marseilles, the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP)(National Center of Fine Arts), and the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur).
The principle aim of the mission involves inviting photographers to take a personal approach to photographing the areas undergoing change in the vicinity of the Euroméditerranée urban renewal construction sites. The prints are preserved in the contemporary art collection of the city of Marseilles.
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Clermont-Ferrand
Since 2004
In partnership with the École nationale supérieure d'architecture (National School of Architecture) of Clermont-Ferrand, the city has organized a photographic residency on the theme of "the City: its landscape, its environment, its inhabitants." Annually since 2004, a photographer has been invited to focus on the Clermont-Ferrand territory. The prints are deposited in the city's collection.
Photographers
Publications
- Baudelaire Éric, Site displacement / Déplacement de site, textes de Guillaume Désanges et Éric Baudelaire, Paris, Archibooks + Sautereau éditeur, 2008, 62 p.
- Bourguedieu Christophe, La Montagne, texte de Michel Poivert, Paris, Éditions Loco, 2012, 63 p.
- Cuisset Thibaut, Écarts, texte de Jean Attali, Paris, Éditions Loco, 2014.
- Davies John, Hidden River, texte d’Armelle Canitrot, Paris, Éditions Loco, 2013, 56 p.
- Ellena Véronique, L’Argent, texte de Florence Buttay, Montreuil-sur-Brèche, Diaphane éditions, 2010, 83 p.
- Filaire Anne-Marie, Extrêmes, texte de Bernard Chambaz, Clermont-Ferrand, Centre photographique de Clermont-Ferrand, 2015, 64 p.
- Fréger Charles, 2Nelson, textes de Bill Kouwenhoven, POC Éditions, 2005, 36 p.
- Kollar Martin, Cahier, Montreuil-sur-Brèche, Diaphane éditions, 2011, 39 p.
- Meunier Bertrand, Le Plateau, textes de Marion Duquerroy et Véronique Nahoum-Grappe, Clermont-Ferrand, Centre photographique de Clermont-Ferrand, 2014, 44 p.
- Nefzger Jürgen, Nocturnes, textes de Mathilde Roman et Nathalie Roux, Berlin, Hatje Cantz, 2008, 128 p.
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Retour en Lorraine (Returning to Lorraine)
2009
In 1979, during the violent strikes against the dismantlement of the factories in the Longwy mining region, Alex Jordan and Andre Lejarre, social activist photographers and graphic designers, produced their "concerned photographs."
Thirty years later, ten photographers of the Bar Floréal collective (founded in 1985) returned to Lorraine to assess this area left by the wayside of economic development.
Photographers
Publication
- Baudin Bernard, Bardot Jean-Christophe, Carlier Sophie et al., Retour en Lorraine. Le Bar Floréal. Photographie, texte de Dominique Gaessler, suivi d’un entretien avec Marcel Trillat et Michel Olmi, Paris, Trans Photographic Press, 2009, 144 p.
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France14
2006-2010
The project took root in 2006 at the Rencontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles whose artistic director that year was Raymond Depardon. Fourteen photographers formed an informal group to focus on the question of the national territory. Under the coordination of Catherine Baduel of the association Les yeux de la Terre, each member explored a unique photographic approach with the goal of proposing a social and geographical representation of the French territory.
The works were presented in 2010 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in the context of the exhibition "La France de Raymond Depardon."
Photographers
Publication
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France14, texte d’Anne Biroleau, Paris, Trans Photographic Press, 2010, 139 p.
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France(s) territoire liquide (France Liquid Territories)
2010-2014
Four photographers—Jérôme Brézillon, Frédéric Delangle, Cédric Delsaux, and Patrick Messina—launched the mission in 2010. Independent of any commission and working over the entire territory of France, they appropriated the legacy of the DATAR Photographic Mission, while at the same time focusing on contemporary photographic and landscape issues.
They recruited Paul Wombell as artistic director to ensure the editorial consistency of the totality of the work produced by the 43 photographers associated with the mission up through 2014. Promoting risk-taking, the visual experience, and research from unique points of view, the mission functioned as a true laboratory.
Photographers
- Guillaume Amat
- Brigitte Bauer
- Emmanuelle Blanc
- Guillaume Bonnel
- Aglaé Bory
- Michel Bousquet
- Jérôme Brézillon
- Elina Brotherus
- Thibault Brunet
- Jean-Philippe Carré-Mattei
- Julien Chapsal
- Florence Chevallier
- Beatrix von Conta
- Gilles Coulon
- François Deladerrière
- Léo Delafontaine
- Frédéric Delangle
- Cédric Delsaux
- Bertrand Desprez
- Yann de Fareins
- Anne Favret et Patrick Manez
- Olivia Froudkine
- Marion Gambin
- Sophie Hatier
- Claudia Imbert
Photographers
- Julien Magre
- Guillaume Martial
- Geoffroy Mathieu
- Patrick Messina
- Albin Millot
- Olivier Nord
- Antoine Picard
- Joffrey Pleignet
- Bernard Plossu
- Aude Sirvain
- Marie Sommer
- Bertrand Stofleth
- Ambroise Tézenas
- Laure Vasconi
- Émilie Vialet
- Pierre Witt
Website and YouTube
Publication
- France(s) territoire liquide, texte de Jean-Christophe Bailly, Paris, Seuil, 2014, 400 p.
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La France vue d’ici (France Seen from Here)
2014-2017
The project is sponsored by the festival ImageSingulières under the artistic direction of Gilles Favier, initiated by the association Cétàvoir, directed by Valérie Laquittant, and the online newspaper, Mediapart, created by Edwy Plenel. Its purpose is to create, distribute, and maintain a documentary collection of photographs on France, of the women and men living there between 2014 and 2017.
It is a collaborative project with a multidisciplinary selection committee consisting of photographers, journalists, and various specialists, as well as Internet users via crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. Twenty-four photographers were selected between October 2014 and April 2016 during four calls for candidates that also brought together researchers, teachers, journalists, artists, and association and institution leaders.
Photographers
- Nadège Abadie
- Paul Arnaud
- Pablo Baquedano
- Hervé Baudat
- Loïc Bonnaure
- Alexa Brunet
- Jacob Chetrit
- Jean-Robert Dantou
- Mathieu Farcy
- Bertrand Gaudillère
- Joseph Gobin
- Nanda Gonzague
- Raphaël Helle
- Yohanne Lamoulère
- Stéphane Lavoué
- Hervé Lequeux
- Florence Levillain
- Géraldine Millo
- Marion Pedenon
- Romain Philippon
- Alexandra Pouzet
- Anne Rearick
- Frédéric Stucin
- Flavio Tarquinio
- Patrice Terraz
- Vladimir Vasilev
Journalists
- François Gaertner, Catherine Le Gall, Catherine Monnet.
Website
Publication
- La France vue d’ici, Paris, Éditions de La Martinière, 2017, 336 p.
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And Now?
Current national photographic commissions and financial assistance for artistic creation
Current national photographic commissions
Apart from the commissions mentioned above and still in progress (Conservatoire du Littoral, Centre régional de photographie des Hauts-de-France, L'Observatoire photographique national du paysage, Centre méditerranéen de la photographie, Pôle image Haute Normandie, Résidence de Clermont Ferrand), several current national photography commissions are noted below. Additionally, it is important to point out numerous commissions and residency proposals emanating from private organizations. Given their quantity, the list here is by no means exhaustive. Two publications of the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) indicated below have more comprehensive listings.
National photographic commission "Réinventer Calais" (Reinventing Calais)
The photographic commission "Reinventing Calais" invited eight artist-photographers: Lotfi Benyelles, Claire Chevrier, Jean Larive, Élisa Larvego, Laurent Malone, André Mérian, Gilles Raynaldy, and Aimée Thirion. Their projects are in progress since January 2016.
The steering committee is composed of representatives of the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), of the association PEROU, Béatrice Didier, director of Point du Jour in Cherbourg, and Bruno Serralongue, artist.
This commission is in line with the activity of the association PEROU "[...] because it's a question of being attentive to the approach that we take, collectively, to Calais. Because it's a question of overturning foregone conclusions, and of ultimately cultivating the narrative of a global city, one that has been undermined by an iconography of the worst kind. Because it's a question of making room for this 'invisible city' comprised of the materials of constructions, of dreams, of relationships, of shops of all sorts, which in fact make the place what it is. Because it's a question of promoting a different political discourse, and of understanding finally the New Jungle of Calais as a 'tiers paysage' (third landscape)." Gilles Clément, President PEROU.
The result is an "Atlas d'une cité potentielle" (Atlas of a Potential City) a scalable Internet platform that opened in April 2016: https://reinventercalais.org/
→ List of recipientsNational photographic commission "Les Regards du Grand Paris" ("Looking at Greater Paris")
The Ateliers Médicis, in cooperation with the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), sponsors the national photographic commission Regards du Grand Paris. A ten-year span (2016–2026), at the rate of at least one commission of six photographers per year, was chosen for the development of this project, which provides new urban and social representations of Greater Paris.
Year 1, "Grand Paris – Ville Monde" ("Greater Paris – A Global City"), 2016
En 2016, for the first year of the national photographic commission Regards du Grand Paris, ten artist-photographers were selected and developed their projects around the theme Greater Paris–A Global City: Julie Balagué, Raphaël Dallaporta (in collaboration with the writer Philippe Vasset), Gabriel Desplanque, Patrizia Di Fiore, Julien Guinand, Karim Kal, Olivier Menanteau, Sandra Rocha, Bertrand Stofleth, and Chenxin Tang.
"These emerging and established photographers of Paris and elsewhere present their own unique take on the same cosmopolitan and varied space. Their Greater Paris is under construction: it is made up of political and architectural construction sites, of spaces being created and of others being revealed. But it is also organic, rustling, made of vales, of rivers and of forests." Olivier Meneux, director of Ateliers MédicisYear 2, "Translation : vers le même ou vers l'autre ?" ("Translation: towards the same or towards the other?"), 2017
With this year's theme, "Translation : vers le même ou vers l'autre ?", the Regards du Grand Paris features the organization of the contemporary city which no longer functions on the basis of a unique city center, but increasingly reinvents itself in the passages between multiple places and multiple worlds. The artists are invited to question the nature and the effects of these new ways of moving about. The commission is open to all forms of contemporary photographic practice.
Special attention will be given to projects proposing innovative production and distribution methods and to projects involving the inhabitants of the Greater Paris area.
The Selection Committee has chosen six projects. The winners are Camille Ayme, Hannah Darabi and Benoît Grimbert, Sylvain Gouraud, Gilberto Güiza-Rojas, Francis Morandini and Po Sim Sambath.
→ For more informationNational photographic commission "La jeunesse en France" (Youth in France)
The Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (Ministry of Culture and of Communication) invited photographers working in the broad field of the documentary image to embrace the theme "Youth in France" to capture the diversity of territories and to highlight the actors in this world in the making, through their cultural practices and their life experiences.
The purpose of this project, piloted by the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) and the association CéTàVOIR, in Sète, is to produce a documentary body of work on this challenging topic, as well as to energize contemporary creative and photographic activities.
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Artist residencies and financial assistance for artistic creationCNAP inventory of artist residencies
As part of its information mission to professionals and artists, the CNAP publishes in its collection "Guides de l'art contemporain" (Guides to Contemporary Art), 223 Résidences d'arts visuels en France (223 Visual Arts Residencies in France), a guide to residencies for artists, exhibition curators, art critics, art theorists, and art historians offered by public and private entities (institutions, local or regional authorities, associations, foundations, etc.) pursuing objectives of general interest. It contains essential practical information regarding residency programs and plans, and lists, as exhaustively as possible, such programs in France.
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140 private and public financial assistance programs for artists
140 aides privées et publiques en faveur des artistes is an inventory of offers of financial support for artists in France. The work was published in 2012 by the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) in its collection "Guides de l'art contemporain". This information tool lists artistic financial assistance programs sponsored by public and private sources. An update is announced.
→ Download (french)Financial assistance for artistic creation provided by collective authors' rights management organizations
An electronic database lists all cultural activities supported in 2016 by seventeen organizations for the collective management of authors, performers, producers, and publishers (ADAGP, ADAMI, ANGOA, ARP, CFC, PROCIREP, SACD, SACEM, SAIF, SAJE, SCAM, SCPP, SCELF, SEAM, SOFIA, SPEDIDAM, SPPF).
It presents along with the name of their beneficiaries, the amounts and the use, as indicated by law, of the sums allocated to support creative activities, promotion of live performances, development of artistic and cultural education, and training programs for creators and artists.
→ www.aidescreation.org
Missions
We are presenting here the French photographic missions featured in the exhibition as well as those that left their mark on this period because of their unique purpose. This list is not exhaustive; numerous art centers or places of residency have initiated similar projects. These missions cover the period 1984 to 2017 and are organized chronologically according to launch date. Some are still in progress. At the end of the list, you'll find other current missions and information on available residencies under the heading "And Now?."