Co-founder of the Magnum Agency, he has given its pedigree to photo journalism.
Two priorities define his style: proximity and movement. Thanks to him, fashion has come out into the street.
Daring choices map out his route and have made his unique look, establishing a subjective link with the subject.
Gypsies, lands of exile, lonely landscapes are the stuff his art is made of. A work that takes you out of time.
Poet of the quotidian, he is the marveled observer of the streets of Paris. Some of his images have become legends.
Dilly-dallying of a solitary walker: he pins down the beauty of things and landscapes.
Unexpected encounters, allusions, anecdotes, funny stories in every day life America.
Sharp traveller, he knows how to catch the symbolic images of a world in motion.
Far from being voyeuristic, his raw and blood-tinted images denounce social tragedies and urban violence.
Taking pictures of hospices, earth-bound life and landscape in order to challenge time.
Star photographer of European and American glossy magazines renowned for his provocative images of women and fashion.
His war photographs have laid a landmark in the international press.
Elements for mystery and investigation which are associated with a moving text. A work between testimony and fabrication.
Stages scenes of her life and that of her kith and kin. The work is set in the heart of darkness of New York's underground life.
Master in the art of super impression, his ghostly visions blur the boundaries between reality and imagination.
The world of fashion with its real fakes. Just a Polaroid to catch a glimpse of the fugitive.
Stages scenes and images of his photographic diary. With emotional instinct and love of women as a leading thread in the narrative.
Repetitive signals of the ordinary: he builds on abstract pictures reflecting his vision of social structures.
Unfinished constructions, wastelands...: his photos are "slow instant shots" which give the best part to the viewer.
A journey through series: seascapes, wax dummies, cinemas... A willful research of human memory and primeval states of mind.
After having worked in the classic field of photography, this American artist looks into the new links that new technology has created in relation to images.
His work, built around the principles of photographic pictures, reconciles in a critical manner with the tradition of figurative painting.
Paragon of apparent cold and clear-cut objectivity, he takes the lead in the young generation of European photographers.
Borrowing images wholesale from magazine-pages, television screens and cinema stills, Baldessari reflects on the nature and impact of media images. The way he assembles and juxtaposes them jolts the viewer into deconstructing the visual and textual signs with which we are constantly bombarded via the media.
Bernd Becher (born August 20, 1931 in Siegen; died June 22, 2007 in Rostock) and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (born September 2, 1934 in Potsdam) were a German artist couple, best known for their photographic images of industrial buildings.
Around themes of identity, memory, absence and death, Boltanski has built up a body of work within the field of contemporary art, in which the formal approach cannot be dissociated from the emotion provoked.
Fleischer's penchant for separating strands and multiple experimentation is at the centre of his work, in which very elaborate systems bring mirrors, illusion and diverse reconstitutions into play.
John Hilliard has adopted a conceptual approach to modern photography that questions the norms of photographic language and practice. His work constantly probes the process of making images: What is light? Can the film freeze time? Is the subject what we see? Can our vision of reality do without fiction?
Roni Horn's journey in photography is that of a highly unusual initiation. It takes its source in graphic design, explores sculpture, question writing, then returns to the essential: the subtle grammar of signs and images. Iceland is his subject of predilection, the entry point into his relationship with the world as well as the metaphor of her work: life is made of cycles in which time, nature, death, the visible and invisible call and answer each other.
Focussing on the blemishes of Western society, Martin Parr's lens takes aim at hyper-consumerism, packaged leisure and boredom in a derisive slant on our ways of life. His work deciphers social codes using a particularly subversive rule: lucidity is inseparable from humor.
Georges Rousse is the magician, the artist, of the point of view. Deserted locations that he takes over and transforms are the strange settings for a photographic journey in which the mind discovers the power to wander and meditate in space. His work is that of a sage setting out to conquer the invisible.
Struth strips bare the structures of our cities, lives and dreams. His photographs reveal the relationship between urban space, social group and the representation of the sub-conscious.
Abstracts, portraits, landscapes or still lives, Wolfgang Tillmans engages every traditional photographic form in order to revolutionize approach and perception. Beyond its documentary value, his work reveals the true nature of viewpoint: an invisible line linking the artist's inner landscape to his or her subject without failing to impact on the viewer.
