Jaeger-LeCoultre partner of the Garry Winogrand exhibition

For the past 7 years, Jaeger-lecoultre has been proud to be associated with the Jeu de Paume’s approach and will once again be present as a partner of the “Garry Winogrand” exhibition presented in Paris in autumn 2014. Endowed with a visionary spirit for over 180 years, Jaeger-lecoultre supports the world of images and confirms its attachment to artistic creation in the world of photography and cinema.

Three-quarters of a century ago, the history of Jaeger-LeCoultre crossed paths with that of photography… An Englishman, Noël Pemberton Billing, set out to create a camera of unprecedented quality, bringing together all possible functions that would fit in a cigarette pack. He decided to entrust his project to Jaeger-LeCoultre! The result was one of the most incredible cameras of its time, the Compass. Three years of development were needed to perfect the 290 components of this camera, which caused a sensation with both its avant-garde design and its functions.

For Jaeger-LeCoultre, the art of time translates into a daily drive to perfect technical virtuosity and excellence. The world of fine watchmaking and the art of the image certainly require the same faculties: the eye, attention to detail, the perfecting of ancestral know-how combined with unceasing creativity and passion… both aim at the same goal: the emotion of discovery and questioning.

Jeu de Paume presents the first retrospective in twenty-five years of the great American photographer Garry Winogrand (1928-1984). A chronicler of post-war America, Winogrand is still poorly known, having left so much work to be done – at the time of his premature death – in archiving, developing and printing his photographs. However, he is without doubt one of the masters of American street photography, on a par with Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander and William Klein.
Famous for his photographs of New York and American life from the 1950s to the early 1980s, Winogrand sought to “discover what things look like when photographed”. Organized jointly by SFMOMA and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the “Garry Winogrand” exhibition brings together the artist’s most iconic images and previously unseen prints from his largely unexplored late-life archives, to offer a rigorous overview of his career and, for the first time, to embrace his entire career.
The photographs in the exhibition and in the catalog provide a vivid portrait of the artist, a chronicler of post-war America on a par with Norman Mailer and Robert Rauschenberg, who in the decades following the Second World War tirelessly documented an America torn between optimism and upheaval.

Nearly thirty years have passed since the last attempt to apprehend Winogrand’s career in its entirety. Benefiting from new research carried out by the curators for this project, the current exhibition offers a long-awaited re-examination of the photographer’s work.

Garry WinoGrand retrospective: October 14, 2014 to February 8, 2015Le Jeu de Paume : 1, place de la Concorde – 75008 Paris – 01 47 03 12 50 – www.jeudepaume.org

Opening hours
Tuesday (night-time): 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
Wednesday to Sunday: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Closed on Mondays

Prices
Full price €10 / Reduced price €7.5
Free admission: An ephemeral video library, Satellite programming; young people’s Tuesdays (last Tuesday of the month
from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. for students and under-26s); under-12s
Online ticketing on the Jeu de Paume website, with Fnac, Digitick and Ticketnet

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