The hero of the new session of the cycle will be French photographer Sophie Calle. PhotoSoul: the greatest photographers in the history of photography, It will take place on Wednesday, May 24 at 20:15 in the Miguel Hernández room of the UA Alicante Town University Venue.
Like previous sessions of the loop Henri Cartier-BressonChema Madoz and Nan Goldin will be taught by photographer and writer Pepe Calvo with a long history. Its trajectory in exhibition and publishing since 1975, With exhibitions in galleries, museums and art centers in Madrid, Barcelona, u200bu200bValencia and other cities of Spain.
His work, for example, is part of important museum collections. IVAM, Charleroi Museum of Photography, Belgium; Museum of Photography (Donostia), Jenkins-Romero Collection (New York), ROTTEN (Alicante), University of Colorado (USA) and Gravina Museum of Fine Arts, among others.
Instead, with the title woman’s intimate areaA video will be projected with Calle’s most outstanding work (50 photos) and a debate will be held with the participants.
“Non-ritual photos don’t belong in my area. I don’t take pictures outside of my projects. I don’t keep my camera in my bag, I don’t usually take portraits of my friends. I just take the camera. To express an idea. And only then do I realize that photography is justified, even if it’s not a good idea,” he says. Sophie Street.
The photographer is obsessed with the gaze of others and of himself. In addition to the need to know about the other, as shown in the series “What are others looking at when they see me looking” Venice Suite.
American author Paul Auster in his novel Leviathan Inspires the character of Maria Turner in Sophie Calle.