Peter Hujar and the brief history of “Newspaper”, by Marcelo Gabriel Yáñez

Abigail Solomon-Godeau: The Austere Art of Peter Hujar

I met Peter Hujar three or four times in the last year of his life, in 1987. I did not know he was ill, but he had been diagnosed with AIDS that year and died ten months later. I forget how I first learned about his remarkable work; probably someone told me about it because it was rarely exhibited. And certainly, his photos of masturbating men or close-ups of erect penises were rarely encountered in photography galleries and exhibitions. I was then in the process of curating an exhibition entitled Sexual Difference: Both Sides of the Camera for which I chose seven of his pictures, two of them currently on view at the Jeu de Paume’s exhibition Peter Hujar: Speed of Life

Natacha’s bath

A photograph by Marc Pataut, commented by the philosopher Marie José Mondzain.

A glance at the summer exhibitions, by Quentin Bajac

The Jeu de Paume is introducing new opening hours as its Franco-American summer season kicks off, with three monographic exhibitions respectively devoted to Sally Mann, Marc Pataut, and Ben Thorp Brown.

Why this photo ?

Luigi Ghirri, L’Île-Rousse, 1976. Why this photo, which doesn’t show anything decisive or noteworthy?

Joëlle Zask : “The collapse of the American farmer, by Dorothea Lange”

While going through the exhibition at Jeu de Paume (2018), one can be struck by the specific representation of the farmer which emanates from Dorothea Lange’s photographic mission for the FSA.

Dorothea Lange’s drought-abandoned house

A photograph commented by the philosopher Etienne Helmer.

Shelley Rice: Shifting Spaces, Impossible Borders. Ana Mendieta and Liliana Porter.

How Mendieta and Porter explored the interstices between fixed spaces, homelands and national identities, to invent their own country – By Shelley Rice.

Meeting Point #4 Dork Zabunyan & Pierre Alain Trévelo

It is vital to look back on Gordon Matta-Clark’s work, among other reasons, to highlight little-known facets of a shape-shifting oeuvre.

Meeting Point #3: Dork Zabunyan & Marie Voignier