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As part of the Rencontres d'Arles, the expo SHOOT! PHOTOGRAPHY EXISTENTIAL shows pictures of the series "Pictures of Me, Myself Into shoot a picture" of Rudolf Steiner
In the years following World War I, a curious attraction appeared at fairgrounds and Luna Park photo shooting . When the shooter hits the target at its center, it triggered a camera that instantly took him in action. Rather than a cone of chocolates, a balloon or a teddy bear, he was earning his own portrait shooting. Value highly metaphorical shooting Photographic escape anyone. The device relies on a strange face-to-face meeting between the shooting and photography, two twin practices as evidenced by their common vocabulary: shoot, aim, reload, etc.. In this duel to the death yet born an image. Looking after her portrait shot, the shooter is in turn set plays. That on himself he has become fire. It is likely that the designers have also shot photographic bet on the desire of their clients to be a box in their ego, image proxy. Temptation to duel with oneself, to become his own emotion executor, vertigo of self-destruction ... just to see. The various portraits of Sartre shooting photographic suggest that the author of Being and Nothingness was not insensitive to this form of entertainment. And for good reason: the device does not he amazing opportunity to incarnate photographically while annihilating symbolically, that is to say an eminently existential form of photography? Shoot! Photography existential traces the history of photography shot in popular use, as in its appropriation by the artists. The exhibition brings together some of the finest examples of photographic shots from several private collections. Erik Kessels this extraordinary series of portraits of Ria Van Dyke who, since 1936, is regularly photograph in a shooting gallery. Besides the portrait of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, the exhibition also offers photographic shots of Paul Eluard, Jean Cocteau, Federico Fellini, Francois Truffaut, Robert Delpire, Gilles Deleuze, Juliette Greco, but also some of great photographers of the twentieth century: Man Ray and Lee Miller, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Brassai and Robert Frank. In recent years, young artists like Sylvia Emilia Pitoiset Ballhaus or are fascinated by this device to the disturbing almost sculptural and spatial relationship it establishes between the shooter, the target image and viewer. Others, like Christian Marclay, Oscar Bony, Patrick Zachmann, Agnes Geoffray interested or more to the violence of the gesture: do or see an image, it's always the risk of coming into the line of sight. All are part of a tradition where the shot creates the work, begun in early 1960 by Niki de Saint Phalle and perpetuated today by Jean-François Lecourt or Rudolf Steiner. The exhibition ends with the reconstruction of an authentic shooting gallery where the visitor photographic pourra, lui même, à l'étrange goûter plaisir de se tirer le portrait.
Clément Chéroux, commissaire de l'exposition. http://www.rencontres-arles.com/A09/C.aspx?VP3=CMS&ID=A09P1146
Here's the link to the festival ... http://www.rencontres-arles.com/A09/C.aspx?VP3=CMS&ID=A09P1162
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