Exhibitions, publications, films and conferences are on the program of Pierre-Jean Amar this season. Nature. Body. Shadow. These three words are an attempt to summarize fifty years of work in photography. To escape the snares of his oppressive mother, Amar took up photography, which he practiced as an amateur until meeting Willy Ronis at the Faculté des Lettres d’Aix-en-Provence.

He only began photographing professionally in 1977. He will be included in the nine lives described by Jacques Terrasa in the text accompanying the exhibition, that helps better understand the 130 photographs in the exhibition and the photographer’s career as a whole.

Incidentally, the prints are mainly vintage silver ones made by the artist himself. The more recent works (2005-2012) are pigmented inkjet prints, also made by the artist. “For this exhibition I have chosen only vintage silver prints in their original forms (artist proofs) of 10x15cm and 50x60cm, along with some very large-format photographs (nudes, my son Aurélien and architecture), all of which had been the subject of exhibitions in their time.” 


Bernard Perrine

Read the full text of this article in the French version of Le Journal.

Exhibitions, Restrospective
Photographs 1962-2012
La nature, le corps, l'ombre
Fom January 22th to March 4th, 2013
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La nature, le corps, l'ombre
Photographs by Pierre-Jean Amar
Text by Jacques Terrasa
Éditions le bec en l'air
160 pages format 220x280mm
140 photographs