The show Le Bestiaire imaginaire, l'animal dans la photographie de 1850 à nos jours (An Imaginary Bestiary, Animals in Photography from 1850 till today) gathers more than 150 photographs of real or imaginary animals, from some of the major 19th century photographers and international contemporary artists, each moved by a similar idea : the place of the animal in photography. Animals are extremely present in literature and popular culture but also in the arts. Their enigmatic nature has for long fascinated and inspired artists who have used them as models from the very early stages of photographic practise. The images that constitute this exhibition are an invitation to reverie, allowing us to reflect upon the complex relationships that we entertain with the animal species, altogether so close and so distant.

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This exhibition is produced with the support of Conseil régional Rhône-Alpes and Conseil général de la Haute Savoie.

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artists : Berenice Abbott, Ottomar Anschütz, Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand, Werner Bischof, Nick Brandt, Brassaï, Léon Crémière, Bertrand Desprez, André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri, William Eggleston, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Charles Famin, Carole Fékété, Tim Flach, Adolphe Giraudon, William Ingram, Allan Jenkins, Vaclav Jiru, Gertrude Käsebier, Les Krims, Chrystèle Lerisse, Didier Massard, Lisette Model, Yoshiko Murakami, Eadweard Muybridge, Herbert G. Ponting, Robert Rauschenberg, Olivier Richon, Henry Alexis Tournier, Hamid Sardar-Afkhami, Matthias Schäfer, Jeanloup Sieff, Patrick Taberna, Mikel Uribetxeberria, Yumiko Utsu, William Wegman, Maarten Wetsema, Nicolas Wilmouth, Joel Peter Witkin, Ylla.

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lenders : A Galerie, Paris ; Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris ; Galeria IB, Madrid ; Galerie Bendana Pinel, Paris ; Salto Ulbeek, Belgique ; Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid ; Bridgeman Giraudon, Paris ; Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge ; Commerce Graphics, New York ; G/P Gallery, Tokyo ; Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris; Magnum Gallery, Paris ; Famille Lunn, Paris and New York ; Keitelman Gallery, Brussels ; Marc Kelman ; Young Gallery, Brussels ; Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris ; Barbara Sieff ; Galerie Van Kranendonk, La Haye ; Ibid projects, London and the artists.

 

curators : Caroline Bouchard and Baudoin Lebon

publisher : Skira / Flammarion